Posted on 12/23/2018 5:23:06 PM PST by SMGFan
In his first 13 years on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s main challenge was trying to assemble five votes to move the court to the right though there were only four reliably conservatives justices.
Now he faces a very different problem. With the retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and his replacement by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, the chief justice has the votes he needs on issues like abortion, racial discrimination, religion and voting. At the same time, he has taken Justice Kennedy’s place as the swing vote at the court’s ideological center, making him the most powerful chief justice in 80 years.
But all of that new power comes at a dangerous time for the court, whose legitimacy depends on the public perception that it is not a partisan institution. “We don’t work as Democrats or Republicans,” Chief Justice Roberts said in 2016, and he reiterated that position in an extraordinary rebuke of President Trump last month.
He seemed to underscore that point again on Friday, joining the court’s four-member liberal wing, all appointed by Democratic presidents, to reject a request from the Trump administration in a case that could upend decades of asylum policy. Earlier this month, he drew sharp criticism from three conservative colleagues for voting to deny review in two cases on efforts to stop payments to Planned Parenthood.
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Strange new respect.
Roberts is captain underpants. He leads NOTHING!
Total sell out
Bush presidency becoming less and less relavent each day.
Hollywood taking chainsaw to Cheney.
Still no pushback from W?
Grow some ball$ man!
I’ve given up on W, and the Bull$hit Bush clan.
They were NOT interested in protecting USA.
They were swamp creatures!!!!
MAGA!
the ginsberg movie is coming out thug week and she will be made a saint. Look for oscar nominations for both movies.
Roberts blows with the wind - more concerned with perception of the court than doing right by the constitution and American citizens. lukewarm.
Rope.
Tree.
Some assembly required.
Roberts is full of excrement. Overflowing.
Hes no better than socialist libtards who lie to our faces, demanding we believe their lies, and get pised when we do not.
Hes the exact same thing.
Maybe the meaning of “conservative” has changed & we weren’t notified.
He is controlled. Roberts needs to be removed from the bench.
HERO OF THE LEFT NOW! He was scum when he decided obamacare was constitutional, he’s a traitor and he is still scum today
They’re cut from a similar cloth.
For all the raves about the Federalist Society, I increasingly think they are not our friends.
By his voting pattern recently, It looks move like Roberts is trying to establish a block to move the court left ...
The Slimes has it backward - his only “attempt to make it look like SCOTUS is not partisan” is that he will have to move further to the left to override the actual constitutional Justices...
Voting with the liberals is sure an excellent plan to prove you’re a non-partan conservative.
Actually, it proves you’re a partisan liberal.
Chief Justice John Roberts is now the Supreme Court’s swing vote
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is all but certain to shift the ideology of the court to the right
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As the court’s swing vote, Kennedy is what political scientists call the “median justice.” Plot out the ideology of the court’s nine members, and you’ll find Kennedy smack in the middle with four conservatives on one side and four liberals on the other. The median justice wields considerable power on the court: On decisions that split neatly by ideology, you can’t have a majority without the median justice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/27/chief-justice-john-roberts-is-now-the-supreme-courts-swing-vote/?utm_term=.26de7385a17d
I think Tea Party has gone global. Yellow vests.
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