[TheRealVille]

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2012 — Chief Justice John Roberts’s decision on behalf of the Supreme Court was gutsy. No doubt about it. He literally saved the august body from careening forever more into Right Wing Land. It was hell-bent on a self-destructive course that was already shattering its reputation.

Conservatives have been gloating that they have a lock on the Supreme Court with Justice Kennedy sometimes going stray, but for the most part doing what they considered the Right Thing. In fact, this court was not the Roberts Court, but the Antonin Scalia Court. The scowling, vituperative justice loved showering hot embers of sarcasm on the lawyers who appeared before the Court. Justice Scalia relished being the wrath of the Right. He and colleagues Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito had basically hijacked the Court.

That is until the fateful Thursday in late June when Roberts boldly reclaimed the Court as his and began the job of securing his legacy.

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