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Because now and then we have to tell the majority, the people that they can t do what they want to do. that they want to do is unconstitutional and therefore go away. is not going to make us popular and you can say it is undemocratic. this the small sense it is. but it is the american people who gave us the power and said there are some things we are not going to let future legislatures do even if they want to do it and we are simply applying the judgment of the american people over time. chris: some people say you crossed the line last month in your dissent in the arizona immigration case. you brought up the fact that the president after the case had been argued and had been passed the fact that the president decided not to deport children illegal immigrants. take a look at your dissent. you wrote this. so say 80s court does that arizona contradicts federal law by earn forcing amplycations ....
Because now and then we have to tell the majority, the people that they can t do what they want to do. that they want to do is unconstitutional and therefore go away. is not going to make us popular and you can say it is undemocratic. this the small sense it is. but it is the american people who gave us the power and said there are some things we are not going to let future legislatures do even if they want to do it and we are simply applying the judgment of the american people over time. chris: some people say you crossed the line last month in your dissent in the arizona immigration case. you brought up the fact that the president after the case had been argued and had been passed the fact that the president decided not to deport children illegal immigrants. take a look at your dissent. you wrote this. so say 80s court does that arizona contradicts federal law by earn forcing amplycations ....
Republican talking points about the health care bill. he talked about the broccoli argument. he complained about how long the bill was. he brought up the cornhusker kickback which even isn t actually in the bill. how unprecedented is it to hear those sorts of talking points reiterated from the bench and also, is it fair to say that republicans have really influenced the justices over the past year in this argument? well, for one thing, it was quite surprising unprecedented both at oral argument hearing him talk about the cornhusker kickback, talking about broccoli, making arts that you really only saw on cable news. but i think it s just of a piece with scalia s general bad boy enfante terrible personality. we saw it on monday in the arizona immigration case. he departed from the four corners of the issue before him and went after president obama over the d.r.e.a.m. act. i think it s just the way he is. ....
Poll, i just highlight the washington post /abc news poll because that s who i work for, and you ask the open-ended question, what s the single most important issue to you in this l election. 52%, economy, jobs. less than 1% immigration. i think the romney people take a hit in the near term from the fact that to be frank, he s trying to fudge it a little in terms of his position on the issue but this election, unless something drastic changes, will be not about immigration. it will be about the economy. longer term problems for republicans on immigration, clearly the case. they cannot lose hispanic voters 65/35 in elections and be a majority party going forward. i m not sure that s pertinent to 2012. in fact, the usa today /gallup poll shows the president s decision on friday regarding the immigration of friday a week ago regarding the deportation of young undocumented the children of ....
Reinforce citizens united. they re saving their powder in the hope of one day overruling it. and then of course, looking forward to health care, there s no way i guess to infer from today s breakdown how the court will divide on this very, very important case, but this now you are the expert. i think the only thing you can infer is it s pretty likely that john roberts has principal responsibility, our chief justice, for the opinion. because justice kennedy wrote the immigration opinion? yes, and then john roberts hasn t done anything really in major cases in march and april at the end of the term, which means it s very likely that he assigned that decision to himself. maybe with justice kennedy helping. it was obviously argued in four different parts. but i think we ll see the chief justice taking the lead on the fate of the affordable care act. which may not be good news for the administration. it s really hard to tell. i think we always expected that john roberts would ....