Posted on 07/01/2012 12:16:38 PM PDT by kristinn
Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations.
Roberts then withstood a month-long, desperate campaign to bring him back to his original position, the sources said. Ironically, Justice Anthony Kennedy - believed by many conservatives to be the justice most likely to defect and vote for the law - led the effort to try to bring Roberts back to the fold....
But in this closely-watched case, word of Roberts' unusual shift has spread widely within the Court, and is known among law clerks, chambers' aides and secretaries. It also has stirred the ire of the conservative justices, who believed Roberts was standing with them.
After the historic oral arguments in March, the two knowledgeable sources said, Roberts and the four conservatives were poised to strike down at least the individual mandate. There were other issues being argued - severability and the Medicaid extension - but the mandate was the ballgame.
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It is not known why Roberts changed his view on the mandate and decided to uphold the law. At least one conservative justice tried to get him to explain it, but was unsatisfied with the response, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.
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Roberts then engaged in his own lobbying effort - trying to persuade at least Justice Kennedy to join his decision so the Court would appear more united in the case. There was a fair amount of give-and-take with Kennedy and other justices, the sources said. One justice, a source said, described it as "arm-twisting."
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A friend of the family who supported so strongly "conservative" Roberts after he had been nominated by Bush is one of those swearing to not vote because it's Romney and not a "conservative" running against Obama. He's still thinking his candidate will jump in.
He's been trying to tell everyone that Roberts did the right thing for the party because now Obama will lose because it's a tax.
“Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito “
My justice has a first name.... it’s C L A R E N C E.
My Justice has a second name ..... it’s T H O M A S.
WTF, Justice CLARENCE Thomas doesn’t get the courtesy of a first name along with Antonin & Samuel?
OIh yeah, he’s just the Black guy. The Uncle Tom on the court (sarc)
“Bottom line, the ruling hurts Obama”
I agree, but Roberts should be impeached anyway.
The way I see it, Roberts was either bribed, blackmailed or tried to manipulate the outcome of the election.
All of these scenarios make him unfit to be the chief justice and we shouldn’t have to live with this mistake for another 30 years.
The bottom line is that the man is a traitor and I have less respect for him now than I do about the lib members of the court. The fact that after the ruling he ran away to his “impregnable fortress” in the Mediterranean clearly indicates that he is aware that what he did was wrong.
If He'd done it my way, it may have met needs for a while, but by doing it HIS way much more was accomplished.So I have learned to let go and let God.
Just as I trust in God's will for my life, I will trust that for whatever reason, Roberts made a convoluted decision because he knew another matter needed attention and would need this sacrificial pawn to achieve it. It's not like he didn't tell us how to solve the problem....VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT!
Did the judge just ask the US to divide the baby. Will the true mother of the child come forward? Will the country be saved?
Looks toward the Judges decision in the Bible...Even in the New Testament Christ could not have gone to the cross, and been resurected if the Judge had not done God's will.
Giving the power to the people to make the decision is Biblical.
I remember Pelosi predicting that Roberts would be the deciding vote for commiecare.
“It is not known why Roberts changed his view on the mandate and decided to uphold the law. At least one conservative justice tried to get him to explain it, but was unsatisfied with the response, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.”
Not a clue how he got pressured. Certainly it wasnt his waiting till his 40s to get married, when he realized he wanted to be a federal judge.
And it surely wasn’t his -Pro Bono- work to overturn to Colorado law excluding homos from EEOC minority status.
And it certainly wasn’t his friendly ruling for gay marriage in DC.
And i’m almost SURE that the dems never had access to his FBI file from when he worked in GHW Bush’s white house counsel office.
I think he was told he was about to be given the Cain, Palin, Newt, treatment. Didnt want to be the next Governor McGreevey from New Jersey.
“It is not known why Roberts changed his view on the mandate and decided to uphold the law. At least one conservative justice tried to get him to explain it, but was unsatisfied with the response, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.”
Not a clue how he got pressured. Certainly it wasnt his waiting till his 40s to get married, when he realized he wanted to be a federal judge.
And it surely wasn’t his -Pro Bono- work to overturn to Colorado law excluding homos from EEOC minority status.
And it certainly wasn’t his friendly ruling for gay marriage in DC.
And i’m almost SURE that the dems never had access to his FBI file from when he worked in GHW Bush’s white house counsel office.
I think he was told he was about to be given the Cain, Palin, Newt, treatment. Didnt want to be the next Governor McGreevey from New Jersey.
Is Roberts trying to do for Obama what Ross Perot did for Clinton??
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Do you happen to have the statistics on how often Roberts attends church or his religious involvment. IIRC he’s a practicing Catholic.
Roberts' opinion on the Commerce Clause was obiter dicta, and as such not binding on lower courts.
OK, but first impeach Kagan for not recusing herself Who knows, maybe she swung against Medicaid expansion because future investigation will reveal she worked on that while she was in the White House.
“the man is a traitor “
He is also a man without a country (he sided with just 1/3 of it), and without a friend on the court. He has alienated the right side of the court and lost all respect from the left.
He stands alone. His weakness shown on every flank.
Was he bought off? If I recall the original healthcare passage, it took appointing a relative of a Congressman to the Federal bench to get one of the votes. And Barack is the guy who tried to sell his own Senate seat. And the guy who sells illegal lottery tickets to get people to donate to his campaign “win a dinner with Barry!”.
From the article:
......”After the historic oral arguments in March, the two knowledgeable sources said, Roberts and the four conservatives were poised to strike down at least the individual mandate. There were other issues being argued - severability and the Medicaid extension - but the mandate was the ballgame. “..........
......................”In the Court’s private conference immediately after the arguments, he was aligned with the four conservatives to strike down the mandate.
Roberts was less clear on whether that also meant the rest of the law must fall, the source said. The other four conservatives believed that the mandate could not be lopped off from the rest of the law and that, since one key part was unconstitutional, the entire law must be struck down.
Because Roberts was the most senior justice in the majority to strike down the mandate, he got to choose which justice would write the Court’s historic decision. He kept it for himself.”.........
what a weasel.
If a JUROR is influenced by the media, while sitting on the panel, it is considered a BAD thing.
Everything in America today is corrupt. Notice how it took just that one vote from ole Ben Nelson to even get to this point. Then,as usual, when the leftists/elites want there doings it is ALWAYS the (R) person that succumbs. Time after time this scenario plays out. So if Mittins gets in & Congress goes (R) then which scum are going to swallow the sword?
He ALREADY KNEW what the ruling would be...just for the record on Obama’s ORIGINAL reaction to the mis-reported ruling:
Barack Obama got to watch his own legacy crumble on live television, standing just outside the Oval Office where a flat screen broadcasts the feeds of four different cable news stations. “Supreme Ct. Kills Individual Mandate,” one quarter of the screen read, and then another network followed with the same grim news. Two years of work, most of his political capital, the chance to insure millions more Americans — it was all slipping away. The President did not speak. He just gazed at the monitor, looking anxious and puzzled, one aide said.
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