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Poll: Public Approval of Supreme Court Plummets

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, July 05 2012

One week after the Supreme Court’s perplexing ObamaCare – pardon, ObamaTax – decision, debate continues regarding its most likely long-term legacy. Was Chief Justice John Roberts playing a game of stealth conservative chess, while the rest of us remain only capable of checkers? Or did he instead play the role of Supreme Court popularity curator, instead of neutral umpire as promised during his confirmation? Evidence mounts in support of the latter theory. From references in the dissent to the ramshackle quality of Justice Roberts’s “tax”…

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