Major decision. Gorsuch and Roberts use faux textualism to achieve the result they desire. The usual four leftists join in the charade.
Does this now require employers to query employees about their sex lives in order to prove that they don’t discriminate?
Major decision. Gorsuch and Roberts use faux textualism to achieve the result they desire. The usual four leftists join in the charade.
But but but “Trump judges” will save us!
Counting “Trump judge” chickens was always a fools errand given the ideological unreliability of GOP nominees historically. I didn’t expect such a major back stab from Gorsuch so soon but here we are.
Have you read the opinion?
I thought not. It’s ~150 pages long.
Good grief.
I wont typically defend Roberts, I was done with him after Obamacare in 2012, but there is the possibility that the reason he ends up on the liberal side on some of these 6-3 decisions is because as the Chief, whenever he’s in the majority he gets to choose who writes the opinion. It may be the case that he knew he was losing Gorsuch and decided to have Gorsuch actually write it instead of one of the court’s liberals. So although I agree that Roberts is a complete squish, it’s possible that he’s just making strategic decisions rather than completely abandoning any underlying principles he may have.