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Are We Being Too Hard On John Roberts?
CE.com ^ | July 5th, 2012 | Ken Connor

Posted on 07/05/2012 7:14:59 PM PDT by Salvation

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Sounds like he has been reading some of the posts on FR.
1 posted on 07/05/2012 7:15:16 PM PDT by Salvation
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Ping!


2 posted on 07/05/2012 7:17:42 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Elections have consequences, and John Roberts is absolutely right that it is not the role of the Court to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.

What bullhockey. The Founders crafted the Constitution specifically to contain the excesses of democracy. I guess they never envisioned that a succession of Supreme Court justices would simply alter the meaning of words to get around those limits.

3 posted on 07/05/2012 7:18:04 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Salvation
Put this hair-sprayed con-man up against Thomas Sowell. Get an education on critical thinking.
4 posted on 07/05/2012 7:19:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village gen)
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5 posted on 07/05/2012 7:19:12 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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This is about the 4th such piece I've read today that argues the same thing. It seems that there is a coordinated effort underway by certain people who are trying to either defend or rehabilitate Roberts.

Sorry, but no.

6 posted on 07/05/2012 7:19:54 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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No, we’re not being too hard on him. He took an oath to uphold the Constitution - not uphold the reputation of the Court.


7 posted on 07/05/2012 7:20:55 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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He is a traitor just like Obama and many in congress.


8 posted on 07/05/2012 7:21:49 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Salvation
Are We Being Too Hard On John Roberts?

No, we are not. The simple matter here is that the man did not hold to his oath, and in so betraying his oath also introduced an incomprehensible, internally inconsistent ruling (if a lack of economic action is not commerce, then how can a tax be applied to that same lack of action? "We're going to tax you for the $40k you didn't earn last year...") that expanded the power of the state by at least a single order of magnitude. (Now the government can tax you for not doing something, essentially. Imagine: 'I'm sorry sir, but if you don't buy cigarettes you'll have to pay a $4 non-consumption tax-penalty.')

9 posted on 07/05/2012 7:22:55 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Salvation

Of course we are. It is just unrealistic to expect Supreme Court justices to follow the Constitution.


10 posted on 07/05/2012 7:23:52 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Salvation
Interesting piece. On the other hand the story is Roberts managed to write the MAJORITY decision and the DISSENT as well.

As crazy as that sounds he suffers or has suffered from seizures ~ and was prescribed anti-seizure medication.

It's not that he's crazy, but his brain is not operating in what we would think of as a normal manner.

Used to read through my friend's epileptic musings ~ hundreds of 3 ring binders filled with stream of consciousness stuff ~ then he finally had a terminal seizure.

He used every medication they had but he didn't use depakote ~ it wasn't on the market then. The man was pretty bright and had a law degree from a serious school. He was lucid to the end BUT he had this writing thing ~ and I'll be doggoned, it looks like Roberts is doing that too ~ but the silly Associate Justices, all very serious minded folks, seem not to have had it occur to them that Robert's performance was NOT RIGHT.

11 posted on 07/05/2012 7:24:45 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Salvation

When there is a Democratic Death Panel reading your FR posts just prior to making a critical decision about, you will know the answer to that question.


12 posted on 07/05/2012 7:24:58 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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“Are We Being Too Hard On John Roberts?”

No. He’s stabbed us all in the back.


13 posted on 07/05/2012 7:24:58 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:59:00......)
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I fail to understand how Roberts could decide that the “Personal Mandate” is a tax when the case was not argued by the Obama’s lawyers in that way. Is this what it’s come to? Judges re-arguing cases the way they prefered them to be argued? Seems to me any first year law student would get ripped for this.


14 posted on 07/05/2012 7:25:15 PM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: Salvation

No. We’re being too hard on George W. Bush.


15 posted on 07/05/2012 7:25:55 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (A Dalmation was spotted wagging its tail.)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

Why should Roberts care what the communists think of the court. It seems to me that the more the communists hate the court the better the job the court s doing!


16 posted on 07/05/2012 7:26:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber (To the left wrong is right, down is up and backward is "Forward")
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To: Salvation

I suggest a simple answer - Roberts is a LIBERAL.


17 posted on 07/05/2012 7:26:41 PM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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To: Salvation

One word answer. NO


18 posted on 07/05/2012 7:27:02 PM PDT by Mom MD (T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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No.


19 posted on 07/05/2012 7:27:02 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1261 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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NO and Heck NO!!

John Roberts (I won't dignify him with the title of Supreme Court Justice) is an anti-Constitution Pecker-Head! There...I said it!

20 posted on 07/05/2012 7:27:42 PM PDT by Artcore
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