Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Will John Roberts be remembered in history the same as Benedict Arnold?

Posted on 06/28/2012 7:39:44 AM PDT by Sybeck1

When some is called a Benedict Arnold he is deemed a traitor. Will being called a John Roberts go to mean the same?


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: obamacare; roberts
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-139 next last
To: Sybeck1

When Roberts was nominated, conservative commentators went so far as to say he was a man of courage. That deeply offended me because I knew exactly the type of person who spent their life at a big law firm. That is all John Roberts is.


61 posted on 06/28/2012 8:02:29 AM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sybeck1

John Roberts is the enemy of free men everywhere. Pure scum.


62 posted on 06/28/2012 8:02:41 AM PDT by Astronaut
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sybeck1

It is the alleged speaker weeper’s turn, congress has to approve taxes as this was passed as a fee waving a wand won’t change it.


63 posted on 06/28/2012 8:02:56 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sybeck1

yes


64 posted on 06/28/2012 8:03:38 AM PDT by rushmom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sybeck1

I wonder what Bush feels like today - like Ike did with Earl Warren?


65 posted on 06/28/2012 8:04:25 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kansas58
To me it is a distinction without a difference. The gov't can say eat your broccoli but we will not mandate it but you pay a tax if you do not eat the gov't dictated amount. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall understood this when in McCullough v. Maryland he stated,

That the power to tax involves the power to destroy

66 posted on 06/28/2012 8:04:31 AM PDT by C19fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: Kansas58

Apparently you are wrong, Roberts was the swing vote on the mandate and could have struck it down.


67 posted on 06/28/2012 8:04:48 AM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: rawhide
"After today, I am dropping out of the political process. Let the RATS have it all for all I care! Every seat. Make Reid or Ploski president for all I care! Why care anymore? Also, the Republican party might as well cease to exist. They are worthless as a political party. Absolutely worthless!"

Not a single objection from the republican party as the Usurper was installed as commander-in-chief. Screw the GOP. They should all be tried for treason.

68 posted on 06/28/2012 8:06:12 AM PDT by Godebert (NO PERSON EXCEPT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Sybeck1
Roberts has guaranteed himself a place in Hell.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920


69 posted on 06/28/2012 8:07:33 AM PDT by Viking2002 ("If you're gonna hang out in places like this, wear a badge on your didey.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sybeck1
Here's a novel idea, never nominate an Ivy League graduate as a Judge....PERIOD!
70 posted on 06/28/2012 8:10:07 AM PDT by lormand (A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Viking2002

this is Dredd Scott for the 21st century.

simply an infamous decision because it codified slavery back into the us law.

obamacare = slavery


71 posted on 06/28/2012 8:10:32 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: longtermmemmory
What is the legal procedure for removing a Supreme Court justice?

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920


72 posted on 06/28/2012 8:15:37 AM PDT by Viking2002 ("If you're gonna hang out in places like this, wear a badge on your didey.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: Kansas58
You make good points.

In the coming weeks we'll get many educated, informed opinions on this ruling from legitimate constitutional experts. The dust has to settle.

73 posted on 06/28/2012 8:19:06 AM PDT by floozy22 (ACA: Repeal ! Repeal ! Repeal !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: Kansas58
However, it must be stated that we would have lost on several counts, even if we had Roberts on our side on every count.

It was a 5-4 decision. If Roberts had not voted to uphold the entire thing would have been declared unconstitutional.

74 posted on 06/28/2012 8:19:19 AM PDT by Will88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: SCalGal
God bless Justices Thomas, Scalia, and Alito. And Kennedy on this one

That makes this even MORE (if possible) distressing -- there were the votes we needed and instead of joining the 4 - Roberts sides with the left! A sad, sad day for our country.

75 posted on 06/28/2012 8:19:42 AM PDT by Momto2 (I hate it when I wake up and Obama is President.......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: cbvanb

Without Roberts’ vote, the count would have been five and four. The little Mall Cop Paul Blart character Elena Kagan SHOULD have recused herself from this vote, which would have then made the final vote 4-4, a hung decision. But siding with the majority, even though so many think that a travesty in and of itself, assured the deadlock would not happen.

Moving on from that, this decision is open to so many different way of dealing with the outcome. Like that of the Dred Scott decision, eventually the result was the 14th Amendment, but not until after a civil war ripped the nation at its seams, and enormous amounts of strife had to be endured.

The mandate is now legally declared to be a tax, and not an exercise of the Commerce Clause. Taxes, the Congress of the United States is prepared to deal with. And since an increase in taxes is a highly unpopular item right now, fighting for the repeal of Obamacare in the name of lowering taxes on everybody, not just the wealthy, as the Democrats are so fond of prating about, has to have a much wider appeal than first thought.

“Preservation of unconstitutional law” is simply the Court’s reluctance to reverse itself - ever. Hark back to the Dredd Scott decision: Theoretically, until the passage of the 14th Amendment, persons of African descent, even though freed from slavery, could not be US citizens, regardless of place of birth. The decision itself was never reversed.


76 posted on 06/28/2012 8:20:52 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fear and intimidation work. At least on the short term.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: alloysteel

This is the Dred Scott court deciding for the liberal plantation owners.


77 posted on 06/28/2012 8:23:04 AM PDT by aruanan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: unixfox

“I hope the son-of-a-bitch traitor dies of a slow dibilitating disease.”

I seem to recall that, early in his tenure, Roberts had a seizure of some sort that caused him to pass out. Hence, hopefully not but you may get your wish. Let’s hope nothing happens to him while O is still in office.


78 posted on 06/28/2012 8:25:29 AM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: howlinhound
Let’s hope nothing happens to him while O is still in office.

Why? What's the difference?

79 posted on 06/28/2012 8:26:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: Kansas58
That Roberts written opinion clearly says that Congress did not have the power under the Commerce Clause to impose the mandate, and it clearly says this is a TAX!

Isn't that a distinction without a difference? They don't have the power to force you buy broccoli, but they have the power to "tax" (penalize) you if you don't buy broccoli. As long as the tax for not buying broccoli exceeds the cost of buying broccoli, everyone is, in essence, forced to buy broccoli.

80 posted on 06/28/2012 8:27:46 AM PDT by KevinB (We'll stop treating Obama like a dog when he stops treating us like a fire hydrant - Fred Grandy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-139 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson