As bad as this decision was all by itself, what makes it more troubling was that it followed another bad decision on immigration where Roberts joined the liberals (and Kennedy) in striking down most of the perfectly reasonable and Constitutional Arizona law.
So yeah, who is the real Roberts? The one who got it right on partial birth abortion and the Second Amendment, or the one we’ve seen the past few weeks with immigration and Obamacare? Is the past few weeks an aberration, or is it a sign that Roberts is evolving and ‘growing’ in office?
We won’t have to wait too long. The next term should see a new challenge to racial preferences in college admissions, and a Voting Rights Act case (I don’t know the specifics of this one). On racial preferences, if Kennedy holds to his previous ruling, then Roberts will decide that case? What will he do?
And it can’t be much longer before our masters on the Sup Court take up a definitive marriage case, and decide whether or not we rubes can define it, or instead to invent a new right for homosexuals to have their unions granted state recognition. Up until now I had thought (if the current Court is still in place) that Kennedy would decide this issue, and I thought he would go back to his absurd, liberal, ‘sweet mystery of life’ jurisprudence and impose recognition of gay unions on the entire nation. Now, I think there is a very good possibility that it will be a 6-3 decision with both Kennedy and Roberts joining the liberals. But even if Kennedy gets is right, I fear Roberts would still join the liberals for a 5-4 decision.
We’ll see.
I don't have a crystal ball but I have heard that Roberts holds affirmative action in contempt and he has now setup the liberals so that when he strikes those laws down they (the libs) will look foolish whining again after claiming the SCOTUS decision is a seal of approval this/last week.
So I am watching these closely too.
Keep in mind that Obama called out the Roberts SCOTUS/court at his SOTU address and libs have been cursing Roberts and warning him up until last week to stop it.
I look at Roberts pro-bono / pro-homo work in the 1990s, and I cringe when I think about traditional marriage vs homo “marriage” cases coming before the SCOTUS.