Roberts was a party to the Bush administration's suspension of habeas corpus & has repeatedly demonstrated his hostility to the civil liberties of Americans & anyone else who gets in his way. Roberts appears to have no noticeable problem with unwarranted wiretaps & the full range of domestic surveillance so treasured by Dick Cheney, David Addington, John Yoo & the despicable gaggle of legal hacks in the Bush Department of "Justice." Roberts appears to be very comfortable with the conservative wet dream of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, one of if not the most offensive legislative aberrations the U.S. Congress has ever excreted.
So, what we know is that Roberts has minimal concern for truthfulness or fairness in the democratic process that defines our legal system.
We know that he & his conservative cohorts are doing everything they can do to reverse settled law protecting an unaware public from the devastation of removing yet another legal constraint to further corporate control of our government.
An important recent decision:
The much Supreme Court reversed 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an enduringly painful thorn in the side of all conservative bureaucrats, has just ruled that one of Roberts' cronies, former Attorney General John Let-the-Eagle-Soar Ashcroft, can be sued in a civil court for decisions leading to crimes committed against an American citizen by U.S. Government agencies.
Another important international event:
If Chief Justice Roberts & his conservative court had even a shred of moral credibility, it wouldn't be a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzón (translation here) pressing charges against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; John Yoo, author of the "torture memos"; Douglas Feith, then a deputy defense secretary; Pentagon lawyer William Haynes II; former assistant attorney general Jay Bybee; and David Addington, a former chief of staff to then-Vice President Dick Cheney & less directly Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Garzón is charging that the above conservative, unelected American government officials are all implicated in deciding to imprison & torture Spanish citizens. Spanish courts have "universal jurisdiction" so they are in a valid position to try the above.
In addition, we know, & the Roberts Supreme Court justices know that Garzón is doing what they should be doing & that Garzón is focused on the tip of a nightmarish iceberg of criminality.
All of this, by our government in our name. So it should come as no surprise to anyone when Roberts deepens & strengthens corporate control of every aspect of life in America by successfully placing a legal patina over the likes of Citizens United & David Bossie & their perverse manipulations. Let's hope Breyer, Ginsburg, & Sotomayor find a way to stop them.
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