Though someone with the hyper-arrogant mentality of the Manchurian Candidate doesn’t really need a reason to direct this sort of psycho-babble at a presumptive enemy,Obama was probably responding to information provided by far left Justice Elena Kagan that the Court’s closed-door,preliminary vote on ObamaCare had not gone very well. Each Friday,the 9 justices gather for an initial vote on the cases heard during the week. And although these weekly conferences are to be strictly confidential,it’s a safe bet that Obama’s Court stoolie was on the phone with the White House minutes after its conclusion.
However,as this preemptive strike on the court was met with a nationwide flurry of criticism even from a number of his media supporters,Obama made no further reference to the prospective ruling.
But on Monday,a new county was heard from. Dedicated leftist Senator Patrick Leahy directed a 2000 word dissertation at the Court from the Senate floor,selecting as his principle target Chief Justice John Roberts. “The constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act is the current instance in which narrow ideology and partisanship are pressuring the Supreme Court to intervene where it should not,” claimed Leahy,making clear his view that the Court has no business interfering with a Congressional assault on the Constitution. The senator advanced the 2000 Bush/Gore decision as an example of the sort of “judicial activism” that “shook the confidence of the American people in the Supreme Court.” He ridiculed conservative justices for their tough questioning of principle ObamaCare advocate Solicitor General Donald Verilli during oral arguments,stating “their action will not help restore American’s confidence in the Court to fairly apply the law.”
And he alternately praised and threatened the Chief Justice,literally claiming that if Roberts joined other conservatives in a 5-4 decision against ObamaCare it would “…undoubtedly further erode the reputation and legitimacy of the Supreme Court.”
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