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Was John Roberts blackmailed? This and other questions keep swirling around the blogosphere
coachisright.com ^ | July 15, 2012 | George Spelvin, staff writer

Posted on 07/15/2012 6:56:47 AM PDT by jmaroneps37

President Barack Obama signed his executive order stopping deportation of some young illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children a scant 13 days before Justice John Roberts flipped his no to a yes allowing the President’s premier legislation to become the law of the land just as Obama’s reelection campaign ramps up.

Now some observers are wondering if questions asked about the Roberts’ private adoptions in 2005 during his confirmation hearings might have had a “lingering” effect.

According to underneaththeirrobes.blog.com, “Perhaps the children were born in Ireland but were in Latin America immediately prior to their adoption.” The same blog refers a little later to a NEW YORK TIMES report saying they were adopted privately.

Attorney Roberts was only able to play an advisory role for the Bush team even though he was in Florida during the Bush-Gore 2,000 election crisis because he was under stress and preoccupied with the adoption of his son, according to another report by Dan Klaidman of NEWSWEEK.

So we now learn of the deep divide that the Roberts flip flop is causing in the Supreme Court. “Instead, the four (conservative justices) joined forces and crafted a highly unusual, unsigned joint dissent.

They deliberately ignored Roberts’s decision as if they were no longer even willing to engage with him in debate.” says the gateway pundit who is using the word compromise to characterize what Roberts did!

“…Roberts’ past suggests conservatives might have been misled… [his]… being their champion on the bench. While working …law firm of Hogan and Hartson, Roberts behind the scenes did pro bono work for the gay rights advocates by preparing arguments in the gay movements’ most important legal victory, the Romer v. Evans 1996 case in front of the Supreme Court....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: johnroberts
It could be he was blackmailed or he could just be another fake conservative. Either way we lose with him.
1 posted on 07/15/2012 6:56:54 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: jmaroneps37

This is rich considering we have an undocumented pResident.


2 posted on 07/15/2012 7:05:24 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: jmaroneps37

MMmmm. Well, it could be that he is smarter than us all, helping us in the election, and, in the event that Obama wins anyway, then waiting for someone to sue on the grounds that the “tax” is not a legitimate tax (it is neither an excise tax or an income tax; Roberts was vague, and ruled only that it is not a direct tax), and redeeming himself in our eyes by voting that the plaintiff is correct. Long shot? Maybe. But, not impossible.


3 posted on 07/15/2012 7:08:35 AM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: jmaroneps37

“Either way we lose with him.”

Ditto that.

New Zealand you say?


4 posted on 07/15/2012 7:10:49 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: jmaroneps37

“Either way we lose with him.”

Ditto that.

New Zealand you say?


5 posted on 07/15/2012 7:11:02 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: jmaroneps37

Very strange, the manner in which he adopted these children, no? Is he another Jerry Sandusky?


6 posted on 07/15/2012 7:13:31 AM PDT by old school
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To: old school

Is he married?


7 posted on 07/15/2012 7:18:55 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb

Never mind, read the article. yes he’s married.


8 posted on 07/15/2012 7:20:56 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: old school
I wouldn't go that far. But it might have been illegal adoption. I find it hard to believe that two Irish children not from the same family end up in Latin America to be adopted by Roberts.

Something funny went on there.

He looks gay here but all three of these guys are now married to woman

9 posted on 07/15/2012 7:23:04 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: jmaroneps37

Seeing that this came up in his confirmation hearings and is a problem, wouldn’t one be more inclined to think the Dems would have filibustered it then, as they always do? This “thoery” makes no sense at all.


10 posted on 07/15/2012 7:27:05 AM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: jmaroneps37

He has turned out to be weak-minded, and susceptible to pressure from the Washington establishment and the media. The Obama criminal organization had to know his weakness. They did their research. They began their attacks early and often, a very risky move unless they knew he would cave. Try that with a principled judge who can be angered, and see where it leads. It doesn’t matter what Roberts is or was. He is nothing but a toy now. The best that can be hoped for is that Romney and the Republicans can play with him when the time comes. I hope they have watched and learned.


11 posted on 07/15/2012 8:03:02 AM PDT by pallis
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To: MrChips

My money is on your hypothesis. So sick of all of the conservative ranting against Roberts.


12 posted on 07/15/2012 9:43:45 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Bigg Red; MrChips
MMmmm. Well, it could be that he is smarter than us all, helping us in the election, and, in the event that Obama wins anyway, then waiting for someone to sue on the grounds that the “tax” is not a legitimate tax (it is neither an excise tax or an income tax; Roberts was vague, and ruled only that it is not a direct tax), and redeeming himself in our eyes by voting that the plaintiff is correct. Long shot? Maybe. But, not impossible.

My mother said the same thing. Maybe yuns and her are right, he made the decision to either help hand the election to Romney, or failing that, get Obamacare removed/defunded because it is a tax via some method. In short, maybe he did that to "take one for the team." I still have to go at face value though, there is a side of me that wonders if he was compromised or he wasn't the right pick, but I still keep these thoughts in the back of my mind.

Where we are at now, all the king's horses and men with an aircraft carrier load of C4 ain't going to get Obamacare move out of there and onto the ash heap of history where it belongs. Sure, we can get it repealed in the House, but that's it, the Senate ain't going to do that (unless we change it in November) and Obongo would veto it anyhoo.
13 posted on 07/15/2012 4:25:23 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
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To: jmaroneps37
Was John Roberts blackmailed?


14 posted on 07/15/2012 4:38:31 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: RummyChick
He looks gay here but all three of these guys are now married to woman

Beards. Just like McGreavy, the ex Gov. of NJ.

15 posted on 07/15/2012 5:36:23 PM PDT by metalurgist ( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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