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But in doing so, they also embroiled the court in the very partisan contentiousness from which Roberts tries to insulate the court.
Tierney Sneed channeling Lauren Fox.
The idea that John Roberts has tried to protect the court from politics is absurd on its face. It doesn’t bear consideration.
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Total rubbish. Roberts is the same as Scalia. His record is clear and for all to see.
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1000% correct.
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“But that doesn’t mean he isn’t concerned about his legacy as a chief…"
You mean the legacy of being the worst ever Chief Justice reigning over the naked politicization of the court?
That legacy?
I’ve scooped up better legacies from my dogs.
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Ah, but Roberts himself has said, in his infinite “wisdom”, that the court Doesn’t rule politically, and we mere mortals are mistaken.
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Roberts would be horrified by a Democratic appointment and would rather proceed with eight judges. Isn’t this obvious? He’s a political hack of the first order.
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What Does John Roberts Think Of The Battle Over Scalia's Successor?
Shouldn’t this headline be:
What do Law School Professors think John Roberts thinks of the Battle over Scalia's Successor?
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And to think I clicked on and read this article, assuming that the Chief Justice had spoken on this topic. A better headline might be :
What a Bunch of People Think John Roberts Might Be Thinking About the Battle Over Scalia’s Successor.
Edit: Frankly My Dear and I must have posted at the same time…great minds and all.
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I don’t know about “great minds”, but certainly ones highly attuned to the smell of bullshit.
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My thoughts exactly. A big fat nothing burger.
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This issue is 100% a constitutional questions, the work that the SCOTUS is being paid to do.
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If Roberts truly cares about the court as an institution he must recuse himself from any 4/4 cases so that the result will be the same as it would if Obama were allowed to nominate a justice.
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Yeah, like that’s going to happen.
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What does any thinking American think Chief Justice Roberts, the worse in my 73 years, of Pr. Obama naming a replacement for Scalia, well I remember clearly that Chief Justice was so shook up at having to swear in a black man as President, he screwed it up and had to do it over!!
That’s what he thinks!!!
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I agree, after reversing a Supreme Court precedent when he agreed to Citizen’s United and his dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, the damage was done.
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Actually, I am very skeptical of that. A 4-4 Court has its power and image seriously diminished. Every tie essentially gives the lower court the power. In fact, a 4-4 Court is for all purposes, a liberal court already…only without any power. They best they can ever hope for is a tie…which upholds the lower courts decision. The worst is Kennedy joins with the liberals again and its a 5-3 decision.
No Chief Justice wants his Court being diminished that much. There are many matters of law and precedent to be dealt with that don’t make the front page like SSM, and Roberts wants a full court to go after some of those.
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Yes, I was wondering why under the headline What Does John Roberts Think Of The Battle Over Scalia’s Successor? there were no thoughts from John Roberts in it whatsoever.
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Among the many things I can imagine John Roberts thinking besides I better get really tight with Anthony Kennedy so as
to keep him on the reservation unfailingly, are thoughts not that different from McConnell, et al. To wit: is Trump
going to be the nominee, how much blood is on the floor from the effort to stop him, and what do that and the Scalia
vacancy along with the odiferous Republican brand portend for the Fall? If by Summer, it’s Trump, the Republican
convention looks like a hemophiliac ward, and there’s no clear sign of Democratic somnambulance in November, McConnell
with Robert’s tacit approval will be looking for a deal with the President and Senate Democrats to make the best of a
bad situation by limiting the damage with a moderate (an actual one) nominee at least getting a vote. Of course, in
the back of his mind, Roberts must hope the disenfranchisement, voter suppression cases (which are now in stasis at 4
-4) are sufficiently damaging, as is, to Democrat’s turnout to make it all moot.
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“As the debate over whether President Barack Obama should be allowed to nominate someone for the Supreme Court grows ever more rancorous in the halls of Congress, it is no doubt echoing across the street in the quieter quarters of the Supreme Court.”
I object to the first part of that statement. There is no “debate” as to whether POTUS should be allowed to nominate. There is his constitutional duty and the blind obstructionism of the GOP looking only to keep the court stacked towards extreme right wing conservatism.
However I agree with the rest of the article.
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