Posted on 07/01/2012 4:55:52 PM PDT by nerdgirl
Some of the least successful chief justices, Roberts suggested, had faltered because they misunderstood the job, approaching it as law professors rather than as leaders of a collegial Court. Harlan Fiske Stone, a former dean of Columbia Law School, was a case in point. Stone was a failure as chief, because of his misperception of what a chief justice is supposed to be, Roberts said, gesturing to the justices private conference room through an open door of his office. Its his desk out there that is separate from the conference table, and he sat at his desk, and the others were at the table, and he almost called on them and critiqued their performances. They hated that. Roberts laughed. As a result, he was a failure as a chief justice.
In Robertss view, the most successful chief justices help their colleagues speak with one voice. Unanimous, or nearly unanimous, decisions are hard to overturn and contribute to the stability of the law and the continuity of the Court; by contrast, closely divided, 54 decisions make it harder for the public to respect the Court as an impartial institution that transcends partisan politics.
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He was against it, then switched. What was He offered or promised?
Essentially, this has been my assertion since the decision was announced.
For the sake of the republic, I hope we're right...
Too early to tell IMHO.
Chin up buckaroo!
We have a Chief Justice, who cares more about building his legacy in the media, then he does through his duty.
The Chief Justice is not a man of integrity, he is not an "Oath keeper"
He woke up with horses head in his bed courtesy of Kenyan.
We can agree to disagree:) I woud like to see a constitutional admendment to reverse what Roberts did concerning taxing non-activity.
>> “One story I saw stated that the Obamabots got some info that indicated that Roberts cut some corners when he adopted his children from somewhere in South America. That and other threats was all it took for him to bend over and grab his ankles!” <<
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That’s called “Putting the country first.”
He made sure that the country got screwed before he does.
I will now cash in my defense of Harriet Miers as being not all that bad. I’ll bet she would have thrown out Obamacare.
Any conservative angry about Roberts’ decision, then, owes GW Bush an apology for all the crap he got.
In Heller the opinion of the Court was delivered by Scalia.
That said, Heller upheld the 2nd Amendment over the DC ban, ergo Fed > DC = Fed won.
Ever.
Roberts voted in favor of Heller and Heller held that gun bans in areas controlled by the feds are unconstitutional. Heller further held that individuals have a 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms. How on God’s green earth do those rulings expand the power of the federal gov’t?
Agreed!
Yes, I was thinking when I hit POST, when HE bent over, WE are the ones who got screwed! Did you notice, every photo they show of him has that same smirk on his face?!
Roberts — Bush’s fault.
Strike
Roberts is a Statist in favor of at least maintaining Federal Power over the States and the peasants.
I think now I have some idea why he did it.
I’m sticking with the stupid or evil explaination. The dereliction of duty for philosophical reasons excuse is just another version of the stupid explaination.
Roberts said, that personal trust in the chief justices lack of an ideological agenda was very important,
The concept that the plain reading of the US Constittion is the law of the land isn’t an ideological agenda.
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