A second intellectual inconsistency mars Chief Justice John Roberts’s decision in the Louisiana abortion case released on Monday.

Earlier, I explained how Roberts has a bizarre and intellectually untenable habit of honoring the legal principle known as “stare decisis” sometimes but ignoring it at other times. Concomitantly, let’s see how Roberts picks and chooses when and when not to show “deference” to elected legislative bodies. Hint: Roberts defers more to liberal legislative actions than to conservative ones.