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and defending our nation while assist ing others with obtaining regard less of the myopic and cognitively challenged who attack him at every opportune our leaders and our soldiers Are the he and they Are to be not the silly those who simply offer entertainment should be not Wor shipped they must prostitute themselves in their efforts to entertain lets get it straight Public service members and elected leaders Are the not those who simply entertain William Moore Camp Iraq Roberts rules within the courts rules by Paul Campos every in the peanuts cartoon Charlie Brown would race up to kick the foot Ball Lucy was Only to have her pull it away at the last which would cause him to crash land on his As the years went Lucas explanations As to Why she want going to pull the Ball away became More Delabo and Charlie Browns fatalistic suspicion that she would became More but he kept trying to kick the Ball any such was the reaction of Liberal supreme court watchers to the 200607 As Emily Bazelon outlines in a mor Dantly amusing slate the expectations of various Liberal Legal scholars that the Roberts court would feature a mod Erate Brand of conservative Deci Sion making  have been More mis More than a third of the courts cases this term were decided by a 54 vote and in every one of those decisions chief Justice John Roberts voted to uphold the View that a political conservative would in other someone who knew nothing about the Content of the but who was aware of Roberts Politi Cal could have predicted with 100 percent accuracy How Roberts would vote in All the cases in which his vote by assuming Roberts vote would reflect his political this shocking revelation has caused much Cass a prominent Liberal Law professor who two years ago wrote an oped in the Wall Street journal supporting the Roberts seems especially when Bazelon asked him if he was now having second Sunstein replied in surprised that Roberts has shown no unpredictability at All in the big Hes been so consistent in his conserva i thought that he was too careful a lawyer to be so predictable speaking of Charlie Reading that quote gave me the distinct feeling that people such As i have spent our entire professional lives banging our Heads against a particularly thick and impenetrable for More than a Legal schol political historians and sociologists have pointed certain things Over and Over they have said these things in various while writing from Points All across the political but the Basic claims of these critics Are All very any Case that reaches the supreme court has at least and usually perfectly plausible in the sense that the relevant Legal materials allow for a variety of this is the doonesbury same thing As saying that supreme court decisions Arent dictated by what the Law because these cases invariably Deal with matters where the Legal Materi als Are consistent with different out because the Law never requires justices to reach a particular result in any Case that generates a supreme court Opin the justices must decide what to do on other to the extent they de cide cases rationally As opposed for randomly or they must choose certain outcomes because they prefer those outcomes for various because supreme court Opin ions always Deal with politically controversial the reasons the justices give for choosing a particular outcome will themselves necessarily be politically this obviously applies to substantive political issues such As whether affirmative action ought to be but it applies just As much to such Legal questions As when a judge ought to follow prior Case Law when it appears to conflict with the meaning of a the Law Doest answer the latter question any More than it answers the god Only knows when the people who keep asking supreme court justices to follow the Law will figure this Scripps Howard news service columnist Paul Campos is a Law professor at the University of by Garry Trudeau my shirt site my b5 As chief i to 1 Xor of wet