This is bad news. The issue was too important to treat as a purely professional matter. Unless the story is badly wrong, we now have our first piece of genuinely disturbing news about Roberts. When the Rats praise a Republican, there's almost always a reason.
We still have to support the guy, and we can still hope that he'll be with us 90 percent of the time. But even a justice who is 10 percent wrong can do a lot of damage.
Exactly.
If you didn't know the news you are not important.
I'd like all his records and papers released. This drip, drip, drip is ridiculous.
I agree it's bad news. It may be that he will be against us more than 10% of the time. But I am an incurable optimist. I still expect him to be between Rehnquist (90% conservative) and Scalia (98%). (I have been watching the Court since the Rehnquist/Scalia nominations in '86.) Roberts was helping the left on that case, even though he knew himself that, if push came to shove, he would vote the other way. Am I convincing?