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Posted on 07/04/2012 6:54:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is getting ridiculous. John Roberts appears to be a one man constitutional wrecking crew.
According to Salon:
"This weekend CBS News' Jan Crawford reported that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote in regard to upholding the bulk of the Affordable Care Act. Crawford reports that Roberts voted with the rest of the court's conservatives to strike down the individual mandate, but in the course of drafting his opinion changed his mind, and ended up siding with the court's four liberals to uphold almost all of the law.
In response, according to Crawford's story, the four conservatives then independently crafted a highly unusual joint dissent. If so, this would represent a powerful symbolic gesture: Joint Supreme Court opinions are rare. Normally a justice authors an individual opinion, which other justices may choose to join. Jointly authored opinions are reserved for momentous statements of principle, such as in Cooper v. Aaron, when all nine justices jointly authored an opinion declaring that the court's anti-segregation decisions were binding on state governments that disagreed with the court's constitutional interpretations.
It's notable that Crawford's sources insist on the claim that the joint dissent was authored specifically in response to Roberts' majority opinion, without any participation from him at any point in the drafting process that created it. It would, after all, be fairly preposterous for the four dissenters to jointly "author" an opinion that was in large part written originally by the author of the majority opinion to which the joint dissenters were now so flamboyantly objecting.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I had never heard the University of Malta was a beacon of academia attracting Harvard professors and USSC justices.
Here is a piece on the lack of academic rigor at the University of Malta:
"The QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a methodology that has been published annually since 2004. According to the last research (2010-2011), our University does not feature in a list of 600+ universities."
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110504/opinion/Malta-needs-a-better-University.363489
Did you notice this?
NY Times 2005 story:
A picture caption on Sunday with a front-page article about the college years of John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court nominee, misspelled the given name of a friend with whom he was shown skiing in the late 1970’s. The friend is Rob Saltzman, not Salzman.
LA Observer, 2008:
Los Angeles police commissioner Robert Saltzman was married on Saturday night to Edward Pierce, who retired as the general counsel and vice president for legal affairs of GeoCities. In addition to serving on the Board of Police Commissioners, Saltzman is associate dean of USC’s Gould School of Law. He was formerly on the city ethics commission, and going way back was senior deputy to county Supervisor Ed Edelman. The New York Times story said that the marriage took place at a home in Beverly Hills.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/09/rob_saltzman_and_edward_p.php
Annual Malta breaks with the roomie. Ski holiday with a college buddy who is a government certified rump ranger. Hmmm.
I would think that Malta is a pretty obscure place to go if you are a “closeted” gay man. And given that Malta’s university isn’t exactly Harvard or Cambridge, the clues get more interesting.
Thanks for posting!
He looks as if he thinks he is smiling and alert, if you get what I mean. I sometimes see myself in the mirror looking a bit like that, and say, "Whoops."
Thanks much. Yikes, yet another murky association. I wonder if there are pics of Roberts with girlfriends? Maybe about as many as for Barack?
My take is that someone (Scherer?) arranged for multiple photos of Roberts with his gay “friends” to be published in the NY Times. The question is why? Inside joke? Not so subtle attempt to make him look gay?
Whatever the reason, it is now clear we are dealing with Souter 2.0 . Either by force or choice he will be on the leftist team for all the important cases.
lodi, thanks for the tip on Saltzman. There’s mention of a ski trip photo of Roberts and Saltzman. Have you found it?
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Add Robert “Rob” M. Saltzman, Harvard Law 1979 or 1980
To the list of Roberts Cambridge’s strange bedfellows ring.
So now we find another old classmate and friend of Roberts with links to the Obama White House who is also a prominent gay advocate and in a male-male marriage.
Question: Does Chief Justice John Glover Roberts have any close friends who are straight?
http://weblaw.usc.edu/news/article.cfm?newsID=3746
(Click link for full article)
White House Taps USC Law Professor for Commission on Presidential Scholars
Tuesday, Aug 2, 2011
Robert M. Saltzman to select nation’s top high school seniors
By Gilien Silsby
President Barack Obama announced that USC Gould School of Law Associate Dean Robert M. Saltzman will be appointed to the Commission on Presidential Scholars, a group of distinguished citizens charged with selecting and honoring the nation?s top graduating high school seniors.
Saltzman, an expert on the political process and legal and professional ethics, oversees USC Law’s Academic Support Program. He has worked in a variety of public service capacities and currently is a commissioner for the Los Angeles Police Department. He also serves on the board of directors of the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute.
?I am honored to be able to provide this public service, especially because of the role the Presidential Scholars play in the development of leadership for our nation’s future,? Saltzman said.
Thanks for post.
I wonder if Obama has any friends who are straight??
He married at age 41, has 2 adopted kids (said to have some illegality in the adoption method), wife is a member (or head of??) of “Feminists for Life”.
Thank you for the info.
No, I didn't find that picture. I think we know why. I just did a 5 minute search and this gay stuff is floating on top. Imagine what is buried.
One other item I saw was a quote by Lazarus about the gay case Roberts worked on. Interesting that Lazarus, an Environmental Law professor, is commenting in an AP article on a gay rights case. I wonder if he worked on that case also?
The other thing is that Malta seminar is a joke beard. Just look at the law schools of the other visiting lecturers: South Texas College, California Western School of Law, William Mitchell College of Law. A Harvard prof and USSC chief justice fit right in that crowd? Come on, something else is going on.
Maybe fun in the sun with the boyfriend and a few Moroccan towel boys?
An acquaintance of mine was one of the founders of LAMDA. I haven’t seen him in a year but it might be worth a phone call. He’s actually grown quite conservative over the years!!
Looks damning to me.
Nutjob ping? Other?
Looks as though Roberts is another closeted perv.
The other thing is that Malta seminar is a joke beard. Just look at the law schools of the other visiting lecturers: South Texas College, California Western School of Law, William Mitchell College of Law. A Harvard prof and USSC chief justice fit right in that crowd? Come on, something else is going on.
That would be the Consortium for Innovative Legal Education that sets up these courses. Chief Justice Roberts lecturing jointly with Lazarus had two 2hr lectures over two days. Lots of free time. Has anyone seen any mention of their families accompanying them to the Med. Isle? I haven't.
Maybe fun in the sun with the boyfriend and a few Moroccan towel boys?. ...ort some as yet unidentified Harvard Law '79 or '80.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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While not an objectivist, I am rather fond of John Galt.
That’s the truth. And more could be added!
Great quote, thanks. Mark Levin was talking about this same principle tonight.
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