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Roberts's Rules (pretty much explains his decision...)
The Atlantic ^ | January, 2007 | JEFFREY ROSEN

Posted on 07/01/2012 4:55:52 PM PDT by nerdgirl

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For anybody still wondering "WHY DID THIS MAN DO THIS!!!" This article from 2007 gives you all of the explanation you'll ever need. Like it or not, this is who Justice Roberts is, and always was. For better and for worse...
1 posted on 07/01/2012 4:55:53 PM PDT by nerdgirl
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Roberts will never make a worse decision than the one we saw last week. To bankrupt this country, trample individual freedom, and expand federal government power without apparent limit with a single vote - that’s an accomplishment that will never be topped.


2 posted on 07/01/2012 5:01:17 PM PDT by Pollster1 (A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
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To: nerdgirl

Sorry this got posted twice, back button problem.


3 posted on 07/01/2012 5:01:39 PM PDT by nerdgirl
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"In particular, Roberts declared, he would make it his priority, as Marshall did, to discourage his colleagues from issuing separate opinions. “I think that every justice should be worried about the Court acting as a Court and functioning as a Court, and they should all be worried, when they’re writing separately, about the effect on the Court as an institution.” "

So, Roberts went off and wrote his own RobertsCareTax opinion while the two factions also wrote their own dissenting opinions?

Good job John.

4 posted on 07/01/2012 5:02:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Yes I think the decision surely sucked.

But part of my quest since Thursday has been to understand the WHY of it, and even though I hate the decision, I think now I have some idea why he did it.


5 posted on 07/01/2012 5:03:31 PM PDT by nerdgirl
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To: Paladin2

Very good point!


6 posted on 07/01/2012 5:04:52 PM PDT by nerdgirl
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Ah - the old “Reaching across the aisle” in other words. How very special.


7 posted on 07/01/2012 5:07:20 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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Yep, lots of warning signs in this article.

If that CBS News report from earlier today is accurate though, he pretty much through his much cherished collegiality with Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito out onto the rubbish heap.

8 posted on 07/01/2012 5:08:48 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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9 posted on 07/01/2012 5:08:48 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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"Another reason for Rehnquist’s success as a chief justice, Roberts said, was his temperament—namely, that he knew who he was and had no inclination to change his views simply to court popularity."

Stike Two....

10 posted on 07/01/2012 5:11:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Roberts did this because it is a socialist/statist/marxist. Same Reason Obama, Pelosi, Reid did it.


11 posted on 07/01/2012 5:13:08 PM PDT by rurgan (Sunset all laws at 4 years.China is destroying U.S. ability to manufacture,makes everything)
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"Roberts approvingly quoted the observation of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes that “Marshall’s preeminence was due to the fact that he was John Marshall.” If Roberts succeeds, his success will be due to the fact that he is John Roberts. "

Roberts is not going to become another Marshall. More likely to become another John Boner.

12 posted on 07/01/2012 5:18:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: nerdgirl

Interesting article, thanx for posting.


13 posted on 07/01/2012 5:20:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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14 posted on 07/01/2012 5:22:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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My husband doesn’t understand why I am still reading about this, much less freeping about it! Thinks I am wasting energy and spinning my wheels. But I didn’t know enough about Roberts a week ago to have seen this coming, so I was just perplexed and mad...now I’m just mad.


15 posted on 07/01/2012 5:26:20 PM PDT by nerdgirl
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16 posted on 07/01/2012 5:26:37 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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That is ridiculous and makes you look stupid for saying it.


17 posted on 07/01/2012 5:29:02 PM PDT by nerdgirl
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Pure idiocy!

He is supposed to defend constitutional principles and nothing else.

18 posted on 07/01/2012 5:30:09 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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misChief inJustice John Robs US.
19 posted on 07/01/2012 5:30:40 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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So if the reports are true why did he change his mind


20 posted on 07/01/2012 5:33:28 PM PDT by uncbob
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