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Brent Budowsky: Party Loyalty At The Court

05 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Milton in Uncategorized

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Double Standards, Jurisprudence, Obamacare, Supreme Court

Writing for The Hill Brent Budowsky is “90 percent” confident that John Roberts will “join a majority of justices to uphold the subsidy proviso of the Affordable Care Act.”  If he is wrong “and Roberts and the other Republican justices overturn the subsidies and destroy ObamaCare in a party-line vote, the Supreme Court will become another Washington institution that loses legitimacy with a large number of citizens and falls into widespread public disrepute.”

So, if a party-line vote brings down ObamaCare, it destroys the Supreme Court.  On the other hand, if a party-line vote saves ObamaCare, with all 4 liberal justices holding together and adding one conservative, then the reputation of the Supreme Court remains intact.

This double standard appears time and time again by liberal commentators.  They never question the integrity of liberal justices, who vote as a block to such a degree on controversial matters that it is simply assumed, at the outset, that they will vote in a certain way (and the assumption usually proves correct).  On the flip side, they question the integrity of the conservatives, who do break with the presumed position from time to time for jurisprudential reasons.

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