Supreme Court under John Roberts 'Most Conservative' in Recent History

With a little good fortune and some thoughtful appointments to the Court, this Court will have seen its most conservative years as bygone years. Good riddance !

While the label "conservative" may apply, I think Liptak misses the subtleties of Supreme Court opinions. While the results may be "conservative", most of these opinions have been very narrow. PCAOB v. Free Enterprise Fund, for instance, did not invalidate any rulings by the PCAOB. It only said the structure by which boar members are appointed and retain their position on the board must be changed. Further analysis of individual cases relating to this article can be found here: http://bit.ly/cNAj4X

i want to see a change in the SC. More liberals. That way everything will be fairer.

It would be interesting to hear data from the other side of the issue and how they would term it. Let me guess...the activist judges and decisions would be termed "progressive" or simply judges...and the decisions was be termed decisions, not liberal, not left wing, etc. Notice that the "problem" areas of the "conservative" court are all liberal issues that only 20-30% of people agree with. And notice that they term it as being a "problem", and reading btwn the lines, say that they are worried that even more "conservative" ideas will be enabled....horrors!!!!!

Thanks God for Roberts and Alito. Maybe they will help keep this administration in line, or at least in check.

Can anyone explain why a conserative state has not banned abortion? If there was ever a time to overturn Roe vs Wade now is the time. Republicans have been using this platform since Nixon but have done nothing to overturn it. It is not up to the president or congress to take action. A state must ban it and then it goes to the supreme court. WHAT OUR YOU WAITING FOR????

Yep, those right wing activate justice's who forced king george on us are doing their best to bring back the bad old days when slaves were held, women could not vote, and the Kristen right were able to force their beliefs on everyone!

Of course obama dosen't like the constitution or bill of rights because it dosen't tell him what power he has; it tells him what power he dosen't have. The liberals love to cherry pick the constitution and the bill of rights; like the 1st amendment they hide behind that skirt all the time, but don't want corporations to be allowed free speech to campaign for canidates? Better yet the 2nd amendment couldn't be more clear; but they want to try to ban guns time and time again.

if the supreme court were to actually do its job without fear of whitehouse and secret service put over their heads by any president they would actually stand-up for the american people and our constitutinal rights was thats what i said these are rights not privliges its elf explanatory RIGHTS they have become high above the american people and above their own laws none of this is about us the american people its about the nice cushy retirement promised from OUR tax dollar

While it is going to take we Americans quite some time to dig out of the economic, political and, yes, moral hole the conservative policies of the last 30 years has dug us, it is going to be the conservative Supreme Court and all the harm it will do that is going to haunt Americans for generations.