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The Roberts Court?

The Roberts Court?


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After Robert's leaping into bed with Obama in order to wrongfully find Obamacare Constitutional, we don't even need a Supreme Court, we can just flip a coin and get results as valid. There is no reliable means of prediction or classification of the court now and the Constitution and laws mean nothing.
 
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The Roberts Court?


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Leans Conservative, but not as far as some would like. If they had a DP lean it would be "Slightly Conservative" or "Moderate."
 
After Robert's leaping into bed with Obama regarding Obamacare, we don't even need a Supreme Court, we can just flip a coin and get results as valid. There is no reliable means of prediction or classification of the court now.

"I disagree with this decision, therefore the whole system is broken!"

Maybe, just maybe, Roberts knows a little more about the Constitution than you do.
 
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The members of our Supreme Court possess far above average intellect..so they simply cannot be labeled as con, libert, or lib.
It depends so much on the issue being in front of them.
 
After Robert's leaping into bed with Obama in order to wrongfully find Obamacare Constitutional, we don't even need a Supreme Court, we can just flip a coin and get results as valid. There is no reliable means of prediction or classification of the court now and the Constitution and laws mean nothing.

TBH, I suspect that his decision was.a.pre-election poison pill.

Hoping for a rep win to do away with the ACA.
 
"I disagree with this decision, therefore the whole system is broken!"

Maybe, just maybe, Roberts knows a little more about the Constitution than you do.

Ha! You like that damn Constitution now, don't you?
 
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The members of our Supreme Court possess far above average intellect..so they simply cannot be labeled as con, libert, or lib.
It depends so much on the issue being in front of them.

There are a couple justices that are a bit too openly political. Keynote speakers at conservative events etc.
 
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The members of our Supreme Court possess far above average intellect..so they simply cannot be labeled as con, libert, or lib.
It depends so much on the issue being in front of them.

This. Serious, scholarly interpretations of the Constitution have very little to with political ideology. One's views on government may shape one's beliefs on what the Constitution means and what role the Court should play, but interpretations do not fit into camps like conservative, liberal, or libertarian. Probably the best contemporary example is Clarence Thomas. He's widely seen as the most conservative justice on the court. He may be a conservative in his overall worldview, but many of his votes have been decidedly non-conservative. The most important example is his dissent in Gonzalez vs Raich where he said that the federal government had no authority to punish people who grow their own marijuana. Some have said that Thomas is instead more libertarian. Even then, his rulings, such as his dissent in Lawrence vs Texas which struck down a set of sodomy laws, show that he doesn't always rule this way either. If anything his dissent proves my point. He pointed out that he strongly disagreed with the sodomy laws, but just thought that sodomy wasn't protected by the Constitution. None of this stuff is a secret. If you want to actually understand the justices' judicial philosophy turn off Fox News or MSNBC and actually read their opinions.
 
Ha! You like that damn Constitution now, don't you?

I never said I didn't. I guess that doesn't fit in with your "lefty" stereotype so...go on thinking whatever you want
 
...leans anti-human.

There's too many anti-liberty extremist left wing totalitarians in the SCOTUS.
 
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I too, actually love our Constitution...it has for centuries worked very well.
But I'll never wrap myself in it, as many here do.....its paper, old frail , brittle paper..
Originally, I believe it was one page...the 1776 version; todays its 1,776,000,000 pages, with all the SCOTUS decisions...
W must go by today...
And stereotypes are out !
And labels, too.
 
I will never forget Kelo vs City of New London, the notorious eminent domain abuse case. I wasn't surprised that the "liberal" judges had voted for the right of governments to trample all over the least protected citizens, but Anthony Kennedy - the moderate, kinda libertarian, scholarly Anthony Kennedy - concurring - that was a real shock.

And then it occurred to me that the "people in the middle" - people actually focused on the legal side of the issues, rather than on the ideological implications (which is how the SCOTUS is supposed to operate anyway) - well, they are not predictable in their decisions, from our unprofessional, politicized points of view. Just let them be and do their job.

When Salome Roberts delivered the head of American health care to Obama, on a silver plate, I was not pleased, to put it mildly.

But was he wrong, in the context of the job he is supposed to do?

The Social Security had faced similar challenges (you can't force people to buy old-age insurance!), and was, likewise, exonerated by the Supreme Court on the basis of the obvious fact: The Social Security contributions are just another federal tax masquerading as something else. Ditto for the coerced insurance buying under the Obamacare.

With Roberts and Kennedy around, the Court is not more "liberal" or "conservative" - merely more professional. Are we going to like consequences of such improvement? Sometimes. Sometimes not. Whoever we are , on the political spectrum.
 
Its pretty big common sense that the Roberts court is pretty damn conservative.
 
I don't know, but I still wish that Justice Richard Posner was on it.
 
The moderate-iest court ever. 4 liberals, 4 conservatives, one coin-toss, and a Chief Justice who's really reluctant to make any big, sweeping decisions.
 
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