He is acting out of the one motive even lower than altruism: spite. He's doing this to spite the President. Reason enough to remove him from the bench on impeachment for, and conviction of, injecting a personal bias into his rulings. We all know Judge Narragansett would never approve.

Just a note, but typically unless a judge is present for oral arguments they do not participate in the decision.

Your story does hit upon a major reason why the court needs a solid 5-4 majority: to rule against attempts at voter fraud. Remember that in the case of a 4-4 tie, the lower court ruling is upheld - meaning that all those activist judges Obama installed will continue to put out these unConstitutional rulings.

With all these activist judges, I'd almost like to see something written in to Article III of the Constitution to act as a check on these lower judges. It would be something like: "in the event that a higher court overrules the lower court judge, the higher court may also annotate the case to indicate a potential egregious error in judgment worthy of further review. A judge earning three of these annotations is summarily suspended and must be re-confirmed by Senate vote before being able to return to legal practice. Annotations may also be referred to the Supreme Court for comment, though the Supreme Court does not hold the power to either remove or confirm judges."

Thoughts?

They've certainly go something on him. Who in the hell calls ACA "a tax" in their right mind?

Swear her in and impeach Roberts after Trump's victory?

If she's not confirmed, a lot of mischief could happen between now and January.

As much as I do support confirming ACB there is absolutely nothing saying she would rule in favor of or against this case! Just because she is nominated by a R President has ZERO to do with how she might rule on any case as a Justice. That is made abundantly clear with many of the rulings by Roberts. On another note, this is a clear example of why we need to have the ninth Justice on the bench ASAP. 4-4 rulings are absolutely worthless.

Misses his secret lover, RBG, or DNC has pictures of him servicing a goat.

One of the saddest/most pathetic/yet probably effective arguments the Dems are regurgitating is that putting ACB on SCOTUS would create a 6-3 Conservative majority.

Really? Roberts is a Conservative? Since when?

Looks like the committee vote will be tomorrow, and the final Senate vote somewhere between the 25th and the 30th, depending on whether the Dems throw any obstacles.

So, swearing in at the end of next week, probably.