Posted on 07/03/2012 10:49:40 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
(snip) Some liberals contend that Roberts’s surprise crossover on the health care law has given him a free hand to craft and sign onto a slew of conservative opinions next year without suffering much of a public drubbing from Democrats and the press. With one major case, Roberts may have inoculated himself and the court against charges of partisanship.
The chief will have plenty of chances to make his mark in the next term. Already, the justices are planning to delve into the politically charged issue of affirmative action. They may well add hot-button disputes over same-sex marriage rights and voter ID laws. And the court could even take up the constitutionality of the landmark law Congress passed nearly half a century ago to guarantee African-Americans equal access to the polls: the Voting Rights Act.
(snip) George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen was even more blunt about Roberts’s new leeway.
“He has now increased his political capital that will allow him to continue to move the Court in a conservative direction in cases involving affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act, both of which he may well strike down next year by 5-4 votes,” Rosen wrote in The New Republic.
(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com ...
OK... I like that thought.
He is still a spineless obama kissing weasel..
I am still in shock over it. Especially since we now know that he wrote the majority of the dissent.
This is like saying Roberts gave us Cancer the better to trim hangnails at a later date.
John Roberts shoots America in the head and now he will “rebound”?? Screw that traitor to the US Constitution. I hope that scumbag Roberts uses his vacation to have his epilepsy meds recalibrated and his brain damage assessed.
Via Real Clear Politics, Michael Gerson, WaPo John Roberts' Arrogance
Gerson said - "Roberts ..., concerned primarily about the place of the Supreme Court in American political life."
Rather than "focused on the rigorous application of the words of the founding document. In this view, the meaning of the text is primary, whatever the political consequences of applying it." as preferred by the dissenting justices.
I am rather shocked.
In all your smaller transactions with others, keep your dealings both honest and transparent. They will never suspect the roundhouse fetch of a club upside the head when it comes.
Thanks, John Roberts, for that most sobering episode.
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