Supreme Court Justice Roberts jokes about hiding after key health-care vote

Seattle Times ^ | 6-29-12 | JOE MANDAK

[Anti-Hillary]

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is joking that he’ll be spending some time in “an impregnable fortress” after casting the decisive vote upholding President Barack Obama’s health care law. Responding to a question about his summer plans, Roberts quipped that he thought his planned trip to Malta to teach a class was a “good idea.” He delivered the joke Friday at a federal court conference at a posh Pennsylvania resort. Roberts declined to answer a question about the landmark opinion issued Thursday. But he says he hopes the court will be remembered for “protecting equal justice under the law.” Roberts was speaking in Farmington, Pa., at a conference hosted by the Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia Circuit.

[BlatherNaut]

It’s so funny that those of us who have worked and studied hard our entire lives, now must line up with the lazy moochers and illegals and “take a number.”

That's the part that bugs me the most (aside from the fact that Obamacare is, in effect, the deliberate destruction of the greatest healthcare system on earth).

We're all helots now, thanks to this despicable ruling.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I'm beyond sick of Republican presidents nominating so-called judicial restraint types who, once confirmed, decide that judicial restraint means abandoning the US Constitution and going along with every brazen leftist encroachment on the personal freedoms of US citizens.

William Brennan, Earl Warren, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, now Roberts - the list goes on and on. Meanwhile I'm still trying to think of one recent Democrat-nominated SC justice who has decided to become a fan of the Constitution once on the bench. Say this for leftist judges - they stick by their stated goals and principles.

There is nothing about Obamacare's "individual mandate" that any of the Founders would recognize as appropriate in the nation they tried to create.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Roberts’ legacy will be turning the SCOTUS into just another tentacle of the Executive Branch. The Supreme Court is a freak show made up of DemocRAT political hacks and gay latinas with “compelling life stories”. The can all KMA.

[musicman]

"Supreme Court Justice Roberts jokes
about hiding after key health-care vote"

[alstewartfan]

Sometimes I hear O’Connor referred to as a good justice. This is ridiculous. She is a decent lady on a personal level, but she allowed herself to be swayed by emotional “progressive” arguments too often. She was one of Reagan’s failures, IMO. Just b/c she wasn’t as bad as some others, there is no reason to praise her. Bob

[Political Junkie Too]

Threatened with what? By whom?

We all read about the threats to the MSM if they reported on Obama's lack of qualification documents, but who is it that is so powerful that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court can't get military protection from the most elite forces at the government's disposal?

Certainly someone at the top of our government system has the power to expose such a rogue criminal entity, yes?

-PJ

[rcrngroup]

Exactly right! John Roberts thinks it's funny that he played the major role in destroying America and the best health care system in the world, up to 0dumb0's reign of terror. What an asshole John Roberts is!

Another SCOTUS stealth nominee from a supposed Republican (in this case, panderer, capitulator & all around dumb ass GW Bush) put Roberts onto the Supreme Court. That was the biggest concern that conservatives had about the minimal track record of John Roberts. Would he be a constitutional conservative, or he would follow the path of other Repub stealth nominees, and flip over to the leftist-marxist side as soon as they are confirmed.

And now we have our answer on asshole John Roberts... he's had quite a week destroying America... voted against AZ illegal alien law, voted against Stolen Valor and voted to uphold 0dumb0's CommieCare. I think we have just seen the real coming out of asshole John Roberts as the new Earl Warren.

[BlatherNaut]

Has anyone noticed how ‘classy’ the repubs have been handling the zero ‘victory’?

I've noticed various repub pundits are determined to spin Robert's betrayal of duty into some brilliant legal maneuver or heroic deed.

I wonder if they're secretly in the bag for Obama as well.

[dfwgator]

I wonder if they're secretly in the bag for Obama as well.

Repubs crave power every bit as much as the Rats, secretly they want to have control over healthcare, of course they'd never say that to the voters.

[Student0165]

What a total piece of sh*t.

[Borax Queen]

I know, I hear you....

I *finally* achieved the pinnacle of success, starting about 12 years ago, when I started my third career. I had gone to graduate school, held five part-time jobs at once, so on — what most of us conservatives have done. Finally paid off my student loans and so on.

I have never been happier, working for an outstanding Fortune 500 company. While blessed to be in good health, whenever I have had to go in (X-Ray for an accident, blood test, or something), everything is clean, spotless, FAST, safe, and paid for.

Now, I envision Cuba-style open and dirty rooms, Post Office/DMV numbers, and the same sneering attitudes that many/most of the TSAs/Post Office/Census/goobt workers already have, especially when they’re affirmative action. They know better than us, and they sound robotic when talking down to us.

What was it all for? Better to declare bankruptcy and join the leeches and looters now, the only ones rewarded in this corrupted society.

[rurgan]

This Marxist POS Roberts destroyed Freedom in America, Nothing less than this. And it thinks it's funny.Liberals/democrats are dancing in the streets with joy. What idiots. The media is pure evil.

I would rather die fighting than continue to live as a slave and to give in to these Marxist/democrat bastards.

[nerdgirl]

You can’t watch the court live unless you are there, they don’t allow cameras in.

I agree with you on Roberts not being happy about this. I am not sure that he was actually threatened, or if perhaps the massive pressure on him from the President, etc was more than he could deal with. I don’t think this is a hugely egotistical man, or some yellow belly commie as so many here are trying to make him out to be.

He is not a simple partisan HACK, which many here object to.

I didn’t agree with his opinion. I wish he’d written it differently, and sided with the right. But all of the insults being hurled at him show more about the people writing them than they do about Justice Roberts.

His life must be a piece of hell right now, and whatever his reasons were for doing this, they must have overwhelmed him.

[dfwgator]

His life must be a piece of hell right now

[Sir Napsalot]

Gut punched yesterday, and now this.

Is any one else laughing right now?

[Truth29]

"But he says he hopes the court will be remembered for “protecting equal justice under the law.”"

Well, the Regime history books might portray him that way, but what he is is the handmaiden to tyranny. Roberts needs to start polishing Dear Leader's hobnail boots so they are nice and shiny for the photo ops.

[Sir Napsalot]

Roberts called that ‘equal justice’.

????!!???!?!???!? Those who defended Roberts yesterday have anything to say?

[nerdgirl]

Hey I won’t exactly disagree with you on that.

Do the crime, do the time.

Maybe somebody had something terrible on the guy... We all know Obama is the biggest gangster president we’ve ever had.

[Vigilanteman]

Let’s just get the damn thing repealed. That begins by defeating Obamugabe and making Harry Reid the senate MINORITY leader.

Amen to that. And, as an added bonus, if dirty Harry loses enough senate seats, he might just be kicked to the curb as minority leader as well.

[madprof98]

Almost immediately after the decision came down yesterday, CNN was touting him as the Charles Evans Hughes of our time. Obama, presumably, is today’s FDR.