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Courting Change
The Page by Mark Halperin —
istockphoto.com NYT on the influence of Chief Justice Roberts and how the groundwork has been laid that may move the supreme court right.
Courting Change
The Page by Mark Halperin —
istockphoto.com NY Times looks at Chief Justice Roberts and whether his influence could move the Supreme Court right. Plus: The Court plans to rule on ...
ThinkFast: July 1, 2009
Think Progress —
... in leading the Supreme Court on a “patient and steady move to the right” this term. While the court took “mainly incremental steps in major cases,” Roberts’ “fingerprints were on all of them, and he left clues that the court is only one decision away from fundamental change in many areas of the law.” ...
"The arrival of a neophyte justice coupled with Chief Justice Roberts’s increasing mastery of the judicial machinery..."
Althouse —
"... foreshadow a widening gap between the Democratic-led political branches and the Supreme Court. Indeed, the court appears poised to move to the right in the Obama era." ...
Roberts Inches Supreme Court Further to the Right
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Chief Justice John Roberts "emerged as a canny strategist at the Supreme Court this term, laying the groundwork for bold changes that could take the court to the right even as the recent elections moved the nation to the left," the New York Times reports. ...
Conservative "Legislation From The Bench"
TalkLeft —
... “judicial activist” label that Republicans like to use in debates over nominees to the federal courts, including Judge Sotomayor. In the firefighters’ case, she actually refused to second-guess the city’s decision — an act of judicial restraint. It was the court’s conservatives, including Chief Justice John Roberts, who voted to overturn the decision of an elected government. (Emphasis supplied.) Half a demerit to Adam Liptak: Justices Scalia and Thomas [as opposed to Chief Justice Roberts and ...
Hullabaloo — ... . The talk the language of "strict originalism" and just being umpires calling balls and strikes, but in reality, they use the means at their disposal to make the decisions that fit a right-wing ideology. John Roberts, with help from Anthony Kennedy, has radically shifted the Court. ...
Papers Play Up "Bold' Turn to the Right at High Court, Suggest Sotomayor Can't Stop the Tide
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The Times headline was "The Roberts Court, Tipped by Kennedy." Reporter Adam Liptak insisted Roberts "emerged as a canny strategist at the Supreme Court this term, laying the groundwork for bold changes that could take the court to the right even as the recent elections moved the nation to the left." ...
