[onyx]

What a colossal waste of time

Trying to be the smarest kid in the room so he can play clips later on?

Do we really think that Chief Justice Roberts would allow Kagan to sit in on the hearings if he didn’t know how Kennedy was going to vote?

[onyx]

smartest kid

[ml/nj]

What a colossal waste of time

Wow! You beat me to it. I am so bored of all this coverage of nothing. Nothing happens, including the stupid oral arguments, until they publish a decision.

Next most stupid is the Trevon Martin thing about which few facts are known.

But I guess that's all there is to talk about if one is too afraid to talk about what Joe Arpaio has brought to the table.

ML/NJ

[Madame Dufarge]

You make an excellent point.

I always knew you were smart, anyway...:-)

[Peter W. Kessler]

Onyx, I am ignorant as to the rules / inner workings of the Supreme Court, hence my question:

Can Judge Roberts force Kagan to recuse herself; can he bar her from the hearings???

Thanks

[jobim]

OK, if you’re right, you are the smartest kid in the room. On what do you base your knowledge of Roberts’s knowing Kennedy’s vote?

[Lou L]

Do we really think that Chief Justice Roberts would allow Kagan to sit in on the hearings if he didn’t know how Kennedy was going to vote?

This is an interesting answer, but it assumes that Roberts only wants to overthrow the law. If Kennedy votes to uphold, it doesn't matter whether Kagan abstains or not--I believe a 4-4 tie would uphold the law. And wouldn't that make this even more of a mess, an unpopular law being upheld by a 4-4 tie?

And, if the Court is so interested in their power and reputation, you would think they owe the current President a smackdown for his berating them in the 2011 SOTU address.

I'm reading the Toobin book on the Supremes now. In it, he claims the Justices have very little interaction with one another...at least, they aren't chummy within their offices. There aren't many casual strolls from office to office, not a lot of mundane small talk--"who do you like on American Idol? Oh, really? Which way you gonna vote on the ACA? Want to do Chili's for lunch?"

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Do we really think that Chief Justice Roberts would allow Kagan to sit in on the hearings if he didn’t know how Kennedy was going to vote?

A very fair point to make!

Hey, young lady! Do you ever read your emails? Luv ya!

[Albion Wilde]

we really think that Chief Justice Roberts would allow Kagan to sit in on the hearings if he didn’t know how Kennedy was going to vote?

He swore in an usurper, didn't he?

[Tublecane]

“Do we really think that Chief Justice Roberts would allow Kagan to sit in on the hearings if he didn’t know how Kennedy was going to vote?”

Yes.