THE DAY AFTER CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS MAJORITY OPINION ON OBAMA CARE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONTEMPT VOTE AGAINST ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER............

Having stunned the nation yesterday by joining with the United States Supreme Court liberal bloc of four Associate Justices for the first time in his seven years as Chief Justice, in upholding the Individual Mandate and all but one provision of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, National Health Care Law, Chief Justice John Roberts is being viewed today by many on the left and the right, very differently than how he was until yesterday morning.  The common thought until now was that he would be a reliable, traditional, strict constructionalist, judge of the law and the Constitution; appointed to the Supreme Court at age 50, by President George W. Bush in 2005. The very conservatives and Republicans who have touted him and his judicial leadership and skills, are now severely disappointed and disparaging of his majority opinion; while the liberals, Democrats, moderates, and independents, who have been skeptical and highly critical of his judgments and constitutional philosophy, are hailing him heroically for upholding the what opponents of the Law call, Obama Care.  A few members of Congress are suggesting his removal from the Court may now be the best course of action against him.  How sad such a narrow point of view is, as decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Constitutionality of the Laws they review, are far more than political agendas to be meted out.  As Chief Justice, John Roberts has a dual responsibility, not only to adjudicate the constitutionality of the rule of law, but also to guide the entire Supreme Court and his eight fellow Associate Justices, in assuring the integrity of the principles of legal interpretation remain intact and not to let politics or non constitutional interests, determine the decision making  rendered by the members of the nation's highest Court, the ultimate source of what is Constitutional or UnConstitutional.  Yesterday was governmentally historic in America for a second reason.  The Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder, was voted in Contempt of Congress by the lower chamber, for failure to cooperate in the House of Representatives investigation of the Fast and Furious Gun Program, which went awry and resulted in the killing of a federal agent in Mexico.  Whether Attorney General Holder truly deserves to be the first ever Presidential Cabinet Member to be voted in Contempt of Congress is questionable, if lack of cooperation is the principal reason for finding him so; as in the past year the Attorney General and the Justice Department have released 2,000 pages of documents and he has testified before the Congress' House Oversight Committee investigating the Fast and Furious problem, eleven times.   Committee Chairman Representative Darrell Issa, Republican from California, and his Party's majority on the Committee want more and despite President Obama's declaration of Executive Privilege of any further release of documents, the first time he has invoked it in his Presidency; the Committee vote was strictly along party lines and the full House vote in favor of finding General Holder in Contempt, had only a small number of Democrats voting yes, primarily because the N.R.A., National Rifle Association threaten to target them for re-election;  and more than a hundred of the Democrats walked out on the votes in protest.  Therefore, is this more principle driven, or politically engineered ?  Even former Florida conservative Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough, now co-host of MSNBC's morning news discussion program, "Morning Joe", said in response to the House Holder Contempt vote it is, "the worse possible time for Republicans to do this", as they come off looking, "partisan" as the General Election approaches.  In an already highly charged and contentious Presidential Campaign and Election Year, the core American Principles of governing fairly, righteously, with civility, and in the best interest, of our Nation between now and November must be maintained.  Chief Justice Roberts is not - as is already being uttered a, "coward", "traitor", or leader of a, "death panel"; any more than Attorney General Holder has been proven liable for criminal or civil acts as greivous as former Attorney John Mitchell was, nearly forty years ago, as a result of Watergate............Fr.Troy