[montanajoe]

Roberts is a conservative justice in the original sense..that is he believes in judicial restraint. He views his job as upholding a statute passed by the congress as presumptively valid and if he can find a reason to find it valid he will.

As Chief Justice he is by his actions very aware that we are in the era of the Roberts Court. He wants to be seen as the umpire, as he said in his confirmation, not a player for either team.

I suspect he views the pattern of the Congress over the last 40 years or so of dumping all the hard issues on the SC to decide so that the politicians can avoid responsibility of their actions is BS.

He took the biggest case to date in his tenure to tell the Congress to grow up and do their job..

[Txngal]

And it’s up to US to make Congress do their job. Honestly, we’ve become to complacent with our Congress critters. This needs to stop today. You’ve summed up what’s been weighing on my mind all day.

[Alberta's Child]

My sentiments exactly. You said it much more bluntly than I did. LOL.

He took the biggest case to date in his tenure to tell the Congress to grow up and do their job.

[mo]

“He took the biggest case to date in his tenure to tell the Congress to grow up and do their job.. “

Almost. He’s telling We the People to get up off our sofas, turn off American Idol...and exercise our responsibility to oversee our employees on Capitol Hill.

[uncbob]

He wants to be seen as the umpire, as he said in his confirmation, not a player for either team.

Yeah well he gets to vote so that reasoning is suspect

[Girlene]

How can you call what he did today....judicial restraint? That was judicial activism, rewriting the law.