re: #166 Political Atheist

I find that possible if bit doubtful, as the administration was so strongly supporting this.

And yet, the 5-4 vote was clearly on the usual partisan lines.

That is the responsible person(s) in the most direct sense.

The president is now responsible for supreme court decisions? Ones his own appointees oppose? Who knew?

What might be we can not really know, but what is shows an administration making a long term mistake that goes far beyond his terms. Pending some momentous change, this is permanent.

Sure. But if you think that this hasn’t come about in large part because of Republican judicial appointments in the past decade, you’re not thinking about it very carefully.