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highplainsdem

(49,138 posts)
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 12:39 PM Jun 2012

In Pa., Roberts dodges query on health care ruling, jokes about trip to ‘impregnable fortress’

Source: AP via Washington Post

FARMINGTON, Pa. — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is joking that he’ll be spending some time in “an impregnable fortress” now that the Supreme Court has ended a session that featured him casting the decisive vote upholding President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Responding to a question about his summer plans, Roberts quipped that he thought his planned trip to Malta to teach a class was a “good idea.”

He delivered the joke Friday at a federal court conference at a posh Pennsylvania resort.

Roberts declined to answer a question about the landmark opinion issued Thursday. But he says he hopes the court will be remembered for “protecting equal justice under the law.”

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-pa-roberts-dodges-query-on-health-care-ruling-jokes-about-trip-to-impregnable-fortress/2012/06/29/gJQAhPTdBW_story.html

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In Pa., Roberts dodges query on health care ruling, jokes about trip to ‘impregnable fortress’ (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2012 OP
There are too many conservative nutcases out there. randome Jun 2012 #1
I'm sure he is getting death threats. louis-t Jun 2012 #2
I don't think he was joking Iliyah Jun 2012 #3
I hope he is seeing the truth now about the "republics" - good one :-) wordpix Jun 2012 #4
No doubt about it. Doc Holliday Jun 2012 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author bupkus Jun 2012 #6
Wow! I'd forgotten about this show. It was a favorite...until FailureToCommunicate Jun 2012 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author bupkus Jun 2012 #9
"He delivered the joke Friday...at a posh Pennsylvania resort" BumRushDaShow Jun 2012 #7
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randome

(34,845 posts)
1. There are too many conservative nutcases out there.
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 12:50 PM
Jun 2012

I hope Supreme Court justices have good security because even though Roberts has made what I think are bad decisions in the past, he does not deserve to be a target for violence.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. I don't think he was joking
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 01:07 PM
Jun 2012

He will probably need extra security because of GOP Christian brothers and sisters want to make an example of him.

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
5. No doubt about it.
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 01:12 PM
Jun 2012

The Norquist/teabagger types will be spitting on his shadow forever, I'm sure.

I wonder if the GOP will revoke his membership or something...maybe give him one of those ceremonies like at the beginning of Branded where they tear his judge robe from him a little at a time....break his gavel in half....

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FailureToCommunicate

(14,034 posts)
8. Wow! I'd forgotten about this show. It was a favorite...until
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 08:15 PM
Jun 2012

September 1966. (Star Trek premiered)

Thanks for the memory!

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BumRushDaShow

(130,132 posts)
7. "He delivered the joke Friday...at a posh Pennsylvania resort"
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 06:02 PM
Jun 2012

Is it one of the gambling dens here? Is he paying his own way or is the government picking up the tab?

Response to BumRushDaShow (Reply #7)

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