closely watched and viewed through a highly partisan lens. can i just make one quick observation before we have to wrap? sure. the census issue might not be over, right? i mean, it s entirely possible now that they can take the result as crafted by roberts and come back to the court with something that they couldn t deny? quick thought from you. that s exactly right because john roberts said that under, you know, administrator procedures act, under enumeration clause, constitutional grounds, the administration has this authority. it s just that it lie he didn t use the word lie, but he essentially did. it s just that it lied about the sole reason for wanting to do this, and he s giving the administration another chance to justify adding that citizenship question. people should read your book and make sure they get to the acknowledgments and learn about the unique clip files system that allowed you to recall. i m not going to give it all away, but that was my favorite
so he s trying to send out a signal about judging that he wanted i believe he wants to fulfill. and that goes to his role as chief. so, he s a little bit harder to predict in some of these cases. as the man in the middl let s just do a thought experiment to compare the chief to anthony kennedy. anthony kennedy had wanted to keep the door open to partisan gerrymandere gerrymanderers, but john roberts cast the fifth vote this week to just shut the door completely to partisan gerrymanders, so that case might have gone differently if anthony kennedy was still at the middle, and then similarly with the census question and whether citizenship could be asked, i just wonder if anthony kennedy would have come up with the same grounds and acted in the same manner that the chief did in this one that was so
questioning of the professor, but the polling data suggests that biden was then and is now representative of a majority of the country, which you might not know from the media coverage this week. katherine, what do we have? social media reaction? i think harris is the beginning of the end for joe. joe is not made for the soundbite era. you know, john, i said on my radio show those 60 second give and take that aaron sorkin style debate is probably not what comes naturally to him. one more if i ve got time. smerconish, you are annoying, the president disrespects the white house every day and you take an issue with a soccer player. hey, shawn, he may disrespect the white house every day in your view, but it s not a license for the rest of us to do likewise. you can catch up with us anytime at cnn.com and on demand. got a little tongue tied. see you in two weeks.
here. let us check in on your tweets and facebook comments. what do we have, kathryn, from twitter? smerconish we as democrats are not listening to the center of the country. they need to listen, not talk. people want better paying jobs and they don t care about green or not. we as democrats are not listening to the center of the country. john, that is exactly what salena was saying that she heard no reference to unions, with the exception of insley. and then i recommend max s piece in the washington post where he cites all of these examples where democratic candidates are saying things that play well in primary and caucus season but could be a death knell in a general election. i get your point is what i m trying to say. please answer the survey question, does joe biden owe any apology for his past position on busing? i hope you heard my opening
craved. so, joan, is he the new anthony kennedy? no, but he is the new swing vote, michael. ever since justice kennedy retired a year ago this week it put john roberts at the median ideologic ideologically. but he was always going to be the swing vote, the question is what kind of a swing vote would he be? what kind of a middle player would he be. it s so unusual to have a man chief justice of the united states, also have the power of being at the center. so, i ll answer the question that you posed to viewers at the outset, is john roberts the new swing vote? yes, but is he like anthony kennedy? no. what i know from createding and enjoying your book is this tension that he faces. you argue that he s the same guy he s ever been. he s the same in terms of his judicial philosophy, as when he was a young lawyer in the reagan