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To: nerdgirl

Wow....what a great and insightful article....

Thanks for posting it....

-——Marshall’s example had taught him, Roberts said, that personal trust in the chief justice’s lack of an ideological agenda was very important, and Marshall’s ability to win this kind of trust inspired him. “If I’m sitting there telling people, ‘We should decide the case on this basis,’ and if [other justices] think, ‘That’s just Roberts trying to push some agenda again,’ they’re not likely to listen very often,” he observed. -——

At least now I understand why he threw American under the Obama bus....his personal legacy


32 posted on 07/01/2012 6:06:37 PM PDT by Popman (When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
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To: Popman

Roberts said, that personal trust in the chief justice’s lack of an ideological agenda was very important,

The concept that the plain reading of the US Constittion is the law of the land isn’t an ideological agenda.


60 posted on 07/01/2012 8:09:00 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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