CBS News: Roberts Was Going to Overturn ObamaCare But Changed His Mind

News Buster.org ^ | July 1, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

CBS News broke a huge story on Sunday's Face the Nation concerning the Supreme Court's Thursday ruling on ObamaCare.

According to Jan Crawford, CBS legal and political correspondent, Chief Justice John Roberts was initially going to strike down the individual mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance, but changed his mind over the objections of the conservatives on the Court (video follows with transcript):

CBS News: Roberts Initially Wanted to Strike Down ObamaCare Mandate But Changed His Mind

NORAH O’DONNELL, SUBSTITUTE HOST: We're going to start first with Jan because you've done some reporting. The big question was why did Chief Justice John Roberts do what he did? And you've learned some new details right?

JAN CRAWFORD, CBS LEGAL AND POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's right. What was striking about this decision was that it was the conservative Chief Justice that was providing that decisive fifth vote, joining the liberals to uphold the President’s signature achievement. And Norah that was something that no one would have expected back in 2005 when President George W. Bush put him on the Supreme Court, and that was something that not even the conservative justices expected back in March when the Court heard arguments in this case.

I am told by two sources with specific knowledge of the Court's deliberations that Roberts initially sided with the conservatives in this case and was prepared to strike down the heart of this law, the so-called individual mandate, of course, that requires all Americans to buy insurance or pay a penalty. But Roberts, I'm told by my sources, changed his views deciding to instead join with the liberals.

And he withstood-- I'm told by my sources -- a month-long desperate campaign by the conservative justices to bring him back to the fold, and that campaign was led, ironically, by Justice Anthony Kennedy. And why that's ironic is because it was Justice Kennedy that conservatives feared would be the one most likely to defect. But their effort, of course, was unsuccessful. Roberts did not budge. The conservatives wrote that astonishing joint dissent united in opposition, and Roberts wrote the majority opinion with the four liberals to uphold the President's signature achievement.

O’DONNELL: Has this there been anything like this on the Court before? I mean, that's extraordinary that the Chief Justice, according to your report about a month ago decided to do this and then was lobbied unsuccessfully.

CRAWFORD: Yes, that has happened before, and often in high-profile, controversial cases including Justice Kennedy who's changed his views in a very high-profile case involving a woman's rights on abortion back in 1992. And justices do change their mind. There is precedent for that. One justice told me that surprisingly enough it happens about once a term. But in the case of this magnitude with so much on the line, conservatives believed they had Roberts’ vote in this case, and there's quite a lot of anger within the hallways of the Supreme Court right now.

[Turbo Pig]

Call it what you want but I think their was a genius play made here that will truly cause Obama to

At the price of the freedom of every American; alive and yet to be born. Was this genius worth the price?

[LongWayHome]

No doubt Kagan leaked to the Obama administration that Roberts was the weak link on the conservative side oherwise they would have went after Kennedy. I doubt this was a month long issue. I bet Roberts changed his mind over the last week.

[Political Junkie Too]

Roberts "blinked" under pressure by the White House.

Roberts didn't blink, he broke under the pressure.

Once broken, he no longer has the esteem that he once had, or respect of others who would want to count on him in the future.

-PJ

[jimbo123]

Roberts was blackmailed over the illegal adoption of his children.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU AUG 04, 2005 11:35:09 ET XXXXX

NY TIMES INVESTIGATES ADOPTION RECORDS OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEE’S CHILDREN

**Exclusive**

The DRUDGE REPORT has uncovered a plot in the NEW YORK TIMES’ newsroom to look into the adoption of the children of Supreme Court Nominee John G. Roberts.

The TIMES has investigative reporter Glen Justice hot on the case to investigate adoption records of Judge Roberts’ two young children, Josie age 5 and Jack age 4, a top source reveals.

Judge Roberts and his wife Jane adopted the children when they each were infants.

Both children were adopted from Latin America.

TIMES insider claims the look into the adoptions are part of the paper’s “standard background check.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2900724/posts

[mo]

“TIMES insider claims the look into the adoptions are part of the paper’s “standard background check.”

That the Times sees this as a greater priority than The Won’s birth certificate is all any one needs to know about the parttson Fourth Estate in America.

That the owners of the Times feel secure in their treason is the fault of We the People.

[Sirius Lee]

This is what happens when you have a liberal activist Supreme Court.

It's what happens when you elect RINOs.

