If the term "the State" can be interpreted to mean "the Federal government," the 10th Amendment now reserves all powers to the Federal Government

Here is how Chief Justice John Roberts and five other SCOTUS Judges have rewritten the 10th Amendment to our Constitution.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States Federal Government respectively,  period or to the people.

RINO Alert: Sen. Orrin Hatch praises Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as a “remarkable” and “tremendous” jurist

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has politicized the Supreme Court in a failed effort to avoid politicizing the court. That will be his historical legacy.

Via The Hill:

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Thursday praised Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as a “remarkable” and “tremendous” jurist who wrote a “clever” opinion upholding a key provision of ObamaCare.
“All I can say is that the chief justice is a remarkable judge. He’s a tremendous human being. I have a tremendous confidence in him and I believe in him. I differ with him on this opinion,” Hatch said from the Senate floor. “On the other hand, it is a very clever opinion, and I have to say only a clever judge could have written it as well.”
Roberts authored the 6-3 decision handed down earlier Thursday that upheld federal healthcare insurance subsides under the Affordable Care Act. The ruling is a major victory for the Obama administration

Unlikely: SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts says law, not politics, drives Supreme Court's rulings

If anyone thinks Robert's Obamacare vote was based on law, not politics, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.  John Roberts can't be this stupid. I must surmise he is being disingenuous.

LINCOLN — While political partisanship flourishes in the halls of Congress, it has no place in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, the chief justice said Friday in remarks to Nebraska law students.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said he worries that the partisan rancor of the age has skewed the public understanding of the court’s role in government. During a 55-­minute talk at the University of Nebraska College of Law, he stressed that the rule of law, rather than politics, drives the court’s decisions.

“We are not Democrats and Republicans in how we go about it,” he told an audience of 500, as estimated by university officials. “In nine years, I’ve never seen any sort of political issue like that arise between us.”

Chief Justice John Roberts on Obama: “I don’t see why he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions,”

Chief Justice John Roberts is just trying to make up for bowing down on Obamacare...


Via The Hill:

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Wednesday were sharply critical of President Obama’s approach to a federal law on same-sex marriage.

Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder decided in 2011 that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. They quit defending it in the courts, but directed federal agencies to continue to comply with the law.

Conservatives on the Supreme Court criticized that approach Wednesday during oral arguments over whether DOMA is constitutional.

“I don’t see why he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions,” Chief Justice John Roberts said of Obama’s decision to continue following the law, even though he believes it is unconstitutional.

Justice Antonin Scalia said the legal system appears to be “living in this brave new world” in which the Justice Department can simply opt out of its traditional responsibility to defend federal laws in the courts.

He questioned who has the power to decide the government will not defend a particular law.

“It’s only when the president thinks its unconstitutional?” Scalia asked. “Or could the attorney general, or the solicitor general, impose the same determination?”

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Humorous Image of the Day: Chief Justice John Roberts Arrives at Impregnable Island Fortress of Malta

Let's hope Chief Justice John Roberts stays in Malta and never returns to the U.S.A.

Via Free Republic: