Chief Justice Roberts Tells Oregon Voters To Go To Hell!

We told you so!

We told you John Roberts was THAT conservative. We told he was no O'Connor. We told you he was a conservative, result-oriented judicial activist.

So Arlen Specter should just shut the fuck up!

Today's Supreme Court decision in Gonzales v. Oregon reveals how far Roberts is willing to go in pursuit of his desired results. Results driven undoubtedly by his religious beliefs and his rightwing fervor.

The State of Oregon voted twice by explicit referendum - the second vote by a wide majority - to allow physician-assisted suicide or "death with dignity" under specific and narrow guidelines. Former AG and religious zealot John Ashcroft sought to impose his (and presumably President Bush's) religious views on the People of Oregon by finding authority in an act of Congress to criminally punish Doctors who assisted compassionate deaths under the Oregon statute. Was this grant of authority explicit? No. Was there any evidence that Congress inytended to grant this authority? No. It was just a pure power grab by the executive branch to impose its will by misinterpreting statutory authority in some out-of-whack fashion (Hmm ... sounds much like using the Afghanistan authorization of force statute as a basis of conducting warrantless wiretaps).

Indeed, after Oregon's Death With Dignity Act passed, Congress has had ample opportunity to specifically address the issue and those who have tried have failed. But then, guys like Roberts, Scalia and Thomas really don't care that much about allowing this issues to be addressed in an explicit, democratic fashion. One a result is against their moral beliefs, they like Tyrants of the past, say "Screw Democracy!"

Once confronted with this gross power grab, Roberts sides with the imperial presidency over the democratic rights of the People of Oregon and over the individual liberty of the people who are suffering slow and painful deaths.

But I'll guarantee you another thing. Roberts would not reach this result if it were a Democratic President who engaged in such obvious statutory misinterpretation. His philosophy - as that of Scalia, Thomas and Scalito - is and will be one based on the result. If its a conservative result, he will claim there was no misinterpretation by the President. If its not a conservative result, he'll find an abuse of power.

Roberts, through his conservative activism, places himself above democracy and individual liberty. The People of Oregon can go to Hell if they don't agree with him. He is exactly what the Left feared.