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Dobbs Decision Leaves Roberts and the Media as Biggest Losers
AMAC ^ | 26 Jun, 2022 | Seamus Brennan

Posted on 06/27/2022 5:31:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 06/27/2022 5:31:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 06/27/2022 5:31:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Still protecting the leaker, is Roberts.


3 posted on 06/27/2022 5:37:30 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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A rather simplistic and overly racialist view of the Taney decision ( which went 7-2) but interesting.


4 posted on 06/27/2022 5:39:21 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: ComputerGuy
“ Still protecting the leaker, is Roberts.‘

Roberts, or his staff, may very well have been the leaker.

5 posted on 06/27/2022 5:50:00 AM PDT by circlecity
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Robert’s has a lot of skeletons in his chamber er I mean closet.


6 posted on 06/27/2022 5:53:57 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: circlecity

The prime suspect.


7 posted on 06/27/2022 5:54:36 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: silverleaf
I have read a number of books on the supreme court including the one written by Sandra Day O'Connor after she retired.

They all have the common theme of admitting that life in the DC bubble HEAVILLY influences their prospective over time.

O'Connor even admits that the gay clerks (such nice, hardworking boys) altered her views and those of her successor Justice Kennedy over the issue of gay marriage.

The legitimate issues that they raised (such as partner visits to hospitals) could have been addressed in a far less radical way (such as civil unions) than the solution which the supremes, colored by their long life in the DC bubble, ultimately imposed.

I believe that this was part of the reason that supreme court justices were once expected to serve three months every year as circuit judges elsewhere in the country just to keep them out of the DC bubble.

8 posted on 06/27/2022 5:58:17 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MtnClimber
After NYSRPA v. Bruen and Dobbs v. Jackson Women's, the legacy of the Roberts court has just taken turn that Roberts himself will not be happy about.
9 posted on 06/27/2022 5:58:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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prospective = PERspective. Sorry.


10 posted on 06/27/2022 5:59:10 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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First, there is no evidence whatsoever that Roberts “sought to alter” the draft report.

If you read the draft, and the final, the only thing that happened was that a) Alito directly responded to the dissents in detail, and b) Roberts’s concurrence, which I examine at length in Today’s News at www.uncoverdc.com, was extensive. These both take an exceptional amount of time to write. Alito had to look at every case the dissenters cited, and then find his own case law.

So I think Roberts was far too busy on his concurrence to bother trying to change minds, which he knew wasn’t going to happen anyway. If ACB and Kavanaugh, who HAD THEIR LIVES THREATENED and had stalkers outside their homes, weren’t moved by that, they sure weren’t gonna be moved by little Johnny’s petitions.


11 posted on 06/27/2022 6:08:43 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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Do you have a current guess as to who the leaker was or who the leaker worked for?


12 posted on 06/27/2022 6:11:20 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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Everyone knew Roberts was a fake conservative and everyone knows this decision hurt the power of the national media to control minds with one message. Whenever the decisions are moved from national to local, it’s bad for Dems/media.


13 posted on 06/27/2022 6:13:20 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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“Dobbs Decision Leaves Roberts and the Media as Biggest Losers”

A ridiculous headline. Neither Roberts nor Media are in the contest. The contest is between citizen voters.

Furthermore, the media is making lots of money as the pubic is gobbling up the reporting on this controversial subject.


14 posted on 06/27/2022 6:16:17 AM PDT by cymbeline
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Yes. I’m almost sure it was Sotomayor’s clerk, but certainly she knew about it, which is why no one wants to do anything.

Actually, though, the leak probably did us a big favor, because it helped spread out the “rage” over a period of weeks. I think if the decision had just “come down,” the protests would have been worse. As it is, this is old news.

Don’t forget today or tomorrow we will likely get a USSC decision on global warming that won’t be pretty for the gubment. It’s the greenweenies’ turn to go nuts. Oh, and don’t forget the prayer/praying coach case. That could be fun too.


15 posted on 06/27/2022 6:22:20 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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“Robert’s has a lot of skeletons in his chamber er I mean closet.”

I thought he kept them in a safe deposit box at the Bank of Malta.


16 posted on 06/27/2022 6:26:37 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: cymbeline

Here’s some good news:

Since 2004, the U.S. has lost more than 2,000 newspapers, according to the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, leaving many cities and towns without reliable, local news coverage known as “news deserts.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2021/local-news-deserts-expanding/


17 posted on 06/27/2022 7:05:14 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: LS
Actually, though, the leak probably did us a big favor, because it helped spread out the “rage” over a period of weeks. I think if the decision had just “come down,” the protests would have been worse. As it is, this is old news.

Possibly, but it also gave the rioters time to organize.

18 posted on 06/27/2022 7:06:27 AM PDT by libertylover (Democrats are as determined to kill innocent people as the Nazis.)
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To: ComputerGuy

Robert’s is a fart in the wind and I also think he’s the leaker


19 posted on 06/27/2022 7:08:55 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: Vigilanteman

Sandra Day O’Connor was a mediocre Justice chosen only because Ronnie promised a woman Justice and hired a political hack.


20 posted on 06/27/2022 7:12:29 AM PDT by Clemenza (In event of a Civil War, a face diaper is a great way to spot the enemy)
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