Roberts's Rules (pretty much explains his decision...)

The Atlantic ^ | January, 2007 | JEFFREY ROSEN

[reefdiver]

He was against it, then switched. What was He offered or promised?

[uncbob]

Seems he came to believe that the political legitimacy of the Court was being called into question.

Based on what--the court members were all legitimately appointed

[jonno]

Being optimistic, I am beginning to think he was planting a poison pill by declaring it a tax...

Essentially, this has been my assertion since the decision was announced.

For the sake of the republic, I hope we're right...

[jonno]

...Roberts screwd us, ok, period...

Too early to tell IMHO.

Chin up buckaroo!

[Kakaze]

In the patriot's view, the most successful chief justices help uphold the integrity of the United States Constitution and limit its interpretation strictly to the original intent of its Framers.

We have a Chief Justice, who cares more about building his legacy in the media, then he does through his duty.

The Chief Justice is not a man of integrity, he is not an "Oath keeper"

[Leo Carpathian]

He woke up with horses head in his bed courtesy of Kenyan.

[LongWayHome]

We can agree to disagree:) I woud like to see a constitutional admendment to reverse what Roberts did concerning taxing non-activity.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “One story I saw stated that the Obamabots got some info that indicated that Roberts cut some corners when he adopted his children from somewhere in South America. That and other threats was all it took for him to bend over and grab his ankles!” <<

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That’s called “Putting the country first.”

He made sure that the country got screwed before he does.

[Ramius]

I will now cash in my defense of Harriet Miers as being not all that bad. I’ll bet she would have thrown out Obamacare.

Any conservative angry about Roberts’ decision, then, owes GW Bush an apology for all the crap he got.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

In Heller the opinion of the Court was delivered by Scalia.
That said, Heller upheld the 2nd Amendment over the DC ban, ergo Fed > DC = Fed won.

[Cyropaedia]

One of the correspondents, who covers the Supreme Court, said that she had never seen Kennedy as angry as he was this past Thursday morning.

Ever.

[vbmoneyspender]

Roberts voted in favor of Heller and Heller held that gun bans in areas controlled by the feds are unconstitutional. Heller further held that individuals have a 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms. How on God’s green earth do those rulings expand the power of the federal gov’t?

[jonno]

Agreed!

[Tucker39]

Yes, I was thinking when I hit POST, when HE bent over, WE are the ones who got screwed! Did you notice, every photo they show of him has that same smirk on his face?!

[353FMG]

Roberts — Bush’s fault.

[uncbob]

I will now cash in my defense of Harriet Miers as being not all that bad. I’ll bet she would have thrown out Obamacare.

Alito replaced Miers not Roberts

[Paladin2]

Strike

[Paladin2]

Roberts is a Statist in favor of at least maintaining Federal Power over the States and the peasants.

[freedomfiter2]

I think now I have some idea why he did it.

I’m sticking with the stupid or evil explaination. The dereliction of duty for philosophical reasons excuse is just another version of the stupid explaination.

[freedomfiter2]

Roberts said, that personal trust in the chief justice’s lack of an ideological agenda was very important,

The concept that the plain reading of the US Constittion is the law of the land isn’t an ideological agenda.