Roberts may have thought he was protecting the Court, but in fact he has done the exact opposite.
Everything that touches SCOTUS will now be hyper-partisan, today and for the foreseeable future. If we think we’ve seen some bloody knock-down dragouts of confirmation battles, we ain’t seen nothing yet.
I half expect one Party or the other to try and resurrect the FDR Court Packing plan.
GOP Senator at hearing on Dem SCOTUS nominee: "Let's see, you personally performed abortions but say you have no opinion, you flew to Venezuela to be at the side of Hugo Chavez through his cancer scare and you spit on a soldier on your way into this chamber. You burned the constitution in college and recently said you wish you'd burned the declaration of independence too. The flag makes you cry. But you went to law school so you look qualified otherwise so I vote yes."
Dem Senator at hearing on GOP SCOTUS nominee: "You were awarded jurist of the year on five separate occasions. Your legal briefs are the source material for courses on constitutional law all across the nation. You helped an old lady cross the street today and you put a quarter in all the meters outside so nobody gets a ticket. Wait, did you read "Atlas Shrugged" in college? Extremist! In your world women will have to work as prostitutes and men will be sent to slave galleys! I smell sulpher! I vote no! In fact, fillibuster! Where are the cameras again?"
I doubt very much John Roberts was seriously thinking of anything except for his love of boundless federal power, and the stature of his office.
I had long suspected such a ruling from him from the Federal court. Indeed I was plesently surprised to see that there are some Federal employees willing to bite the hand that feeds them at least this one time in this very limited respect.
But John Roberts is not a patriot by any stretch of the imagination. Despite having been touted as a “conservative” he is very much a lover of his appointees(federal) power.
A “creature of Washington” as they say as is most of the Federal employees in black robes by force of both intentional selection and self-serving interest.
Sadly however there is no recovery from the traitorous act of the 5 Federal employees, our Federal Constitutional Republic has been effectively destroyed the despotic order of boundless democracy has replaced it.
The only real hope for our freedom rest in our ability to pull off a Revolution. There is no way to undo what the Federal employees in black robes have granted to their employee with respect to the shifting sands of democratic as an increasingly despotic oligarchy of 5 federal employees trys to impose their will for political proposes.
Your right that Republican and democrats will find the courts rulings increasingly political, but what your not recognizing right now is our resistance to their totalitarian edicts will grow as well. Ultimately we will overwhelm the Federal cort with our on the ground power and utter contempt for their lawless behavioral, as indeed we must.
But the Federal Constitutional Republic will still be dead, and from there things will determinate overtime into either a 2nd civil war or a revolution.
The end result being most likely a compete dictatorship if history is any guide.
John Roberts has not only killed the Federal court, he has killed the Federal Constitutional republic as well. He must have figured conservatives will roll over and submit to his edicts. But we have had enough of our freedom striped away from us, and unlike the left We have the guns. It is only a matter of time before the left anger enough with their lawless government to uses them.
And so I say either a Revolution(secession) or compete civil war is inevitable.