Do you think John Roberts is looking out at this country from his

[Gaugamela]

perch on the Supreme Court and feeling a deep glow of satisfaction and thinking to himself, “Yes, this is exactly as I expected it to be. I served my country well. My name will be a shining light in the many history books yet to be written”?

Do you think he gets together with his fellow conservatives on the court after work and they toast each other with high priced whiskey and liqueurs and congratulate each other on a job damn well done and chuckle a little self-consciously because it comes a little too close to self-praise to feel so exceptionally right?

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. He was a weak SCJ....why? Check his closets. That;s how he got promoted.

IMHO. of course.

[surfered]

2. He promised to just calls balls and strikes, but when Trump's at bat it's all balls. With Dems, it's all strikes

[Volaris]

9. I think a better analogy is that hes trying to umpire a game but one team is trying to set the field on fire.

[intheflow]

30. The post you're replying to references what Roberts said

at his confirmation hearing, he said he’d be fair, like an umpire calling balls and strikes. But his record, even before Trump, was all about throwing the games to conservatives. He’s delighting in the field being on fire. He gave Trump the matches.

[FadedMullet]

3. Absolutely. Smug self-satisfaction is derigueur among that level of the conservative elite. We can only hope......

........that he occasionally puts a pubic hair on Clarence's coke can to keep that boy in his place.

[Gaugamela]

4. LOL

[Cosmocat]

24. Correct

These people are 100% delusional and think they know something no one else does, and live in an alternative reality were the omnipotent evil liberal boogyman MUST be defeated at all costs.

[DURHAM D]

5. Is he Opus Dei? nt

[Gaugamela]

6. Probably.

[DURHAM D]

7. sick

[Volaris]

10. Yes. Him, Alito, Kavs?, and maybe Sotomayor?

It's like, half the damn court for sure...

[rpannier]

16. Gorsuch, Kagan, Sotomayor and Brown-Jackson no

Everyone else is

[BlueKentuckyGirl]

21. Not Sotomayor

But how come you left out Thomas?

[rubbersole]

23. Nobody wants Thomas.

Even his mamma. Even after that nice man, Mr Harlan, paid off her house.

[BlueKentuckyGirl]

22. Not Gorsuch

Gorsuch is as bad as Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh. Oh and I forgot Roberts, of course.

[The Bopper]

8. I think

His family has a cash cow by the horns and he's not going to mess that up..

[creon]

11. My best guess

He does not care.

He simply does not care.
He, simply, gives it no thought.

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

29. Agreed

From his standpoint, what incentive does he have to care?

Guaranteed good paycheck for the rest of his life, staff does all the actual work, my guess is he’s spent more emotional toil on vacations and other niceties than Chief Justicing.

Same echelon as a fortune 100 exec, completely different parallel plane of existence as the rest of us.

IMO it’s naïve to think he actually gives a shit or second thought about ICE in Minneapolis or anything really.

“How does he sleep at night?” Probably pretty well, on a mattress that costs more than your car.

[creon]

31. He does not

He does not give a thought to the consequences his decisions

[DET]

12. I'm Torn

He has to know that he and ‘his’ court will leave a disgraceful legacy, and he can’t feel good about that. But - like a lot of conservatives - he’s so self righteous that he has probably convinced himself that ‘it’s for the greater good’. Plus he likes the bribes. I still think he has more of a conscience than Thomas or Alito, but that’s not saying much.

[vapor2]

13. History will not be kind to Roberts and rightly so

[NotHardly]

14. Robert is a Nazi, period.

[BurnDoubt]

15. He's a tool.

[Joinfortmill]

17. Ha! Not! Supposedly, he's concerned about his legacy.

What legacy? He's headed for the trash bin of history.

[milestogo]

18. And he's probably thinking how great it is to be someone so powerful

that his name is automatically scrubbed from the Epstein documents.

[Kablooie]

19. Absolutely.

Th country is falling into a deep conservative, authoritarian hole and may never get out.
That’s exactly the dream they’ve had their whole life.
The only big missing piece is that the country still tolerates religions other than Christian extremism.
That will be remedied in the coming years.

[ForeGoneLegsBirne]

20. Judge Robertski

Probably studying his Russian language & legal books!

[KS Toronado]

32. Welcome to DU !

[summer_in_TX]

25. A fabulous band I listened to last night had the perfect lyrics.

"It feels good to do good.
It feels wrong to do wrong.
That’s how we know what to do."

~Warren Hood band

Fabulous concert. Fiddle, violin (yes, same instrument played differently), mandolin and two guitars. But I could have sworn I heard Ravi Shankar and George Harrison off and on throughout that song.

It's true for most of us. Not the sociopaths, I guess.

[Blues Heron]

26. More like looking at his bank accounts and chuckling to himself how easy it all is

[agingdem]

27. John Roberts cared about his legacy before Trump...

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Alito and Thomas were in the process of capturing the court when Gorsuch was appointed to the bench...but once Mitch McConnell shoved Federalist Society approved Kavanaugh and Barrett's nominations through the Senate, Roberts ceded control of the court and his legacy to the majority..

[Tribetime]

28. I think the only thing he's been worried about is that not losing his power

If the democrats control everything in twenty twenty eight that they will expand the court.