Posted on 07/03/2012 5:16:18 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
(snip) ...“Malta, as you know, is an impregnable island fortress,” he (Roberts) said on Friday, according to news reports. “It seemed like a good idea.”
The chief justice was correct to anticipate a level of fury unusual even in the wake of a blockbuster decision with vast political, practical and constitutional consequences. The criticism came from all sides. And it was directed not at the court as whole or even at the majority in the 5-to-4 decision. It was aimed squarely at him.
(snip) Professor Yoo, the former Bush administration official, said her report (referring to Jan Crawford's book) appeared to underscore the chief justice’s failure.
“If the report is true, Chief Justice Roberts has not just made a mistake of constitutional interpretation, but of political leadership,” Professor Yoo said in an e-mail. “His job is not to finesse the place of the Supreme Court in the political world, in which he and most justices are rank amateurs, but to get the Constitution right first and then defend the institution second.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
6 of 1, half dozen of the other.
Notice who he's voting with lately?
If he's willing to issue unconstitutional rulings because of vanity, because he's hiding some skeletons in his closet that make him susceptible to external pressure, or because he's been a stealth liberal all along, the argument could even be made that he's worse than the open leftists on the court.
Trouble is...all vacations come to an end.
That’s my point also. What good is he to us now?
If Obama tries to make an appointment it would have to be recess , since __I was going to say assuredly, the Senate would not accept an Obama appointee, but now I wonder about that.
Please spare me the conspiracy theories.
I was actually surprised at Scalia dissent in the Arizona case especially since he joined the court in South Dakota v Dole.
I guess that is why Carter did not appoint a replacement for Potter Stewart.
there’s a provision for impeachin’ SC justices for a reason....
“Lucy, you got some splainin to do”
Men of my father’s generation faced the Axis powers, stared into the face of death and stormed the beaches to defeat evil tyranny. The mortality rate on some of the Pacific Islands for the first wave of troops was as high as 40%. John Roberts stared evil tyranny in the face and acquiesced. As far as I am concerned, he committed treason by NOT defending our Constitution from enemies within. Many men had the courage to face death in our previous wars. John Roberts could not face a far lesser threat with courage. Had our forebears displayed a similar weakness of character and will, our nation would have perished long ago. John Roberts will go down in my history book as the antithesis for the ideals and courage that made this country great. John Roberts has defecated on the citizens of our nation, our heritage and our descendents. May God have mercy on his miserable soul.
Putting it mildly.
Please don't mistake a mild, rhetorical question for "talking down to you".
Roberts' rulings of late do not seem to square with his previous record.
There is a vast difference between reasonable conjecture and a "conspiracy theory". The leaks from the SC combined with his recent votes and his unconstitutional ruling raise legitimate questions.
You can run from the countrymen you just betrayed, but you can’t run and hide from God, Judas.
All Cowards run.
Roberts should be dispatched to the 9th Circus Court of Appeals where his rulings are more in line.
MisChief inJustice John Robs US actually made it worse for himself. If he would have voted with the other 4 and turned down OMobstascam then the criticism from the leftists would have been directed at the conservative side of the court and he wouldn’t have been the lone focal point. He’s damaged goods now to us and if he goes the way of Souter then we and America get screwed once more by a traitor.
My question, as first asked in a reply on another thread last night is: Why did Roberts GO to Malta? I would not be the least surprised to learn that he attended a seminar on the implementation of shariah law./S
I apologize, I was kind of cranky this morning.
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