Comment by rayiner

It depends which civil liberties you're talking about. The Roberts court has been good for free speech and gun rights, and it wasn't just the liberals. Brown v. EMA was 7-2 for example. The pro-habeas Hamdan, Hamdi, Boumediene cases also came out under Roberts. Several positive decisions on drugs (can't ban hullucigenic teas) and search an seizure too (GPS case).