Chief Justice Roberts Accidentally Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Citizens United...

[McCamy Taylor]

24. He's just afraid the SCOTUS will be flooded by stupid rulings from judges who were "bought"

and the court will spend all its time trying to cover for these bought and paid for judges and their very wealthy clients. Obviously, it would better for him if only legislators are bought, then the laws they pass will only end up in the SCOTUS if they violate the Constitution.

For example, imagine that one of the Koch Brothers roasts and BBQs a baby on his front lawn--then pays off the judge in the civil case (the local prosecutor refuses to press charges on the grounds that the Koch Brothers own him) so that the family of the baby ends up having to pay the Kochs because their baby gave the Koch Brother indigestion thanks to the zany rulings of the judge over the civil case who is also owned by the Kochs. Since this is a civil case, there would be appeals and more appeals until finally the SCOTUS would be forced to choose between upholding the initial judgment which they will really want to do because the Kochs own them, too. But, on the other hand, who wants to be on record as saying that you can counter sue the parents of the baby you killed and ate because they did not raise a tasty baby?

Roberts is 100% about self interest. That is the only thing that separates him from Scalia and the others.