Supreme Court, in 5-4 Ruling, Strikes Down Restrictive Louisiana Abortion Law

NBC ^ | 06/29/20 | Pete Williams

[ScottinVA]

Souteroberts.. again.

[aquila48]

It’s gotten to the point where it’s best for conservatives to not appeal things to the Supreme Court until there is a solid conservative majority.

Getting a ruling from the Supreme pretty much casts in concrete whereas if you stop at a lower court even if you lose you have a chance to overturn it when you get a truly conservative Supreme Court.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

There's no point getting frustrated or angry or wondering what anyone has on Roberts - this is just who he is. Roberts will serve on the court another 15-20 years, and joins the 4 liberals in a solid liberal majority. The only hope is for one of the liberals (such as the aging Ruth Bader Ginsburg) to vacate a seat so a Republican president can appoint a conservative to provide a majority.

Vote Trump, and hope he is done with the Federalist Society and their BS. No more "judicial restraint" and "textualists" - we need strong right-wing activists appointed to the bench, not some cipher who will betray us yet again.

[ealgeone]

Roberts has been a complete and utter bust.

[nwrep]

Acc. to Roberts, stare decisis is more important than States’ Rights.

[Mr. Jeeves]

George W. Bush was THE WORST president until Obama and even then ties with Obama.

I think GWB was the model for the Biden Presidency. His "expert team" of neocons made all of the decisions, did all of the strategic planning and thinking...all George had to do was show up in front of the cameras once in a while and try not to embarrass himself too much.

The Left clearly thinks they can use Biden in the same role, with a hardcore team of collectivists reshaping the country while Joe stands above the controversy spitting out folksy malaprops at irregular intervals to reassure older people that, no, there really aren't any plans to ship them off to the Gulag.

[Songcraft]

Abort Roberts.

[ssfromla]

...a surprising victory for abortion rights advocates from an increasingly conservative court.

What rock did this guy just crawl out from under?

Term limits on these people is the only way to get them under control. I am sick to death of them being in charge over me when I didn't vote for a damn one of them.

No one should have a job for life and be able to lie through their teeth during hearings, be pressured, coerced and/or bribed like these jokers are.

It's open season on babies and the baby part selling in this country.

God, please don't bring down your wrath on us for what these evil monsters are doing.

It's coming too. I'm sure he's had enough of this with our country. If he heard Abel's blood crying out can you even begin to imagine what he hears from those babies? /tear

[OrangeHoof]

As disappointing as this is, it may actually be a good thing. Had this passed, it would have militarized the feminists who have deep tentacles even inside the Republican Party. They would have mobilized to elect Biden over Trump.

Now, we can wait for Ginsburg to croak (she can’t last another four years, can she?) and have Trump nominate a pro-lifer that will give the conservatives a 5-4 majority (even without Roberts) when the case comes up again. Of course, it doesn’t mean someone like Gorsuch or Kavanaugh won’t switch sides the next time but if it comes out during Trump’s second term, there won’t be a way to fight back.

[BigB60]

Roberts at his confirmation hearing in 2005, “Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules; they apply them.” Time and time again, Roberts has demonstrated that is not an umpire(or at least a good one) but a pitcher or batter in the game. Is goal is not to be the impartial arbiter but to affect social outcomes, no different than the batter or the pitcher. Senate should draft impeachment proceedings just to put him on notice. They won’t impeach but it would be a severe rebuke nonetheless.

[gas_dr]

Evil is never good and should never be called good. This will continue to insure lives lost in butchery shops that claim they are health care. This is a dark day for us, and Justice Roberts is now full on Justice Souter.

[rdl6989]

The 5-4 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the courts liberal justices...

Here we go again.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Who are the SCOTUS Judges appointed by Republican Presidents that have been the greatest turncoats?

I know of two that are in the running-—

David Souter, appointed by George Herbert Walker Bush

John Roberts, appointed by George Walker Bush

Any others?

On the other side of the aisle, Who are the SCOTUS Judges appointed by Democrat Presidents that have been turncoats?

[Lockbox]

Time to remove restriction Gun Right laws!

[Stravinsky]

I think the Federalist Society approach is reasonable when dealing with a large number of lower court appointments, but the Supreme Court is another matter. The Right can’t afford to get it wrong with the Supreme Court because the Left hasn’t had an unreliable justice on the bench since Byron White stepped down in 1993.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Breyer wrote the opinion.

Roberts wrote his own Concurring opinion. Starts on page 46.

Thomas wrote the dissent
About 15 pages.

Alito wrote a separate dissent
Gorsuch wrote a separate dissent.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/june-medical-services-russo-supreme-court-abortion-ruling/

[Red in Blue PA]

Thanks again W!/s

[cowboyusa]

Hang him!

[campaignPete R-CT]

135 pages. Approx

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6959225-18-1323-c07d.html#document/p1

See above

[Nero Germanicus]

George W. Bush also appointed Samuel Alito, as solid a conservative as there has ever been on the Court. Roberts used to be a solid conservative vote too. He has changed. It has happened throughout the history of the Court. When you give someone a lifetime appointment there is no predicting what they will do decades down the line.