The Supreme Court decision on the national insurance bill will remain a source of papers and
discussion for years but one of the undercurrents seems to be that
Roberts wants to decrease the influence of the Court, feeling it is an
entity further away from the will of the people than the elected
representatives.
If true, he personifies that distance. The ebb and flow of governmental
power in this nation is constant but actually occurs among a minority in
the population. Most people are not hard constitutionalists or hard
progressive governmental activists. Most people are more passive in
their politics and more victims of the debate than participants. They
need protected; they need a referee. That's what the Court is supposed
to be.
A referee can not be above it all. Nor, if the inkling some are getting
over the historical "Commerce Clause" discussion, can he be afraid.
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