[Secret Agent Man]

To be fair I am far more conservative than Mitt and I didn’t expect Roberts to be the swing vote.

Might be good to change that to Scalia, though, Mitt.

[muawiyah]

Guessing how the USSC is going to go is a tough game. You must also consider the workload, and how folks deal with something that has to be worked out almost exclusively in the written word.

I know a good two dozen people who have spent years writing rulings ~ on minor issues to be sure ~ but who have worked very much in an environment just like the USSC does.

A frequent complaint is that the boss (and there are usually 3 bosses in any sort of regulatory or pricing reference operation anywhere) finagles and schemes to get his hands on all the good stuff leaving them the drek.,P>Alternatively there's the abusive boss who waits until you've written the world's most perfect answer and he says "that's not it" and brings in some doufous to redo everything.

For what it's worth I think Roberts is not a good boss. He probably does scheme and finagle so he can evade the hard cases while snagging all the showy, but easy cases for himself. Plus, he's not beyond stepping in and stealing the glory ~ that's the "bring in some doufous" option, and frequently the "doufous" is the boss himself.

For some reason, a bad batch of depakote perhaps, he decided Ruthy's version was better than the other version, rewrote a couple of things ~ maybe the part trashing the commerce clause nonsense she probably put in there, and said, more or less 'move over I'm driving' and those women just went all woozy and let him do it.