Shagga said:
Roberts is the kind of man who who would have voted to allow American citizens of Japanese ancestry to be sent to concentration camps. He will always defer to the autocrats as long as there is ANY plausible excuse, like the amorphous "public safety". He's an evil globalist.
I don't know about him being an evil globalist, but if you read a lot of his writings, even writings outside of his court opinions, he seems concerned with the politicization of the court. He's written about it a lot in the end of year federal court reviews. He defers to elected officials almost as a default.
Reading his opinion in this case, had Cuomo kept the regulations in place instead of adjusting them I think he would've gone with the majority. But since the regulations were adjusted, he chose to call the issue moot instead of making a strong statement.
And thank God for Gorsuch. He may be the best justice on the court. Writes very easy to understand opinions and uses a lot of common sense. Disagreed with his logic on the discrimination case, but otherwise he's been fantastic.