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. Even more than Scalia, who has embodied judicial conservatism during a generation of service on the Supreme Court, Roberts has served the interests, and reflected the values, of the contemporary Republican Party.

I just heard that The Right Honourable Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour’s appeal has been accepted by the Court, with an eye to defining what “honest service” means. Might be interesting to see if he follows the pattern here: does he rule for the corporation and its shareholders or in favor of a hard-right tool?

Just a thought.

Fuck you, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, et al. We’re going to have to suffer this cold-blooded bastard after you assholes are all dead and buried. Fuck you, you fucking fuckers.

Roberts’s hard-edged performance at oral…

Those other guys look awfully content.