[JRios1968]

Roberts is widely regarded as extremely intelligent. Unlike conservative ideologues such as Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas, he prefers not to rewrite legal doctrine with sweeping new decisions.

Jonathan Chait must be smoking some really expensive weed. Scalia and Thomas are the only two Justices who can be relied upon to actually interpret the Constitution, rather than re-write it.

[Restorer]

Unlike conservative ideologues such as Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas, he prefers not to rewrite legal doctrine with sweeping new decisions.

These two justices, unlike most of the others, prefer to rewrite legal doctrine rather than rewrite the Constitution.

[DoraC]

Actually, I think that a majority of Scalia's and Thomases would be a disaster. I am fine with not legislating from the bench, but they (especially Thomas) overturn every precedent they don't like and so jetisson hundreds of years of judicial wisdom.

[rollo tomasi]

Scalia and Thomas are trying to rewrite doctrine established by current and previous "liberal" activists on the Court.

Chait is not far off but of course he leaves out the fact that Scalia and Thomas are attempting to reign in those activist who take the Constitution on a journey filled with penumbras and emanations.