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eschatonblog.com - 5/19/2009
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Toobin describes him perfectly. Roberts’s hard-edged performance at oral argument offers more than just a rhetorical contrast to the rendering of himself that he presented at his confirmation hearing. “Judges are like umpires,” Roberts said at the time. “Umpires don’t make the rules. They ...
Don't know where to start... (by Russell Roberts)
cafehayek.com - 5/13/2009
Don't know where to start... (by Russell Roberts)
— cafehayek.com — Except to say that nationalization would be more honest than this.... (more) Don't know where to start... (by Russell Roberts)
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Chief Justice John Roberts: The Conformist
tbogg.firedoglake.com - 5/19/2009
Chief Justice John Roberts: The Conformist
— tbogg.firedoglake.com — Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. : Roberts’s hard-edged performance at oral argument offers more than... just a rhetorical contrast to the rendering of himself that he presented at his confirmation hearing. “Judges are like umpires,” ... (more) Chief Justice John Roberts: The Conformist

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Lawyers, Guns and Money:  The Reverse Nuremberg Defense, Supreme Court Edition

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The Reverse Nuremberg Defense, Supreme Court Edition
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... on John Roberts later. But the bottom-line quote -- "The kind of humility that Roberts favors reflects a view that the Court should almost always defer to the existing power relationships in society" -- applies quite forcefully (as it usually does) to all of the Court's conservatives in the most recent Anthony Kennedy atrocity, Ashcroft v. Iqbal. ...

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