Posted on 02/08/2019 7:37:04 AM PST by SMGFan
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court's liberal wing on Thursday in temporarily blocking a Louisiana law that would have placed restrictions on abortion clinics, in the high court's first major ruling on abortion since the confirmation of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The ruling comes as Roberts, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, has increasingly and deliberately sought to present the federal judiciary as nonpartisan, amid a flurry of attacks from progressive groups arguing that the Supreme Court's new conservative majority imperils the country. Last year, in a highly unusual statement, Roberts rebuked President Trump for criticizing partisanship in the federal judiciary.
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Will never forget that.
Thanks George W. Bush.
Bush wasn’t fooled, Roberts is exactly what he wanted.
Harriet Miers was W’s FIRST PICK.
When he announced Miers the uprising against her made him pick someone who could slide in with no real resistance. Johns Roberts.
Double entendres were intentional, I take it.
Roberts was picked to replace Rhenquist, and he was confirmed.
Miers was picked to replace O’Connor, and she withdrew here nomination after appropriate heat was brought to bear. Bush nominated Alito to take that opening, and he was confirmed.
Roberts loves the unique position he’s in now as both Chief Justice and swing vote. Hopefully, Trump will soon replace a liberal and thereby make Kavanaugh the swing vote.
UGH, he was supposed to be a Thomas/Scalia and now he’s a Kennedy
They got the dirt on this turd! He has not been with the ones that got him appointed! He needs to be removed!
Once again, the rotten egacy of the Bush family lives on in the Supreme Court.
Justice Souter from here in NH was the same way. Supposedly a conservative, but became a liberal after moving to DC.
Did somebody dig up dirt on him too? We may never know.
What we do know is that the democrats play dirty. They always have and they always will. Trump also knows how to play dirty and beat them at their own game. THAT is why they HATE HIM.
Well, he hasn’t been part of the “liberal wing”. He has been slightly to the right of the center if we apply political terminology to judicial matters. Without Anthony Kennedy he is likely to become a new “swing vote.”
You still think Bush wanted a conservative?
There was a funny Twitter pic that showed Ginsburg haunting the Library of Congress. It was a photoshop from the "Ghostbusters" movie.
Shortly after Roberts’ appointment to the court I heard him speak at a university I lived near at the time.
He was learned, witty, polished, humorous confident, CONSERVATIVE, conservative and proud of it.
He spoke just for a short while, then took questions for at least an hour. I’d never heard a better presentation. I remember thinking at the time: This is what the Founding Fathers must have sounded like.
Whatever has come over him must be damned good, from the Deep State point of view...and damned bad for him and us.
UGH, he was supposed to be a Thomas/Scalia and now he’s a Kennedy.
I read a post on another internet forum in which an apparently left-leaning person was relieved when he learned that John Roberts was nominated.
He was the so-called “swing vote” with Kennedy still in there. The falsely-derived imposition of the Zerocare mandate as a “tax” is not on any other justice.
RINOs always sway rightward when politically expedient. We saw Mitch McConnell doing it during Obama’s lame-duck term in the refusal to confirm Merrick Garland, for one example.
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