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DID ROBERTS GIVE IN TO OBAMA'S BULLYING?
Breitbart.com ^ | 6/28/2012 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 06/28/2012 1:10:37 PM PDT by nerdgirl

As legal scholars study the Supreme Court's decision in the Obamacare case, more and more are concluding that Justice Anthony Kennedy's dissenting opinion, striking down the law in its entirety, was once the majority opinion--and that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote at a late stage. If so, it would appear that the Chief Justice may have succumbed to the bullying meted out by President Barack Obama, who attacked the Court in the aftermath of oral arguments in March, when Obamacare seemed headed for certain defeat.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; obamacare; roberts; scotus; zerocare
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To: circlecity

I give him a bit more credit than that. He’s voted conservative the vast majority of the time, and doesn’t strike me as a big social butterfly.

I think doing this pained the guy, which is why it’s worth even talking about right now. The comment that he didn’t think the court needed to be cleaning up the mess that that the legislature created seems like it could be closer to the mark.


41 posted on 06/28/2012 1:39:09 PM PDT by nerdgirl
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To: stockpirate

” I have lost respect for Roberts and the court, they IMHO are just as corrupt as the rest of Washington and the media.

Behold the New World Order, funded on the backs of conservatives everywhere. “

Forced healthcare, by threat of jack-booted thug IRS agents.

National bankruptcy

Rotten healthcare

This may be the end for the USA, save for a civil war.


42 posted on 06/28/2012 1:39:45 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: nerdgirl
I think doing this pained the guy,

Not nearly as much as it will pain the rest of us.

43 posted on 06/28/2012 1:40:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Thanks for the picture. Of the several pictures I have seen of him today I think he has either become mentally ill or he has been using some happy powder.
44 posted on 06/28/2012 1:42:54 PM PDT by Jay Redhawk
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To: iopscusa

Now we need a capable candidate ~


45 posted on 06/28/2012 1:47:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Aria

There was no legit threat in an election year. The Chief Anus Roberts is a liberal this can not be doubted at this point.


46 posted on 06/28/2012 1:47:38 PM PDT by OldGoatCPO
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To: nerdgirl; All
Chris Matthews, mere moments after the decision came down, seem remarkably unsurprised by it, and oddly said:
I think John Roberts sat down - with his wife - and said 'let's make the moral decision here'".
Huh? Does anyone know the deal with his wife? Liberal, like Ted Olson's wife? Or something else? Some have mentioned the oddity of his blonde-haired blue-eyed children that his wife claims they adopted from "Latin America" but about who they refuse to answer any questions. Is Roberts gay? Perhaps they have some photos?
47 posted on 06/28/2012 1:51:16 PM PDT by montag813
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To: dfwgator

“I think doing this pained the guy”.

Not nearly as much as it will pain the rest of us.

You have hit this one out of the park!!!


48 posted on 06/28/2012 1:57:26 PM PDT by marygam (#Hurry November 2012, we might not make it#)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

OK, all that said,where does the people and the country go next?


49 posted on 06/28/2012 1:58:19 PM PDT by wax wing
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To: wax wing

I am not optimistic. Boehner and McConnell run anywhere from useless to being part of the problem.

A number of FReepers see this as a blessing. I don’t. Romney strikes me as Caspar Milquetoast,and if he loses, I see the country going to hell in a hand basket. It is already over 50% there.


50 posted on 06/28/2012 2:03:53 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Yes.


51 posted on 06/28/2012 2:06:04 PM PDT by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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To: wax wing

I could care less about the people, they’re the ones who voted in the Marxist Kenyan in the first place.


52 posted on 06/28/2012 2:07:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nerdgirl

They’ve had him by the short hairs since the multiple swearing ins of the usurper. Just what happened behind those closed doors? Whatever it was, it was intentional that he be a party of it and now they own him.


53 posted on 06/28/2012 2:16:13 PM PDT by bgill
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To: ContraryMary
The majority opinion did state that it is not up to the Court to save the American people from the results of their electoral decisions.

Then he is saying that the Supreme Court has no purpose. Congress passes a Slavery Act again? Not our problem to fix, you voted for them!

54 posted on 06/28/2012 2:52:10 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Kaosinla
Although not having the power to order a recusal, I don’t believe he once mentioned Kagan’s conflict of interest.

I recall a lot of reasoned commentary here at the time that that suggested the fix was in.

55 posted on 06/28/2012 2:54:36 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: nerdgirl

Maybe Valerie Jarret had something on him, and had him by the “short & curlys.”

Mark


56 posted on 06/28/2012 3:01:01 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: nerdgirl
It could've happened. FDR successfully bulled the Supreme Court over his New Deal policies. Look up the "switch in time that saved nine," a reference to Owen J Roberts (no relation to John Roberts) and FDR's threat to "pack the court."

Like it's ideological FDR ancestor, this thuggish regime knows how to get its way.

57 posted on 06/28/2012 3:03:02 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: ZULU
BUT the Obamabastard MAY have suggested very strongly that he would attempt to PACK the SCOTUS a la FDR if they didn’t capitulate on this one issue.

That would have been an idle threat, as you can't create additional judgeships without an act of Congress, which requires House approval. You could not get something like that through Harry Reid's Senate, as too many of them are up for election, and it could be filibustered. So, that is not it.

Roberts just caved. It takes a special kind of bull-headed stubbornness to not give in eventually to the DC establishment. Thank God for people like Scalia, Thomas and (so far) Alito. What's interesting is that Kennedy is getting MORE conservative. I think O'Connor was the main reason he kept turning, and with her gone, Scalia has more influence with him.

58 posted on 06/28/2012 6:55:27 PM PDT by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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To: nerdgirl; Lurking Libertarian; JDW11235; Clairity; TheOldLady; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; ...

FReepmail me to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the SCOTUS ping list.

59 posted on 06/29/2012 10:55:46 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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