How many divisions does Justice Roberts have?

I'm not sure what the author means by "divisions" in her title. I clicked over for the (at least) ten times Obama exceeded the constitutional bounds of his office and stayed for the history and the analysis and the opinion and the fun. It's a very good article by Clarice Feldman on American Thinker.

These are the Obama excesses mentioned:

* Intervened in Libya without notifying Congress
* Subverted creditors' rights in the Chrysler bailout
* Implemented ObamaCare
* Political profiling by IRS
* Illegally appointed 3 members of NLRB and the head of Consumer Financial Protection Board when Congress was not in recess
* Directed the Department of Homeland Security to issue work and residence permits to so-called Dreamers (Deferred Action to Childhood Arrivals)
* Assaulted free speech and due process on college campuses
* Created and implemented clean power plan
* Overly expansive clean water plan to cover water that is not navigable
* adopted a net neutrality rule
* Implemented a cap-and-trade rule.

I can think of a few more off the top of my head. Obama used Federal resources to assist the Florida D.A. in pursuing Zimmerman in shooting Travon Martin. Targeting of Gibson Guitar who supported Republicans and not Gibson competitor who supported Democrats.  Guns passed to Mexican cartel through Fast and Furious, one of three such programs, aimed at creating disaster to bust a move on the constitution protection of American gun owners. When you look closely nearly every Federal government department was weaponized against political opponents.

While Trump is hampered at every turn by Obama appointed judges Trump still follows the accepted way of appealing the rulings despite the delays that it causes.

While Roberts takes issue with the idea of Obama judges, insisting instead the federal judiciary is politically neutral. Even as he is not politically neutral himself. First by affirming the constitutionality of ObamaCare's mandatory insurance on grounds not argued by the government and now by deciding that the decision for including citizen question on the new census might have been done for an undeclared motive of partisan advantage.

(Here Roberts is admitting there is a partisan advantage in not asking the perfectly reasonable census question.)

Roberts waited until the last day of the term to announce his decision effectively giving himself a pocket veto.

The time for printing the forms was so close and the census due to begin in October, shortly after the court returns for a new term.

Although remanded to take evidence about the purpose of the citizenship question there wouldn't be enough time to return a conclusion to be resolved by the Robert's court.

The article describes how distinguished lawyers offered a solution to the president.

The 14th Amendment says if a state denies anyone eligible to vote then its allotment of House seats will be reduced in the proportion which the number of such citizens bear to the whole number of citizens in the state. The language is absolute and mandatory. Compliance is impossible without counting how many citizens live in each state.

The president should issue an executive order stating that to comply with the requirement of the 14th Amendment.

Opponents will litigate. They will choose a federal district likely to block it again and the Justice Department will need to seek the Supreme Court's intervention during its summer recess. Rare, such emergency reviews happened before. With the justification for citizenship question being clear and compelling the administration will most likely prevail.

The article describes how the citizenship question appeared on the long form census. Then the long form was eliminated and that function picked up by other means. How the census was not trusted to be handled by Commerce and passed to the White House. How so much money is involved that the states that support illegal immigration need the money to operate.

The article draws a picture of how states pay taxes to the federal government but operate against the interests of federal government and in the interests of party instead but need that money redistributed back to themselves because of the situation they worked so hard to create. They're blurring the line between citizen and non-citizen. They are disenfranchising the value of citizenship.

A significant majority of Americans agree the citizenship question should be included. They want to protect their franchise. While Democrats work to dilute it in favor of Party.

There is a long discussion about the question being on the ballot affecting the willingness of non-citizens to complete it.

Then, a surprising turn. The article drops the discussion about Trump putting the citizenship question back into the census where it belongs and turns to the writing of Oleg Atbashian but without mentioning that's the satire site The People's Cube. None of the commenters notice this. Apparently none of them clicked over. Atbashian writes a very lengthy diatribe part satire and mostly serious. This long portion lifted is just part of it. He has a lot to say about this. And it's all very good.

Equating our two cultures [The West’s and the Islamic nations] is not just unnatural -- it's suicidal. We should consider ourselves lucky that a few generations ago Western nations managed to lift themselves out of the sewer in which humanity lived for thousands of years. These nations have mastered science, arts, medicine, increased life expectancy, and developed a legal system that grants more rights and freedoms to individual citizens than any other culture in history. The advancement is reciprocal: the more freedoms the individuals have, the better off the nation is economically. At the head of this upward movement is the United States, the first nation to put individual freedoms above the government's interests. Placing the government in the service of the people at an age when the rest of the world viewed the people as mere servants to their governments.

The vertical map of the world's cultures is never a still picture; they are moving along the entire visible length of the stairwell of progress. The invisible flights of stairs are still ahead of us -- a terra incognita. How far up does the stairwell go? Is there an end to it? How soon will humanity get there, and how much has already been covered? If we want answers we shouldn't be stopping the pioneers. We must celebrate them.

As for the poor bastards still down at the bottom, you may empathize with them all you want. But you may also feel a relief that at least some part of the human race has found the ability to clean up their act and show the way to other nations -- and a hope that one day, with the right attitude, the others may also climb out of the sewer.

And that is what the Fourth of July means to this author. Fireworks, barbecues, and department store sales are optional.