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silvershadow

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11. i just shuddered...
Sun Jul 1, 2012, 12:39 AM
Jul 2012

If this is true (not saying I doubt you at all), then what? Being chief doesn't mean you can declare something out of bounds after the play...he's one of 9, and the chief, but he doesn't make the actual freaking rules for what has happened in the past. I'm confused I guess, I'll look into it more...nevertheless, it's vital Obama win in November because of the SCOTUS...it's where the clash of the ideologies (or what's left of them) will take place for the generations I suppose. They know it. Our side I think and hope does.

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I voted Other because TeamPooka Jun 2012 #1
This. He's a conservative judge, but as chief, didn't want to deligitimize the image of SCOTUS /nt Proles Jun 2012 #8
exactly TeamPooka Jul 2012 #9
so it was a lesser blink yurbud Jul 2012 #18
That's why I voted "Other" too...nt SidDithers Jul 2012 #10
I voted other because Roberts is the right age to know that act is a conservative idea Johonny Jul 2012 #14
I have no clue. Maybe Roberts is ill, we don't know it, and he's Sarah Ibarruri Jun 2012 #2
No, they never blink or quit or back down. MrSlayer Jun 2012 #3
if they never blinked, Bush would have figured out a way to privatize SS without congressional yurbud Jul 2012 #19
No. elleng Jun 2012 #4
He voted for a republican policy potentially limiting xchrom Jun 2012 #5
The five drew straws to see who was going to support the corporatists instead of the crazies.. Fumesucker Jun 2012 #6
He set a dangerous precedent Ruby the Liberal Jun 2012 #7
i just shuddered... silvershadow Jul 2012 #11
Here are a couple of articles about this Ruby the Liberal Jul 2012 #13
I see it more as conservatism and neoliberalism fluttering their eyelashes at one another Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #12
LOL EFerrari Jul 2012 #15
Maybe he saw that, ultimately, this was an argument over a REPUBLICAN policy. Marr Jul 2012 #16
I agree that going the other way COULD have led to Medicare for all, but... yurbud Jul 2012 #20
It was an entirely conservative ruling quaker bill Jul 2012 #17
one of the few times I was more optimistic than general DU opinion yurbud Jul 2012 #21
It was ROBERTS & KENNEDY doing a tandem stranglehold on both decision writing sides UTUSN Jul 2012 #22
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