NSA data used for blackmail?
If this is to be believed, it might explain the Obamacare decision.
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June 24th, 2013 at 9:31 am
I have to believe that if they had enough dirt on Chief Justice Roberts to get him to change his verdict on Obamacare, they would have just had him retire allowing them to replace him with someone they would not have to blackmail.
Yes he is rather you to retire, but he could just claim some unspecified health reasons and the media would have done what they do best and moved onto the next story.
June 24th, 2013 at 3:17 pm
@ JTwig: Why replace him? If that story is to be believed*, they have enough influence that he never would have gotten onto the court if they didn’t already own him. Plus:
A) If you control someone through blackmail, it doesn’t matter if they agree with you on every case or not – if they don’t do what you want, you’ll destroy them, and they know it. If you put someone in power because they agree with you, there’s a good chance that when you find something you disagree on, you won’t be able to control them.
2) If he’s blackmailable to that extent, and already on the court, why waste the effort? Getting a new SCOTUS justice would mean influencing the President (if he’s not already involved) to get the right person nominated, and then influencing enough senators to get the nomination approved. You already control his vote, so what’s the point?
iii) He’s the “swing” vote that gives the court the appearance of being “balanced”. That appearance of balance is a useful illusion for “them”. Someone they don’t have to blackmail to get the results they want would most likely vote with one side of the Court or the other pretty consistently, and break that apparent balance. It’s beneficial to let Roberts vote the way he wants on anything they don’t find too important. It also lets them hide their influence by not having to turn a reliably conservative or liberal justice to get a desired ruling.
June 24th, 2013 at 3:21 pm
And I forgot my asterisk:
* The fact that this story cannot be immediately dismissed out of hand as a crackpot conspiracy theory is the real tragedy here.