The Joker says, "Why So Socialist?"
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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If he had a shred of decency he would resign. He made a political decision based in megalomania. He violated his oath, he disgraced himself and now he jokes about it. He’s as unlawful as Obama. So now we have a rogue POTUS and a rogue Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. Peachy.
I am reading this and I am crying. We have a wondrous thing and we are systematically destroying it — and I say this as a first generation American born not of this land.
I think his past associations were in his file. Remember “Filegate”? Theres a LOT of talk on the internet that he might have a Reggie Love somewhere in his past. As a private lawyer he even did free work for the gay rights cause. He would have been easy to blackmail.
This decision was shoddy. Even kennedy wanted to throw it out. Im betting Roberts wanted to stay in the closet. And if Hillary and Obama knew specifics about his past,,, it would have been easy.
obama doesn’t believe in giving money. He believes in coercion, but even roberts’ own dear life was not worth this treacherous betrayal of his country. Total abomination.
The Joker says, "Why So Socialist?"
Outside a diner today, we overheard a conversation among a retired couple and one of their friends. The sole woman specifically mentioned that her daughter had to pay $5,000/month for drugs that an insurance company wouldn’t pay for due to a pre-existing condition. The woman’s tone sounded like a defense of 0bama DeathcareTax (O-DCT) to me.
I ALMOST shouted out something to the effect of, “So, you think I should pay for these drugs?”
That’s it, isn’t it? Someone ELSE is supposed to pay for all this chit, and cover illegals, uninsured, etc., etc., in addition to our own care and maintenance, charitable contributions, and so forth.
I have learned that for every 3 illegals coming here now, 2, TWO for those people in Rio Linda, are violent criminals or drug runners. THESE are people for whom you and I are supposed to pay through the nose health care, and smile to the federal HHS-IRS agent while doing it.
And if we don’t, our checking will be docked anyway.
Yes, Roberts changed his mind and is now in Malta getting paid off. I have a new name for him: The Maltese Fail Con (T-MF-C).
Great article, thank you for the post.
I must say it makes me even more disappointed in Roberts.
Well said.
There are only a handful of people around who can divine what Roberts did and the ramifications of why he did it. Robert Bork is one, but so far he has not said anything, which indicates to me that he knows, but he is not going to “give the game away” by saying.
Roberts himself has almost bulletproof legal credentials, having clerked for judge Henry Friendly of the 2nd Circuit, regarded as perhaps the most brilliant federal judge who ever lived, and whose decisions are second most cited by the Supreme Court after judge Learned Hand. 19 out of Friendly’s 51 clerks became Supreme Court Justices.
If he, and his family, were threatened, that’s just too bad. Quit if you can’t handle it. Instead, he just placed 305 million of us straight into the Communist regime. Even subtracting the large number of Communists who infest the US, that’s still quite a few million he just turned over to DeathCare.
He needed to get over himself, again, IF he were threatened.
I thought that one of the whole points of these ridiculous life-time assignments is so that they are not scared into doing something they shouldn’t...
What’s the significance of the dissent being unsigned?
“He stands alone. His weakness shown on every flank.”
Bingo! If the GOP wins back the White House, item number 1 in the agenda should be the the repeal of Obamacare, item number 2 should be the impeachment of John Roberts. If he stays in the court things will only get worse.
Young Roberts on left. Notice the natural expression of his open smile as opposed to the odd forced "phony grimace/smile" in the more usual photos. In fact it's difficult to find photos of him that appear candid and un-posed.
As to his 'wife and children', easily acquired by a wealthy gay as Huffington and McGreavey proved.
Don’t care if he was threatened, don’t care if his family was threatened, don’t care if he was bought, don’t care if he was promised a date night and free room at the Four Seasons with Ruth Bader Ginsberg, don’t care if he’s a closet homosexual, and don’t care if he they have nude pictures of his family. He was wrong. No matter how it’s diced. He was wrong.
That was the whole point all along, wasn’t it? I think so... To give the criminal invaders even better healthcare, while those of us actually paying the bills get to break our backs even more, not only supporting ourselves/our families, but scores of illegals.
It’s just too coincidental that the goobt-press’s “magic number” was 50 million. Until they dropped it to 30 million uninsured. The same number of illegals in the country.
The deadbeats and lazies already get their “free” (aka stolen money) care so I didn’t think they were included in that number.
His first name is “Uncle” — UNCLE Thomas...
The significance of it being unsigned is indicative of the absolute CONTEMPT the 4 dissenters held Roberts in at the time of the ruling. They didn’t even address him- it’s a protocol and respect kind of thing...
Affordable Energy Act, forcing compliance in using only E-Star rated appliances. Cast out your old A/C, fridge, teevee, radio, computer, etc and CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME. Gaia demands it.
I believe someone made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
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