Re: SCOTUS 14: Confirming a Rabid Partisan to Own the Libs
Roberts will inherently be Kennedy because he's now the de facto ideological center. That doesn't mean he moved left to the center, it means the center moved right to him.
The question for him is whether his desire to protect the court outweighs his natural ideological leanings. The Obamacare decisions show he's capable of the former, but his votes on gay marriage, abortion, and race-based cases tend towards the latter. But now that he is the swing vote rather than Kennedy, we'll see if being the tiebreaker weighs more heavily on him.
My favorite part about Roberts is that he constantly sided with police on traffic stop cases until he was pulled over for the first time in his life. All of a sudden he started siding with motorists.
Originally posted by SJHovey
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The question for him is whether his desire to protect the court outweighs his natural ideological leanings. The Obamacare decisions show he's capable of the former, but his votes on gay marriage, abortion, and race-based cases tend towards the latter. But now that he is the swing vote rather than Kennedy, we'll see if being the tiebreaker weighs more heavily on him.
My favorite part about Roberts is that he constantly sided with police on traffic stop cases until he was pulled over for the first time in his life. All of a sudden he started siding with motorists.
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