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The Weakest Link: Left Targets Justice Roberts–Again
It worked last time. Last year, when oral arguments in the Obamacare case seemed to go against the administration, the left targeted Chief Justice John Roberts with a series of attacks from President Barack Obama on down. The attacks may have worked, as Roberts apparently changed his vote and upheld Obamacare by effectively rewriting the legislation itself… Read more »
Sorry, Justice Scalia: There’s no evidence that gay parents aren’t great parents
During Tuesday’s oral arguments, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan asked how same-sex marriage would harm “the institution of marriage”. “I did not pick this up in your briefs,” she told Charles Cooper, the lead lawyer for the defendants. “How does this cause and effect work?” Cooper, perhaps wisely, chose to dodge. “I would reiterate that… Read more »
Chief Justice John Roberts: ‘I Think It’s Only Fair To Treat You The Same’
During the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Tuesday, eight of the nine justices asked questions that are being pored over by the media, in search of some clue as to how the Court will rule on California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state. Along the way, Chief Justice John Roberts summed up what… Read more »