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377. Otherworld pt. 2

By Joel Jacobsen

Jeffrey Toobin has a profile of Chief Justice John Roberts in this week's New Yorker, revealing that George Bush's judge-pickers knew what they were doing when they named Roberts to the court. In the course of pulling back the curtain to reveal that an upper-crust man who devoted his adult life to Republican causes before receiving the best patronage job in America from a Republican president is, in fact, a Republican, Toobin writes: After four years on the Court, however, Roberts's record is not that of a humble moderate but, rather, that of a doctrinaire conservative. The kind of humility that Roberts favors reflects a view that the Court should almost always defer to the existing power relationships in society. In every major case since he became the nation's seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on May 23, 2009 (boomark / email).