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Roberts' Dissent: Maybe there's hope for him after all?
CNN ^ | 6/26 | C.J. Roberts

Posted on 06/26/2015 9:06:20 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

"But this Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be. The people who ratified the Constitution authorized courts to exercise “neither force nor will but merely judgment.” Although the policy arguments for extending marriage to same-sex couples may be compelling, the legal arguments for requiring such an extension are not. The fundamental right to marry does not include a right to make a State change its definition of marriage. And a State’s decision to maintain the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history can hardly be called irrational. In short, our Constitution does not enact any one theory of marriage. The people of a State are free to expand marriage to include same-sex couples, or to retain the historic definition. Today, however, the Court takes the extraordinary step of ordering every State to license and recognize same-sex marriage. Many people will rejoice at this decision, and I begrudge none their celebration. But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority’s approach is deeply disheartening. Supporters of same-sex marriage have achieved considerable success persuading their fellow citizens—through the democratic process—to adopt their view. That ends today. Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law. Stealing this issue from the people will for many cast a cloud over same-sex marriage, making a dramatic social change that much more difficult to accept."

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Ugh....
1 posted on 06/26/2015 9:06:20 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

No. No there is not.


2 posted on 06/26/2015 9:07:17 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
I agree.
C.J. Roberts should be horse whipped for such BULL CRAP !
3 posted on 06/26/2015 9:08:38 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Yeah, right. Waaaaaaay tooooo late. Where is that Jennifer Lawrence video when you need it?
4 posted on 06/26/2015 9:08:47 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I can’t see how there’s any “hope” for a guy whose dissent on 6/26 basically argues with his opinion on 6/25 so fundamentally.

“We’re here to say what the law is, not what we want it to be... UNLESS we’re talking about Obamacare, of course”.


5 posted on 06/26/2015 9:08:58 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He voted this way today because he wanted us to consider liking him again...cynical bastard...


6 posted on 06/26/2015 9:09:25 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: TangledUpInBlue
No.

-PJ

7 posted on 06/26/2015 9:09:41 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

No. They didn’t need his vote, so he wasn’t given instructions how to vote.


8 posted on 06/26/2015 9:10:07 AM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

There is NO hope for Roberts.

He is the worst sort of hypocrite and liar.


9 posted on 06/26/2015 9:10:55 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Roberts is behaving like a RINO in congress. There was no need for him to waste political capital on such an emotional issue when ‘victory’ was already in the bag.


10 posted on 06/26/2015 9:10:59 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Political Junkie Too

Just to balance the scale and at the same time take a position without upsetting the outcome


11 posted on 06/26/2015 9:11:08 AM PDT by tbird-james
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Seems just like him playing a part in a Kabuki play.
Kind of like the Republicans who will vote on the 'right' side when the Bill is destined to lose. All for show.
12 posted on 06/26/2015 9:11:45 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I wonder how George Bush feels right now??? He should be beyond ashamed and humiliated....or maybe he is not?


13 posted on 06/26/2015 9:11:56 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Ingtar

Sadly, I tend to agree with this - and how it relates with what C. Edmund says above in #6.


14 posted on 06/26/2015 9:12:14 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Maybe there's hope for him after all?

No.

15 posted on 06/26/2015 9:13:18 AM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
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To: Ingtar

“No. They didn’t need his vote, so he wasn’t given instructions how to vote.”

Bingo!!!


16 posted on 06/26/2015 9:13:25 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Yesterday he says Yea to Obamacare.

Today he says Nay to same sex.....

I say GOOD COP BAD COP at work here.

he also says: Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be.....REALLY? Obamacare?

17 posted on 06/26/2015 9:13:35 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Nope,
No hope for him or his soul.


18 posted on 06/26/2015 9:13:40 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Hope I’m not standing next to him on judgment day.......I might get singed.


19 posted on 06/26/2015 9:15:04 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

There is no hope for Roberts...Krauthammer said it best, no use heading anything else on Obamacare to the Supreme Court because Roberts likes it and will (and now has twice) protect(s) it.


20 posted on 06/26/2015 9:15:27 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else!)
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