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Teddy Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 'I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that.' TR was as mistaken about Holmes' spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts.
the Supreme Court argument on Arizona’s ‘show me your papers’ law, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the government’s lawyer were wrong to suggest that the case didn’t involve racial profiling.
Before you get into what the case is about, I'd like to clear up at the outset what it's not about. No part of your argument has to do with racial or ethnic profiling, does itMore quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Supreme Court's options on health care law
arguments are done and the case has been submitted, as Chief Justice John Roberts says at the end of every Supreme Court argument. Now the justices will wrestle with what to do with President Barack Obama 's health care overhaul. They have a range of options, Read more »
Around the web
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Progressive Breakfast
The New Republic's Jeffrey Rosen: ...I’ve been giving him the benefit of the doubt for the past six years. But Roberts has already presided over a Court that has struck down campaign finance reform and affirmative action by bitterly divided 5-4 votes. If 7:21 AM from Health Care For All Read more »
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John Marttila: 2012: Seeing the Long Arc of American Democracy Reversed
Mitt, congratulations. At long last, you are the official Republican nominee for president. And a special shout-out to the people without whom your victory would have been impossible: I am speaking of course, of John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kenn from The Huffington Post Read more »
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The Audacity of Dopes
In three weeks or so, the Supreme Court will rule on health care. Republicans have been discussing what they might do in the event that poor, beleaguered John Roberts manages to withstand that vicious assault of the liberals and to lead a majority that s from The Daily Beast Read more »
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Constitutional Death for Obamacare? The Left Threatens John Roberts and the Supreme Court by Doug Bandow
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. The Constitution created a national government of limited, enumerated powers. Over the years the Supreme Court dismantled many of the original b from Cato Institute Read more »
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Justices going to Europe, so key decisions likely coming soon
That's because professor John Roberts, also known as chief justice of the United States, has a morning law school class to teach the first week of July. On Malta. To the north, and at a much higher elevation, professor Antonin Scalia will put his law stu from Fort Worth Star-Telegram Read more »
