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To: Kaslin
Chief Justice Roberts Is Right: An Unelected Official Should Not Cast Tie-Breaking Votes

And yet an unelected official prevented Rand Paul from getting his question answered.

4 posted on 02/01/2020 5:11:31 PM PST by FreeReign ("Please sit down, resume your seats, put your flags away - youÂ’re leaving - and take them with you.)
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To: FreeReign

I would think that Roberts was looking forward to possibility of the whistle blower being involved in one or more court cases. They would, undoubtedly, go all the way to the Supreme Court of the US. If Roberts had allowed the man’s name to be known, when the case(s) reached the Supreme Court he would have to recuse himself.


11 posted on 02/01/2020 5:44:24 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: FreeReign

“”And yet an unelected official prevented Rand Paul from getting his question answered.””

From even being ASKED!!


13 posted on 02/01/2020 5:48:50 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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C/J Roberts asserted: “If the members of this body, elected by the people and accountable to them,
divide equally on a motion, normal rule is that the motion fails."

Amazing conservative statement.......underlining what we here all believe: the people are in control of the government.

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ROBERTS SUMS UP: I think it would be inappropriate for me, an unelected official from a different branch of government,
to assert the power to change that result so that the motion would succeed,” he explained.

Just wondering....does that also apply to interim appointees to the Congress?

36 posted on 02/02/2020 4:22:31 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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