How will John Roberts feel about presiding over the most liberal SCOTUS in history?

[MohRokTah]

I think this is a good question because if the Republicans block Sri Srinivasan, the most likely outcome of the election is a Democratic president and a flipped Senate where the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees at the very least will be thrown out, making the nomination of an extremely liberal Associate Justice incredibly likely.

This would swing the balance from a radically conservative court to probably the most liberal court in history.

So tell me, how is John Roberts going to feel being the CJ of such a court?

I think he resigns after the 2020 election, regardless of the outcome.

[underpants]

1. #JudgeReinholdforSCOTUS

[saltpoint]

2. Good question. I like the notion

that he would resign from the High court.

Do it, John. As for a timetable, how about Monday before noon Eastern? Great -- it's settled then.

Seriously -- he won't like it when it doesn't feel as if it's tailor-made to his limitations and prejudices. But Scalia died in Texas -- DEATH IN MARFA! -- and Roberts will have to adjust the same as everybody else when Fate sits down besides Little Miss Muffet.

[Orrex]

3. He won't be permitted to resign

President Clinton or Sanders will likely have the opportunity for two appointments already, so if Roberts quits it would give us another left-leaning Justice. It would go from 5-4 Conservative to 6-3 Liberal, and the Kochs certainly won't allow that.

[DFW]

4. Roberts is the Kochs' (well, OK, Rosemary's) baby

The whole Citizens United thing was cooked up probably five years before it came before the Supreme Court.

After Iraq became the fiasco it did, and Cheney probably knew years before the economy's collapse that it was coming, and therefore that there was no way a Republican would be elected President in 2008. The question that arose when openings appeared on the Supreme Court under Cheney was: how can we prevent Democrats from holding congressional majorities? Citizens United became viable when the Kochs offered their financial clout, and I'm sure they warned they would only do so if their legal status was forged in legal steel. You can bet that in the preliminary interviews held in the White House under Cheney (Bush was probably allowed to sit in, but surely had no clue as to the subject under discussion), the question that determined whether or not a potential nominee was kept or stricken from the short list was: if we were to put this into law, would you uphold it or strike it down? Roberts and Alito passed the test with flying colors.