The Rapid City Journal has a brief piece by Celeste Calvitto on Johnson's decision to support John Roberts.
"The individual he (Roberts) is going to replace was a very conservative member of the court, so his confirmation does not change the overall look of the Supreme Court in terms of its ideology," Johnson said in a conference call with reporters. "It seems to me that Judge Roberts is a skilled lawyer who is within the mainstream of conservative legal thinking, and for that reason he deserves to be confirmed."
That's two arguments: one, that the Court should remain "balanced," which probably means, for Johnson, that it shouldn't get any more conservative that it is now; and two, that Roberts is within the mainstream. The first argument seems to be held in reserve in case the Democrats decide to attack the next nominee even if she is just as much within the "conservative mainstream" as Roberts.
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