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Why Roberts did it
The Washington Post ^
| June 28, 2012
| Charles Krauthammer
Posted on 07/01/2012 7:57:19 PM PDT by trekdown
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posted on
07/01/2012 7:57:30 PM PDT
by
trekdown
To: trekdown
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posted on
07/01/2012 7:59:07 PM PDT
by
kenavi
(Obama doesn't hate private equity. He wants to be it with our money.)
To: trekdown
SORRY! This is NOT the job of the Supreme Court! They are suppose to rule on Constitutionality, not anything else!
That means that Roberts did NOT do his duty. Not only that but he disregarded his duty to the Constitution.
Anything else is just an excuse for his vote.
Yes, I am getting madder by the day!!
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:04:01 PM PDT
by
Deagle
(nOT Get a)
To: trekdown
Yep, that’s about it. We need to work hard between now and November!
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:06:35 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: trekdown
“Thats undoubtedly what Roberts is telling the nation: Your job, not mine. I wont make it easy for you.”
Time to impeach the moron.
To: trekdown
We can stop the ObamaCareTax with whats in pave now.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:08:34 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(We must get down on our knees each day and thank God that McCain/Palin didn't win in '08.)
To: trekdown
All Roberts and the Supreme Court had to do was either find the law Constitutional or unconstitutional. Period. What he did amounts to psycobable.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:08:52 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: Deagle
This is NOT the job of the Supreme Court! They are suppose to rule on Constitutionality, not anything else! That means that Roberts did NOT do his duty. Not only that but he disregarded his duty to the Constitution.WHAT YOU SAID!! And, I'm also getting more and more pissed off with each passing day.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:09:00 PM PDT
by
Marathoner
(Amnesty on Monday, socialized medicine on Thursday, we are sooo screwed.)
To: Deagle
Yea me too.
It’s settling in very bitter.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:11:24 PM PDT
by
Clump
( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
To: BarnacleCenturion
Time to impeach the moron.Which moron, Roberts or Obama?(At this point, either one is OK by me)
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:12:24 PM PDT
by
Marathoner
(Amnesty on Monday, socialized medicine on Thursday, we are sooo screwed.)
To: trekdown
Thats undoubtedly what Roberts is telling the nation: Your job, not mine.
I respect Krauthammer's mind, but here he's dead wrong. As Scalia, Thomas, Alito and even Kennedy knew, this is exactly the job the Supreme Court exists to do - ruling on the Constitutionality of laws passed by Congress and striking down those which are not in conformance with the US Constitution. Roberts passed on that responsibility and chose to bend his views and the US Constitution like pretzels to find a way to keep this gross imposition on individual freedoms alive. If Roberts doesn't consider this his job, he should never have accepted the nomination.
To: trekdown
Does that mean the fact Thief Justice roberts is a duplicitous jackass who actively refused to do his job had nothing to do with it?
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:16:18 PM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(With (R)epublicans like these, who needs (D)emocrats?)
To: Deagle
Exactly. Roberts screwed the pooch, AND, the American people. He can regain integrity by admitting he did wrong, and resigning. Obama won’t have time to replace him before he is thrown out on his commie arse.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:17:01 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
( Romney blows with the political winds, Obama just blows.)
To: trekdown
I don't understand why Krauthammer feels compelled to make excuses for Roberts.
Why did he do it? Because he carries two identities. Jurisprudentially, he is a constitutional conservative. Institutionally, he is chief justice and sees himself as uniquely entrusted with the custodianship of the courts legitimacy, reputation and stature.
Really? Because by ignoring his own understanding of the illegitimacy of the law, he has damaged the stature of the Supreme Court immeasurably and irredeemably. It makes no sense at all.
Krauthammer himself says he'd have ruled differently.
There is nothing positive about the Roberts ruling, including his motives - whatever they may have been. Achieving a bad result by doing the wrong thing - deliberately - is wrong.
You don't have to be a lawyer or a judge to understand that. John Roberts is either a very bad justice or a very bad man, or both.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:19:48 PM PDT
by
PhatHead
To: trekdown
It appears as though Roberts may have a large cult following. According to the Yahoo front page, Roberts’ ruling has made ObamaCare very popular with “Republicans and independents”.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:20:05 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dude! Where's my Constitution?!)
To: trekdown
That Miers nomination is looking better and better all the time.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:21:59 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: FrdmLvr
What he did amounts to psycobable.
Kinda like Charles' explanation of Roberts' opinion
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:26:05 PM PDT
by
Girlene
(Chief AHat Roberts - should resign in disgrace.)
To: trekdown
Nope, Roberts nullified the Constitution with this ruling. It will take 2 more Conservatives on the Court to isolate this bastard. No Conservative issue is ever going to get fair hearing as long as the lefty gang of five is there. They will make every lefty crackpot law and lawsuit legal and dismiss a Conservative law and lawsuit as political. This ruling FUBAR any fair hearings in the future.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:26:13 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
To: FlingWingFlyer
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:28:29 PM PDT
by
funfan
To: funfan
I guess the “republicans and independents” they talked to were relieved to learn it was just a tax and not a penalty.
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posted on
07/01/2012 8:30:57 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dude! Where's my Constitution?!)
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