Posted on 12/22/2020 4:08:09 AM PST by Liz
In a slew of important cases before the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts “has engaged in strategic maneuvering, observed Adrian Vermeule and Varad Mehta at The Washington Post:
Roberts' goal appears to be to preserve what he takes to be the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, by disproving any suspicion that the justices vote ideologically or otherwise engage in political behavior.”
The problem: “Because it is so clear that he is crafting opinions with this end in mind, the chief justice defeats his own aims.” His effective rewriting of the ObamaCare law in 2012 was the most notorious example. More recently, he held that while the administration could add a citizenship question to the Census, its reasons for seeking to do so were invalidly “pretextual.” Liberals and conservatives alike noticed that Roberts had tried too hard to strike a “Solomonic” posture. “That the strategy was so easy to detect and explain meant — paradoxically — that it had created an appearance of judicial politicking and was thus unsuccessful on its own terms.”
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Chinese commie leaders have no use in judges...I guess Roberts doesn’t see the future well...
Judge Troupis Bump!
A spineless crap-weasel with no core values. What a guy. A despicable guy, but a guy.
Lots that he’s presumably compromised on. The issue of likely illegal adoptions of his children, his being understood to be a closeted homosexual, his showing up in Malta likely to receive a payoff for an overseas account when he first went unconstitutional with Obamacare, to his reported Knights of Malta sworn fealty to the Queen.
Then of course there is the simple fact of almost everyone in DC being compromised, that he was named by a Deep State Bush, and the unfortunate example of Scalia seared into the minds of all the Justices.
Millions lost their healthcare because of this idiot son of a bitch!!!
To the Jew and to the person claiming to be Christian, this applies:
"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" (Micah 6:8 AV).No man can be just on the basis of logic alone when he (she) leaves the God of the Bible out of the equation. A follower of Aquinas' philosophy tries to do that, and it does not work.
Roberts is GWB’s Souter.
But who cares? His children are all adults and have been for many years now, he’d probably be a hero if he turned out to be gay, and as for Malta, I think he may be a member of the Knights of Malta, a Catholic organization, and I doubt that he needed a payoff for Obamacare.
He just wanted to look “fair” and “non-partisan” and get the praise of his enemies. You underestimate the power of a weak man’s ego.
I think you are totally wrong.
Oh, and I am pretty certain he has a special animus against Trump too.
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