Trying to ensure that the SCOTUS is or is not perceived in any particularly partisan way is NEVER any way to rule on a decision. Its the CONSTITUTION, STUPID!
Roberts has appeared as a strict constitutionalist to me in the past so I’m willing to give him the benefit of a doubt. However, what I don’t understand, is how the other’s on the court whom I consider constitutionalist voted differently than Roberts. I just can’t get my head around it.
We don’t respect the Court, the Congress, or the President. So what? If the court suddenly needs to present itself like politicians, then we should give them term limits too. The only point of giving them lifetime appointments is to help them remain apolitical. Well, they’ve given that up, so lets limit the amount of time they can keep screwing up.
The Republican Media is suddenly in love with their new found “silver linings” from this case. Every pundit wants to invent their own silver lining. Boehner has scheduled a repeal vote for 7/9/2012. I’m betting that if the establishment keeps medicating itself with silver linings there will never be another repeal vote; not in 2012, not in 2013.
What do you mean you can’t undertand how the other Constitutionalist judges voted differently than Roberts? There were four conservative judges who wanted to completely repeal the law: Scalia, Alito, Thomas and Kennedy.
Where Kennedy was the one we were worried about bailing..it was actually the Chief justice himself who failed us and joined the lib judges to make it a five four decision.
The others, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagen and Breyer are card carrying Libs and voted for for all things anti American/anti Constitution as they always do.