The Supreme Court is not the branch of our government that actually governs; governing is the function of the executive and legislative branches. It's true that the Court rules on many important matters, but, hearing less than 100 cases a year,it does not rule on all important matters. Yet, with all the brouhaha on both sides you'd think that the selection of the next Supreme Court judge is the most important thing to be done in our lifetime.
Rather than spend tens of millions of dollars on ads supporting or denouncing Roberts, these groups should spend the money on soldiers' families or food for the hungry. Spend it on trying to help solve some real problems, not on spreading some unimportant bull shit.
Sure, Roberts is conservative, but many conservatives, such as Black and O'Connor and Souter, have voted on the liberal side in many of their decisions. Some people do change. Some judges have changed. It's possible that Roberts might.
The Harvard Law Review recently published a summary of Supreme Court decisions over the past 10 years. 36% of these decisions were unanimous, 21% were 5 - 4. What makes us think that Roberts will really change these results?
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