[LonePalm]

Assuming you are correct concerning CJ Roberts, would it not be in the liberals' interest to go ahead and out him so as to put in a liberal CJ prior to the 2016 election?

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Dick Bachert]

My guess is that the left likes having a CJ on the court over whom they have that much leverage so they can play the perception that he’s NOT one of their guys when, in fact, he is.

It was LBJ — crude bastard that he was — who often declared that if you “Get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.”

Thus it seems to be so with Roberts.