Surprise, surprise: Roberts votes with Scalia and Thomas

[quaoar]

The Supreme Court today ruled that Oregon's assisted suicide law is constitutional -- a bitch-slap to the Bush Crime Family:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/17/ap/national/mainD8F6JH5OC.shtml

The vote was 6-3, with Kennedy, O'Connor, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer and Stevens voting with the majority.

The three dissenters? Scalia, Thomas and Roberts. Scalia and Thomas wrote separate dissents. Roberts didn't bother. I guess that's what they call leadership.

[Rainscents]

1. Look how Robert voted... This is the reason why we can't have Alito

on SC!

[Nimrod2005]

2. What a bunch of Nazis these mother fuckers are, and get ready

We are adding another named Scalito!!!

[Deep13]

3. States' rights are not for blue states, according to new C.J. nt

[Ron Mexico]

4. I'm stunned at such a vote from the impartial Roberts.

I'm sure the impartial Alito will balance out future votes by the impartial Roberts. :eyes:

[Burning Water]

5. We've got

to win back the Senate, or at least gain a few seats to put the fear of God, or Saatan, or somebody into those evil bastards.

[kaplan3602]

6. We need to do better than that...

... we need to win back Congress and then pass a law outlawing the Repug party.

[Burning Water]

7. Well, I could go along with that,

but I think the Senate is the absolute minimum needed. Of course, if we took the House instead, we could get impeachment, but not conviction. We'll never get to outlaw the Repukes. They tried that once on the Communists and were shot down by the SC. I don't think it's changed that much, and if it has, it's to favor the Republicans.

[n2doc]

8. wouldn't need to outlaw them

If a fair and impartial MSM could be established that would inform the populace of all the pukes crimes. No repuke would ever win again...

[radio4progressives]

9. Interesting that Kennedy voted in Favor ... (whew) go figure..

a catholic that acknowledges the right for assisted end of life.

These other guys are scary... alito makes it scarier.

[aquart]

10. Oh, the shock.

So Roberts gets to be Scalia's buttboy, instead of placing an individual mark on the Court.

You know that people who sell their souls to Satan live to be ancient, right?

[lyonn]

11. From the article:

"The ruling was a reprimand to former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who in 2001 said that doctor-assisted suicide is not a "legitimate medical purpose" and that Oregon physicians would be punished for helping people die under the law.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for himself, Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas, said that federal officials have the power to regulate the doling out of medicine.

"If the term `legitimate medical purpose' has any meaning, it surely excludes the prescription of drugs to produce death," he wrote.

Scalia said the court's ruling "is perhaps driven by a feeling that the subject of assisted suicide is none of the federal government's business. It is easy to sympathize with that position."

Scalia, Thomas and Roberts believe the Federal government has a right to tell doctors how to use prescription medicines. What ever happen to the old repub party where they wanted Less Government?