Posted on 10/18/2014 6:36:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chief Justice John Roberts seems to be going wobbly again.
Conservatives, still smarting from what they view as an ideological betrayal by Roberts two years ago in the Supreme Court’s 5-4 Obamacare decision, have looked on suspiciously in recent weeks as the chief justice twice appeared to side with the court’s liberals and Justice Anthony Kennedy against the court’s conservatives.
When the high court issued orders last week blocking Wisconsin’s voter ID law and stopping enforcement of key parts of Texas’s new restrictions on abortion clinics, Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito publicly dissented. Roberts was notably silent.
Taken together, Roberts’s actions seem to be contributing to a kind of buyer’s remorse that could result in even more pressure for ideologically pure nominees.
During his confirmation hearings, Roberts presented himself a strict interpreter of the Constitution and compared a judge’s role to that of an umpire calling balls and strikes. President George W. Bush was so confident in Roberts’s conservative bona fides that he appointed him directly to the post of chief justice.
“I think there are a lot of conservatives who feel like, instead of calling the balls and strikes, he’s kind of ducking when possible,” said Carrie Severino of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network. “There certainly seems like a more consistent pattern on the part of Scalia, Thomas and Alito of being really conservative to the core.”
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Obamacare. Too late.
I do.
In before the “What Roberts did on Obamacare was pure strategery!” FReeper koolaid drinkers.
He is a liberal justice. He is a traitor to the nation
GOING soft?
What?
The creep checked off on the government’s unconstitutional power grab over healthcare — and GOP is “worried he might be going soft?”
He come through on Voter ID here in Texas. He’s still on OUR SIDE, at least in my book.
He is a Traitor to the Constitution and the nation.
its a done deal.....when rats buy a judge, they stay bought.....
Going?
Going?
Too late.
Well, whatever they had on him to blackmail him to vote the way he did for Obamacare, they still have over his head. He is now a liberal voter.
I smell a karl rove around this whole mess...
Squishy....
Roberts appears to have dirt on him or something that has him turned.
Chief Justice John Roberts seems to be going wobbly again.
Anyone surprised? He betrayed us previously, and he'll have no problem doing it again. .
I think he’s being blackmailed in some way.
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