[Eye of Unk]

I think the decision taken in this direction has spawned more positive actions than one that made Obamacare constitutional, if it had passed by the latter it would have been a shooting war already.

In this direction at least they the enemy will be full of false hopes of achievements, and the more they celebrate the deeper they will sink with this gift of a life preserver full of lead.

At least on our side, the conservative side we have full enclosure cold water immersion suits, they on the other hand have a very limited amount of time in the cold frigid waters before they lose all bodily functions.

And as we can see Pelosi has already lost it drunk on hubris and gloating of victory.

[maine-iac7]

I’m more and more convinced that he was threatened in a way that had teeth./i>

the smell of blackmail is in the air.

Remember,back when he was first being considered, NBC went on a witch hunt regarding his two children, adopted from South America.

They have - gasp - blond hair and blue eyes - from S. Amer. surely, thought the media lackey, there's got to be a story there...

Blackmail is the clintooon/Chicago way...gathering info and sitting on it until it can best serve them.

he also has epilepsy. Threaten to make a major fuss over it in public and sway the people to 'He shouldn't be sitting on the bench?"

Anything is possible. WE are dealing with some deep evil these days, folks.

[jimbo123]

Bush, the Rinos and the ‘Rats knew about the illegal adoption of Roberts kids and worked out a deal to bury it back when the NYT started sniffing around. Now we know what the deal was.

[jimbo123]

Roberts adopted kids were born in Ireland and the adoption was laundered through Mexico or some other Latin American country.

[Girlene]

I believe her. There has to be quite a lot of anger for this to leak out of the Supreme Court.

WOw. No wonder Roberts left town.

[angcat]

I’m hitting the “like” button on this one.

[MikeSteelBe]

“I see this as our country’s Reichstag fire.”

Fast and Furious was supposed to be our country’s Gleiwitz incident.

See my tagline.

[StAnDeliver]

"And I would expect at least one of the conservative justices to give a scathing dissent that they read out loud. But Scalia’s scathing dissent was used up on Monday with the AZ decision."

Kennedy read the ACA dissent from the bench, scathingly...

[mo]

Yale University.......Skull and Bones.....the entire American leadership elite is derived from this society at Yale. Why might that be.....

These experiences in the coffins incorporated sexual pain and resulted in being born-again, into the Order, as we mentioned above. (Cooper, p.95) Powerful force charges through the participants of these ceremonies, transforming their lives dramatically. This type ritual is classic Satanism. Anton LaVey states, in his book (The Satanic Rituals: Companion To The Satanic Bible, (p. 57) “The ceremony of rebirth takes place in a large coffin.. This is similar to the coffin symbolism that...is found in most lodge rituals.”

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/skullandbones.htm

[Paladin2]

Ms. Barnhard sayz:

"Roberts is not a “Machiavellian genius.” Roberts is a moral degenerate lifetime Washington D.C. politico, who is well known in the beltway to be borderline obsessed with his image.

In other words, Chief Justice John Roberts emotionally operates on the same level as the average twelve year old girl, and just sold out not just the Republic, the Constitution and the entire American populace, but really the entire planet, because now that the United States is no more, the forces of evil will run absolutely rampant over the rest of the planet.

And Roberts did it so that a bunch of coke-snorting sodomites and psychopaths in Georgetown will pretend to like him – for about five minutes. "

[uncbob]

I could have Attorneys General from 28 states filing legal briefs to overturn ObamaCare when it had originally been passed in the U.S. Senate by a 60-39 margin.

Here in PA we elected a GOP Gov, a GOP senator and the GOP Reps now outnumber the DEMS

This happened in 2010

And if Roberts used that reasoning then he should have taken into account the results of the 2010 election

[mo]

“......bunch of coke-snorting sodomites and psychopaths in Georgetown will pretend to like him – for about five minutes. “

Until those clowns are afraid of We the People .. We the People will be stuck with this nonsense..”

[Paladin2]

"For example, if I were a Supreme Court justice I'd be asking myself how I could have Attorneys General from 28 states filing legal briefs to overturn ObamaCare when it had originally been passed in the U.S. Senate by a 60-39 margin. "

The Senate no longer represents the interests of the States.

[Eva]

I am getting tired of repeating this: John Roberts is a statist, a man who believes that all rights come from the state, not from God. Therefore Roberts doesn’t believe in the constitution as written, in the bill of rights or the balance of power in the three co-equal branches of government.

Robert’s judicial philosophy is dictated by whoever is sitting in the White House. The will of the people is irrelevant. Obama has the power.