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The Roberts Trap Is Sprung
American Thinker ^ | January 2, 2014 | Bill Dunne

Posted on 01/03/2014 4:49:02 PM PST by Kaslin

One of the most overlooked aspects of the year just ended is the vindication of Chief Justice John Roberts -- a vindication that showed up as the national catastrophe known as ObamaCare got rolling. Roberts may have also doomed Hillary Clinton's chance to live in the White House again.

The chief justice, an appointee of President George W. Bush and reputedly a constitutionalist in his jurisprudence, set his diabolical trap (diabolical to Democrats) on June 28, 2012, when he joined with the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Conservatives and Republicans across the land were apoplectic. But in hindsight, it appears that Roberts actually saved the Republican Party from going into a death spiral and imperiled the Democrats instead. This suggests amazing foresight, but it wouldn't be the only instance.

For example, Tevi Troy, a scholar at the Hudson Institute, made a remarkable prophecy a year and a half before the Court's decision. It was soon after the November 2010 midterm elections, in which Democrats in Congress and in state legislatures suffered huge losses. In an article in Commentary magazine, Troy wrote:

The Pyrrhic victory Democrats secured for themselves [when President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law] may prove not to have been a victory at all but rather an ever-roiling, ongoing, and recurring act of political and ideological self-destruction.

How's that for prescience?

When the Supreme Court ruling came down, a shocked conservative historian, Paul Rahe, cited as a cause the PR pressure that President Barack Obama had been exerting on the Court in the fevered weeks leading up to the decision. It was "an act of judicial cowardice," he fumed. But then he added, "There is, I am confident, more to it than this."

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To: Kaslin

BS. This type of scenario works only if your opponent agrees to “play by the rules.” Obama and his criminal gang have demonstrated, again and again, that they have no reluctance to not follow the Constitution, knowing full well that the lapdog media will support it and that the establishment GOP will not lift a finger to oppose.


61 posted on 01/03/2014 5:43:50 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You wrote: “...but those Irish children of his...”

Damn straight! You got that right! CJ Roberts was blackmailed.


62 posted on 01/03/2014 5:44:47 PM PST by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is the gift a man gives to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: Tonytitan

A month or so ago I was at a county hearing that went against the party I was with, though I wasn’t the principal there. Illegally, unjustly, politically correct, (we were even forced to sign a silence agreement, so obviously illegal and legally dubious that I advised the members of my party who started shyly protesting that it was meaningless and would not stand up in court.) But to my deep disappointment the members of my party went along for the slaughter like sheep, and did not want to join me in filing an appeal or a protest, so that the matter ended up in a tragedy for two families. This maybe only remotely relevant, but it illustrates how laws are ignored, broken by government down to the county level.


63 posted on 01/03/2014 5:45:01 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: 1rudeboy

Well that’s the key principle.


64 posted on 01/03/2014 5:46:31 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Wow, you’re really in Satan’s cheering section aren’t you.


65 posted on 01/03/2014 5:52:48 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Portcall24

>> Have NSA (or Snowden) release all of the transcripts

Funny you suggested that. I’ve been thinking about the lack of dirt Snowden delivered on the worst offenders — the politicians.


66 posted on 01/03/2014 5:53:41 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Kaslin

Possible, but the Mid-Term Elections are not here yet. And perhaps, perhaps, Obama is the better secret chess-player here - if indeed Roberts is such - and his ultimate goal is socialized medicine and this mess is deliberately contrived to destroy the multi-party insurance network , throw everyone out in medical coverage limbo, and generate a demand from the masses for government insurance.

He should have stuck with the other conservative judges. I don’t trust him.


67 posted on 01/03/2014 5:57:51 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama the Doctor Mengele of Medical Care)
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To: Kaslin

What a load of crap. Roberts bent over forwards for the executive branch. He did what he was expected to do to preserve the uniparty’s power. End of story.


68 posted on 01/03/2014 5:58:17 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Having some small say in who gets to hold the whip doesn't make you any less a slave.)
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To: ZULU

Imagine, someone who believes that when Satan is thrown head to head with God, God will win?


69 posted on 01/03/2014 6:00:10 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

His job isn’t to help the GOP or the democrats. His job is to evaluate the cases brought before the court based upon the law and the Constitution.


70 posted on 01/03/2014 6:00:11 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Kaslin
Not buying it. Robert succumbed to intense behind the scenes pressure from the White House, so much so that he changed his vote at the last possible second and then wrote an opinion completely at odds with the original one he authored. He was arguing with himself and lost.

New Evidence Obama May Have Turned Roberts

71 posted on 01/03/2014 6:01:53 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks for posting the printer friendly version.

Interesting article. Food for thought.


72 posted on 01/03/2014 6:04:45 PM PST by upchuck (My Internet addiction is so bad... it's alt of ctrl.)
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To: smoothsailing

I’m with you. The two things seem to be mutually exclusive.


73 posted on 01/03/2014 6:04:54 PM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the ping. I think this outcome still remains to be seen.


74 posted on 01/03/2014 6:05:59 PM PST by zot
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To: Dr. Sivana
I agree that the ACA is unconstitutional. I'll bet Chief Justice Roberts does, too. But the question at the time involved whether or not the ACA was unconstitutional on the basis of the very specific legal challenge that was brought before the court.

Just because the U.S. Supreme Court found the individual mandate in the ACA constitutional on those grounds, it didn't mean the ACA was constitutional in its entirety. There was always going to be further legal challenges based on different legal arguments that could not be brought at the time because they related to provisions of Obamacare that hadn't even taken effect yet.

75 posted on 01/03/2014 6:06:13 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Tonytitan

A better example is the Sherman Sliver Purchase Act, repeLed in a year after people saw how stupid it was.


76 posted on 01/03/2014 6:07:07 PM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Dr. Sivana
"It is not our job," he [Roberts] added, "to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices."

That says it all right there.

77 posted on 01/03/2014 6:07:38 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Kaslin

I’ve said some of these same things all along, I just stopped saying them on FR because no one will ever be convinced there was any more to Roberts decision than being a bastard/communist/idiot who was being blackmailed by the gay media, or something.

We’ll just wait and see how it unfolds.


78 posted on 01/03/2014 6:11:35 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Alberta's Child
Just because the U.S. Supreme Court found the individual mandate in the ACA constitutional on those grounds, it didn't mean the ACA was constitutional in its entirety

And THAT is the question on which Scalia, Alito, Kennedy and Thomas are right and Roberts, Kagan and Ginsberg are wrong.
79 posted on 01/03/2014 6:17:10 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (Five years, my brain hurts a lot.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
This is putting lipstick on a butthole. And then twerking.

LOLOLOLOLOL

80 posted on 01/03/2014 6:18:35 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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