If you think Bloomberg is against Roberts because he is not an originalist then you need to pay attention.
Roberts may be a grand mistake, we'll find out. I worry about "insiders" who like to be near the flame. Think Bill Cohen. Is Roberts a moth like Cohen? I don't know. His background and rearing don't point to that but we'll never know.
Roberts does not believe in the "Lost Constitution" doctrine (Scalia and Thomas). Instead, he says, "I don't have an overarching, uniform philosophy", which means that he will follow the Congress as well as a lot of precedents. In short, he will not help the other conservative members of the Supreme Court, to reject "affirmative action" and abortion. On many issues (apart from business ones), he will agree with Kennedy. Which is not very conservative...
Shows you how far left Bloomberg is for him to oppose Roberts.
Roberts replacing Renquist moves the court to the left, now there are only two conservatives left on the court.
Renquist was a reliable conservative vote, and I will bet anything that Roberts will vote with the liberal bloc on all hot button precedent issues.
Seems like Roberts was picked for big business. If he wanted to pick someone to uphold roe v wade and affirmative action he could have picked a female hispanic or female african american and atracted new voters. Instead Roberts is going to alienate the base and not attract new voters.
To have Roberts toe the dem line when he is replacing a hard core conservative is infuriating.
Bad enough we have Roberts replacing renquist but now Bush is under pressure to replace O'Conner with someone even more liberal than Roberts. Bush never got to replace Renquist because of the time of his death. Instead he has gotten two picks to replace O'Conner.
I believe that the Bush white house thought Roberts was more conservative than he was. They were against picking O'Connell because of his rigid view of stare decisis and I think they read Roberts wrong. Roberts will be conservative only on cases that haven't come before the court before. He is even more liberal than I thought he was because he made great strains to point out that opposing quotas isn't the same as opposing affirmative action. Affirmative action is quotas, the supreme court probably made the situation worse with their rulings.
Affirmative action is against the constitution. Roberts is no originalist. If you want to have affirmative action at least have it for class instead of race.