Blackmailed-probably not.
Threatened-yes.
I have heard from someone who has known Roberts for decades that throughout his career, he has refused even to converse casually among friends about his opinions about anything.
Their impression is that he wanted to be on the Supreme Court, and he wasn’t about to leave a conversational trail, let alone a paper trail.
And Roberts’s own comments around the time of his nomination were bizarre: He was determined to increase the “prestige” of the Court. Nice to know, when you are a plaintiff in a case, that the judge cares more about his own “prestige” than he does about the facts or the law.
Of course he was threatened. We’re talking about Obama, a practitioner of take no prisoners Chicago politics schooled by Saul Alinsky. Threatening a Supreme Court justice is all in a day’s work for a thug like Obama. I’m sure he didn’t threaten Roberts directly, but it was handled discreetly by his organized network of reprobates. It is all but certain we will never learn the truth about it.