The Roberts Trap Is Sprung

American Thinker ^ | January 2, 2014 | Bill Dunne

[NewJerseyJoe]

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.

[Joe Marine 76]

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

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

[Revolting cat!]

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.

[lepton]

Well that’s the key principle.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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

[Gene Eric]

>> 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.

[ZULU]

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.

[RKBA Democrat]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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

[USNBandit]

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.

[Timber Rattler]

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

[upchuck]

Thanks for posting the printer friendly version.

Interesting article. Food for thought.

[cdcdawg]

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

[zot]

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

[Alberta's Child]

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.

[LS]

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

[Alberta's Child]

"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.

[bigbob]

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.

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is putting lipstick on a butthole. And then twerking.

LOLOLOLOLOL