Posted on 07/02/2020 5:07:38 AM PDT by servo1969
Some of you have pointed out that when I joined the liberals to save Obamacare eight years ago by declaring that the penalty for not complying with the individual mandate was a tax, I not only disagreed with the people who wrote the law but switched sides at the last minute. It wounded me when some of you described this as "chickening out." I prefer to think of it as "alternative courage." As I said at the time, "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices," even constitutionally dodgy ones. You vote it, you got it! When it comes to American voters enacting any limits on abortion whatsoever, though, it is most definitely my job to save American voters from the policies they vote for. You vote it, you must be stopped!
The rules, as Elena Kagan has so helpfully explained to me, are straightforward enough: Abortion is not in the Constitution, but it's implied by the right to privacy, which is also not in the Constitution, but the implications within these non-specified rights are super-specific. Even down to the level of whether Louisiana medical professionals doing abortions must be held to the same standards as Louisiana medical professionals doing LASIK: This question was settled for all time back in 1787. Though I was on the opposite side of this particular question in 2016, the doctrine known as stare decisis means I am not allowed to agree with 2016 me.
Stare decisis, of course, is Latin for "I can't do anything hard."
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I can see where he gets his sense of rectitude.
How about Gorsuch?
And whoever Trump picks next?
Roberts always looks like he’s constipated. I never liked him. I don’t know what it is but I always get a feeling about someone that I don’t like from the beginning and I’m usually right. Actually all the time.
Trump is not of the establishment and so he will get nothing he wants from John Roberts. Roberts has sent this message time and time again. This time he went so far as to disagree with his 2016 self in order to screw Trump over. He will continue to do so until one of them is gone.
Roberts is just as arrogant as Trump but in an 'aw shucks' kind of way; He has an extremely high opinion of his own humility.
Nice take down of Roberts by National Review - see, even NR occasionally gets it right.
The rumors are
A. He was on trips to pedo island with Epstein
2. He’s gay
3. He illegally adopted 2 young boys.....
Epstein didn’t kill himself.
You meant two young children, right? I thought he has a son and a daughter.
JohnRoberts deserves this piece.
not even kidding, how can we get that info to get rid of that bum?
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