Roberts is confounding the asses on the panel.....and stated the Supreme Court should not be the remedy for social ills. That's just what I wanted to hear.
If you're listening, his positions are acceptable to most conservatives.
Remember, this is a game.....and as Rush just said, the liberal senators are just talking for the record, and the air is really out of their tires.
Roberts is doing a lot of talking, but handing the enemy senators nothing.
Rejoice, the end is NOT near.
Leni
I see the "Roberts is Souter" crowd has arrived to muck up the thread.
If I ever become a serial killer...
I have a lot of work to do.
That was a good one Roberts.
LOL .. Roberts says that he was just about to finish answering the question, but you Senator didn't want to hear it
Arlen slaps Biden again to let Roberts answer the question
Biden whines about his time is running out .. but yet Biden keeps on talking
BUMP
But that is exactly what it has been used for for several generations by liberal activist justices. I want to see a few of those misguided "remedies" reversed, and strict adherence to stare decisis doctrine would not allow that to happen. I'm not at all sure that Roberts would vote to reverse some of those bad decisions, but I am quite sure that Thomas would and reasonably sure that Scalia would also.
I believe I could be satisfied with Roberts' decisions if he was working with a clean sheet of paper, but all justices have to take into consideration bad decisions of the past which are now considered to be settled law. I realize that simply ignoring precedence would create serious problems, and that precedence should have a great deal of influence when justices are forming their own later opinions. But if bad decisions are so deeply graven into stone that they can never be reconsidered, then separate but equal public facilities would still be settled law and public schools, parks, buses, etc would still be racially segregated. I would just like to know how firmly he is committed to stare decisis before I feel comfortable about him.
It isn't liberal Senators that I'm concerned about, Roberts will be confirmed in spite of all their huffing and puffing. It's whether or not Roberts will be the justice the US needs at this crucial time that concerns me.
Millions of us voted for Bush with the understanding that he would probably have an almost unique opportunity to shape the USSC. If his term ends with approximately the same balance on the court that was in place before he came into office, that opportunity will have been squandered on another vain attempt by a Republican president to make friends out of Democrats and mushy-middleroaders who will ever and always hate him and everything he stands for.