Kathleen Parker: Obnoxious attempt to intimidate Supreme Court

Published: Friday, May 25 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

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U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts faces an intimidating situation: support Obamacare and cheered for it, or reject it and be seen as a partisan who has delegitimized the court.

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Roland Kayser

Cottonwood Heights, UT

Conservatives have been railing against the court ever since Brown v Board of Education (1954). That's okay, but it's not okay for the other side to do it too?

1:56 a.m. May 25, 2012
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Esquire

Springville, UT

Roland Kayser is right on this. I might tend to agree with Kathleen Parker on this except that this is the most blatantly political court in the last 160 years, maybe even more so than the era of the Dred Scott decision. Conservatives hate activist More..

7:14 a.m. May 25, 2012
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Twin Lights

Louisville, KY

Irrespective of how we may want the Chief Justice (or any Justice) to vote on an issue, I do not think that what Ms. Parker describes here is intimidation. It is the normal course of politics on a hot button issue.

I think all of our More..

5:27 a.m. May 25, 2012
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