Chief Justice Appears To Take Shot Across Gorsuch’s Bow

Daily Caller ^ | 07/07/2017 | Kevin Daley

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

In remarks given at a judicial conference in Pennsylvania this week, Roberts reiterated his long-held view that the Court should speak with one voice wherever possible — that is to say, he supports a consensus-driven approach to opinion writing in which the justices strive for unanimity and avoid writing their own concurrences or dissents. In doing so, he appeared to rebuke Gorsuch, who has flashed a propensity for writing on his own in his first months as a justice.

[MayflowerMadam]

If it can be proven that Roberts truly was blackmailed in the Obamacare case, I wonder if it would be possible to render that decision void. That would turn the clock back to the day before the vote.

I remember when I heard how Roberts had voted - in the car leaving the airport. I almost puked.

[N. Theknow]

Ah, yes. Chief Justice Roberts who ruled Obama care was a tax and ignored the fact that it originated in the Senate when all tax bills must originate in the House.

[JonPreston]

Roberts loves pizza.

[Twotone]

Consensus - how the left tries to drive the conversation THEIR way by forcing others to moderate their positions. I hope Gorsuch gives Roberts the middle finger.

[Sooner Gal]

So, Kagan dissents without writing an opinion about it. She’s lazy.

[Artemis Webb]

Roberts can't take away Gorsuch’s votes. He can't censure him. He can't remove him from the court. He might as well shut up and attend his cocktail parties, which is apparently the MOST important thing in his life. It must be disappointing for him to look in the mirror each morning and realize that he once had principles.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Roberts has got to go. He’s an Obama boy.

[Vaden]

The way things are going, I would support Roberts’ removal from Chief Justice and Gorsuch being installed in his place.

[StAnDeliver]

You like him that much Mistuh CJ?

Trump gonna send you ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE HIM! MAYBE TWO MORE!

Now sit down and do what you're told...

[NFHale]

RE “holding something over Robert’s head”

I agree.

This man will bone us again (ala Obamacare) at the first opportunity.

[StAnDeliver]

This CJ gripe is tripe, it's small ball. I want to know the exact Gorsuch cite to which CJ complains. Probably Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer. Well, John Bob, you're going to get a 6-3 Court soon enough and maybe then it's time for a new Chief Justice...

Here are the Chief Justice Robert's remarks in question. Leaving this full size to avoid pixellation. Font choice not mine lol.

[alancarp]

You could certainly be correct - the Daily Caller is supposed to be leaning toward our side.

When Roberts first took the reins, I had thought that his ideas of trying to get strong majority decisions was good, but most likely unworkable. That's become more obvious as time as passed, but I suppose if he's truly going after Gorsuch, that's to our detriment: it would be as if he's trying to put the brakes on another Thomas-Scalia-esque partnership before it begins.

[StAnDeliver]

Well, I just figured out what this was about. Took 10 minutes and 2 cups of coffee.

• The opinion writer is chosen by the most senior justice who finds himself in the majority after the initial voting

• For example, Obergefell initial vote: 5-4; most senior justice of the 5: Justice Kennedy; he assigned the opinion to: himself

• Kennedy is currently the most senior member of the Court, but is widely rumored to be retiring in 2018

• THE NEXT MOST SENIOR MEMBER OF THE COURT IS JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS

• Kennedy's replacement by President Trump will ensure a slew of 6-3 (and even 5-4) conservative member decisions

• Therefore, JUSTICE THOMAS will assign EVERY ONE of those conservative member majority opinions

• Thomas is well known for his own writing and is likely to write a majority of those majority decisions

[EODGUY]

“Unanimity eh?

Howcum all those 5-4s, then?”

Exactly my thoughts....until a recent decision, one would be hard-pressed to find a SCOTUS decision that represented a greater majority than one justice.

[Mr. Mojo]

Blackmail or NWO Bush Trojan horse, that is the question.

Doubt we’ll ever find out.

[alternatives?]

“Been reading items about the illegal adoptions of the kids by Roberts for years.”

If so, why not take him out now while we have the presidency and senate?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Roberts is a lightweight jealous of a philosophical and principled thinker.

[KosmicKitty]

Roberts - stealth liberal, like Souter.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

The O-care ruling was a complete betrayal.

It was not only a betrayal, but he re-wrote the law to make it a tax, when the Bowbama bunch kept saying it wasn't, thus making it a law. Yes! Total betrayal!

BTW, I'm a Taylor kinda guy, with Gibson's and Epiphones mixed in.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

A post by Sasparilla:

Dissents sometimes become tomorrow’s majority opinion. Justice Harlan was the sole dissenter in Plessy v Ferguson, where the SCOTUS majority held that separate but equal should prevail. That all changed some 50 years later when Brown v Board of education reversed the Plessy Majority. Dissents to Roberts’ votes will surely become law someday too.