Our nation’s courts are nearing a tipping point. During President Trump’s first term, he has achieved a slim conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court (5 of 9) and has evened the score in the critically important federal courts of appeals, which are the final stop for more than 99 percent of all federal appeals.
5 of 9 on the Supreme Court are conservative? It depends on the issues involved. On the recent cases on “LGBT” rights, it was a 6 to 3 vote, in which Roberts and Gorsuch went liberal on us, on that particular issue.
It does not alter the essential point.
This election determines if the Constitution means anything.
At worst one can say that Roberts is an unreliable conservative. It is intellectually lazy to call him a liberal as some do.