That is why Reed got Bohener to cave on the appt issue so that Obama can put more liberal judges on the SC. Th
It will be interesting to see what Roberts does. I’m not entirely convinced that he has become “Obama’s guy,” but he certainly did act rather strangely on Obamacare, using tortured logic to uphold it.
I thought at the time that he was under some kind of pressure, which of course would not have abated since then.
I work on a lot of legal documents from Latin America, where several countries took a hard lurch to the left a few years ago, and one of the first objectives of every single one of these dictators, from Chavez on down, was to take over the judiciary and undermine its independence.
Sometimes this meant going so far as to arrest the judges and charge them either with made up crimes or with subversive activities, but in many cases it was simply done by intimidation, ridicule and harassment of the judges, in addition to their reassignment and replacement by others friendly to the regime. There was usually also a steady erosion of judicial powers by legislative means, often including rewriting or amending the national constitution.
Keep your eye on this issue.