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By George Spelvin, staff writer

President Barack Obama signed his executive order stopping deportation of some young illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children a scant 13 days before Justice John Roberts flipped his no to a yes allowing the President’s premier legislation to become the law of the land just as Obama’s reelection campaign ramps up. Now some observers are wondering if questions asked about the Roberts’ private adoptions in 2005 during his confirmation hearings might have had a “lingering” effect.

Don’t Blame Roberts, Blame Obama

Feeling misled? You certainly should. Congress created a law so complex that it occupies between 2,400 and 2,800 pages depending on who says what, almost all of them unread by the people who voted for it. President Obama and his Democratic colleagues told you many things about the law – most of which were either mischaracterizations or outright lies. What Chief Justice John Roberts did was tell the truth, and now we can move forward.

John Roberts – Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)

***Think Roberts was wrong? Just Listen To Mark Levin***

If you have any doubts that Justice Roberts was wrong just listen to Mark Levin….He’s ready to fight the Revolution again……

Official 2005 photo of Chief Justice John G. Roberts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now Mark isn’t what you’d called subtle….when he gets upset he let’s it all hang out, and that is why I love him……that’s how I get….I scream and yell and vent against the enemy bambi and his criminal accomplices in the Senate……

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A Vast New Federal Power by Andrew P. Napolitano

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street,

Official 2005 photo of Chief Justice John G. Roberts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.

If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat,

If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

~ The Beatles in “The Taxman”

Of the 17 lawyers who have served as chief justice of the United States, John Marshall – the fourth chief justice – has come to be known as the “Great Chief Justice.”

English: Judge recording an episode of at CPAC in . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The folks who have given him that title are the progressives who have largely written the history we are taught in government schools. They revere him because he is the intellectual progenitor of federal power.

Marshall’s opinions over a 34-year period during the nation’s infancy – expanding federal power at the expense of personal freedom and the sovereignty of the states – set a pattern for federal control of our lives and actually invited Congress to regulate areas of human behavior nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. He was Thomas Jefferson’s cousin, but they rarely spoke. No chief justice in history has so pronouncedly and creatively offered the feds power on a platter as he.

Now he has a rival.

No one can know the true motivations for the idiosyncratic rationale in the health care decision written by Marshall’s current successor, John Roberts. Often five member majorities on the court are fragile, and bizarre compromises are necessary in order to keep a five-member majority from becoming a four-member minority.

George Will: The consolation prize (The commerce clause was rejected.)

Conservatives won a substantial victory on Thursday. The physics of American politics — actions provoking reactions — continues to move the crucial debate, about the nature of the American regime, toward conservatism. Chief Justice John Roberts has served this cause.

John Roberts – Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)