Roberts To Conservatives: I Am Not YOUR Bitch
The John Roberts-Anthony Kennedy Smackdown
Posted on July 1, 2012 by emptywheel
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But in this closely-watched case, word of Roberts’ unusual shift has spread widely within the Court, and is known among law clerks, chambers’ aides and secretaries. It also has stirred the ire of the conservative justices, who believed Roberts was standing with them.
It was around this time (in May) that it also became clear to the conservative justices that Roberts was, as one put it, “wobbly,” the sources said.
The two sources say suggestions that parts of the dissent were originally Roberts’ actual majority decision for the Court are inaccurate, and that the dissent was a true joint effort.
The fact that the joint dissent doesn’t mention Roberts’ majority was not a sign of sloppiness, the sources said, but instead was a signal the conservatives no longer wished to engage in debate with him.
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Unless they were making their daily pilgrimage to Glennbeckistan.
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An insane, fascist theocracy:
That was in 2004 and this is why we worry.
There are some who hopeful to avoid such a catastrophe repeating itself in 2012, because of this map from 2008:
Unfortunately, we don't have the post 2010 election map which gave the GOP enough state houses to put us back in 2004, or even 2000. So, we worry.
...keep pissing him off.
- The crazier you act, the closer to the ''correct side'' he'll sidle-up to.......
K&R
Because they had believed Ike had found them a ''safe Republican'' to sit on the court. That is until Brown v. Board of Education.
- Then they were all....
...and they reacted so strongly that Earl jumped all the way in -- and in my opinion that was a very large part of the reason why so many civil rights laws were eventually upheld in his courts. All during the 50's his court made rulings radically changing laws against using force and threats in obtaining ''confessions'' by the police (it was common back then). Then came the Escobedo (right to a lawyer) and then the Miranda Rule (notice that what someone says to the police can and will be used against them). And the poison fruit rulings from illegal police searches, not to mention all of the challenges to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the voting Rights Act. Struck down laws against inter-racial marriage in 1968. All in his courts came rulings bolstered civil liberties all during the 60s.
The old Repukes never for gave him. And they paid the rest of us back by giving us Richard Nixon. And by extension, the Bushes. But back then, a lot of the middle, most of the right-wing and definitely the hardcore John Birchers never trusted him anyway. He was like "a California Republican" (land of the fruits and nuts as they said at the time, as I recall).
- We can only hope that John Roberts chooses to emulate him.....
''History doesn't repeat itself, but it can rhyme.'' ~Mark Twain
