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💩 SOMEBODY EXPLAIN JOHN ROBERTS TO US. BECAUSE WE CANNOT FIGURE HIM OUT! George W. Bush nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court in 2005. He was confirmed 78 to 22. Republicans were thrilled. Conservatives had high hopes. He was supposed to be one of us. That was twenty one years ago. Let us look at what we got. Roberts was the deciding vote that saved Obamacare. Twice. In 2012 he rewrote the individual mandate as a tax to make it constitutional when it clearly was not. In 2015 he twisted the plain language of the statute to save it again when the text of the law was clearly on our side. The left was as shocked as we were that he saved it. And then he did it again. He sided with the liberals to strike down Louisiana's abortion clinic regulations in 2020, regulations nearly identical to ones he had previously voted to uphold. He joined the liberals to protect DACA, shielding Obama's unconstitutional amnesty program from being unwound by a Republican president. Today he joined Barrett and the three liberal justices to rule that mail in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day. On an election integrity case, with a Republican president in the White House fighting for the outcome, Roberts went the other way. This is not a one time thing. This is not a coincidence. This is a pattern spanning two decades. Roberts has voted with the liberal bloc on healthcare, immigration, abortion, and now election integrity. The cases that matter most to this movement are the cases where Roberts most often finds a reason to walk across the aisle. His defenders say he is protecting the institutional integrity of the Court. That he is playing a long game. That he is keeping the Court from appearing too political. Here is the problem with that argument. The left does not worry about appearing too political. They never have. They fight for every inch and they do not apologize for it. While Roberts is busy protecting the reputation of an institution, the institution keeps handing defeats to the people who believed in it. We are not asking for a rubber stamp. We are asking for a justice who applies the Constitution as written without one eye permanently fixed on what the New York Times editorial board is going to say the next morning. Alito does that. Thomas does that. Gorsuch does that. Roberts has given us twenty one years of carefully crafted, institutionally minded, reputation protecting decisions that keep landing on the wrong side of the most important fights of our time. George W. Bush picked him. Make of that what you will.