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How John Roberts will manage the Supreme Court's conservative majority
CNN ^ | 10/8/18 | Joan Biskupic

Posted on 10/08/2018 9:32:08 AM PDT by LibWhacker

If this court is going to break out of its predictable political mold on major legal controversies in America, it will be up to the inscrutable 63-year-old chief justice, whose ideology now lands him at the center of the bench, between the four liberals and the four most dependable conservatives.

Yet unlike Anthony Kennedy, who Kavanaugh succeeded, Roberts is no centrist conservative with a record of joining the left on closely watched social policy disputes, such as to uphold abortion rights. The instincts of Roberts, who rose in Washington as he served Republican administrations, have always rested with the right wing.

Still, Roberts has demonstrated an investment in the reputation of the court, and of his own. The 2005 appointee of President George W. Bush loathes public criticism that casts the justices as politicians on the bench.

"We don't work as Democrats or Republicans," he has said. Where Brett Kavanaugh stands on key issues How Roberts responds to the questions about the court's legitimacy and partisan tendencies spurred by the Kavanaugh nomination could shape public perception of the court for the next generation. In his new pivotal position, Roberts' moves in cases will also substantially influence the law throughout America.

On the near horizon are disputes over partisan gerrymandering and voting rights, environmental and other regulatory issues, and women's reproductive rights and health care.

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To: monkeybrau

*say


21 posted on 10/08/2018 9:56:25 AM PDT by monkeybrau
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To: LibWhacker

Roberts is worrisome. His decision on Obamacare is probably my single most hated SCOTUS decision in the last decade at least. Just absolutely horrible.


22 posted on 10/08/2018 9:57:51 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: bk1000
the swing vote thing.
. . . has always been the hope to which the minority clings.

There will always be cases in which not all conservatives agree - but in my adult lifetime that phenomenon has always been dominated by the “swing vote” of people like O’Connor and Kennedy.

Wouldn’t you just love to be able to see Antonin Scalia seeing this court today!


23 posted on 10/08/2018 10:02:34 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Which Fraud are you talking about?

If they were blackmailing Roberts over his kids adoption, and his kids being grown nullifies that, then Roberts may be in the mood for payback.


24 posted on 10/08/2018 10:02:42 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Ingtar

It took an Amendment to tax income ... but taxing not complying with a federal rule?

But, you know, fines require due process so call it a tax and none of that guff.


25 posted on 10/08/2018 10:03:46 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
He wants to be the next Kennedy and that vote certainly set him up for stepping into those shoes. But my question is why would you want to?
26 posted on 10/08/2018 10:04:32 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Obamacare was clearly outside the scope of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights yet Justice Roberts did backflips, contortions, and double jointed slithery to justify it.

I will never assume Roberts is either a constitutionalist or right wing. I simply don’t trust him to do the right thing.


27 posted on 10/08/2018 10:04:56 AM PDT by Boomer (Cheers to the Triump of the Trump Admin.)
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To: Ingtar

Yep - and one must wonder if he is wimpy enough to have caved to a dem barrage of threats while on a left-leaning SCOTUS....would love for Gorsuch to end up in his seat...


28 posted on 10/08/2018 10:26:10 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: Boomer

Roberts is comprised


29 posted on 10/08/2018 10:26:26 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SauronOfMordor

“Which Fraud are you talking about?”

The leftists’ god Obama that currently identifies as a man.


30 posted on 10/08/2018 10:29:26 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: LibWhacker

The left has its ways. If he becomes the swing vote, he will be lionized in the press, by the legal profession and academy, and in the history books as a great man of “principle, intellect and courage”. Speaking fees into the hundreds of thousands, fawning profiles in all of the most influential publications, etc., etc. Or he can end up like Scalia . . .


31 posted on 10/08/2018 10:35:13 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: LibWhacker

Probably badly.


32 posted on 10/08/2018 10:41:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: LibWhacker

Like I need a CNN opinion.
I love the smell of burning hair in the morning.


33 posted on 10/08/2018 11:07:02 AM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: hadaclueonce

It’s easy, just don’t Lead them as much


34 posted on 10/08/2018 11:08:26 AM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: LibWhacker

CNN hoping that Roberts can save the Left. I’m not a student of the court, but we do know that the Obamacare ruling was troubling.


35 posted on 10/08/2018 11:10:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: LibWhacker

I agree. Roberts does want to be the next Kennedy. He knows that if he becomes the wild card, everyone on the left is going to put him in the spotlight and applaud his “bravery”, “independence”, “wisdom”. If he votes lockstep with the other 4 on the right, he’ll be vilified by the left. President Trump needs to replace Ginsburg (and hopefully Breyer) to ensure a true conservative majority. Roberts cannot be trusted.


36 posted on 10/08/2018 11:20:05 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: LibWhacker; All
When one side, Conservatives, revere the Constitution and the rule of law, and the other side, Progressives, disdain the Constitution and the rule of law, there is bound to be conflict.

Any court that tries to be *in the middle* of that, is going to be constantly violating the Constitution.

37 posted on 10/08/2018 11:22:31 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: LibWhacker

The Chief Justice doesn’t have any real power, except the power to designate who writes the opinion for the Court. And even that is constrained since it’s obviously got to be someone who’s in the majority.


38 posted on 10/08/2018 12:10:10 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: cnsmom

He wouldnt hear certain important cases because he knew Kennedy would vote with Ginsburg.

Now, we will see which cases they take and decline.


39 posted on 10/08/2018 12:12:11 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (A bad peace is better than a good war.)
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To: LibWhacker

When Ruthie gives it up it won’t matter what Roberts does. In six years any number of justices could leave....all will be replaced by conservatives!!!


40 posted on 10/08/2018 12:15:39 PM PDT by ontap
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