Can someone please remind me who sold out the country to corporate interests and allowed super PACs to exist? Oh yeah, thank Chief Justice Roberts. Go fuck yourself.
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Suuure Johnny.
this fucking guy. He is just saying that so his wife can get more multi-million dollar contacts from democrat leaning orgs. The court isn't only partisan, it's illegitimate.
I am just calling it the SC Voting Rights Interpretation now, the Act Congress approved has been completely hollowed out. If they want to create laws they should have ran for Congress.
I used to think that we had to add another 4 seats to the SCOTUS, but I no longer believe that. Now I think we need to add 20 seats to the Supreme Court.
We have allowed SCOTUS to remain so small so that one bad-faith president can negatively alter the course of the nation for half a century. We should increase it to 29 or 31, with rolling term limits, so every president gets to appoint a handful, but never enough to throw off the balance to any great degree.
Make it a seat for each state in the union.
nah, that’s what messed up the senate.
If not political, why political shaped?
Undoing decades of settled law to strip rights from women, minorities, and everyone else. You're damn right we view you as political. You're a disgrace to the law and should be impeached yesterday.
"Settled law" is such a cop out. If there is any ambiguity, any question, the law should be rewritten. Anything "decided" can be "undecided", why take the chance?
Of course they're political, but the legislative should be drafting legislation at a quality that the SC only CAN touch it very lightly.
The whole process is broken, I guess is my point, and SC latitude is a symptom of shitty and lazy legislators.
That's bullshit, there's always room for interpretation of any law. Especially when laws start overlapping and someone has to decide which law takes precedence.
The real failure of the US political system is that voters that were stupid enough to believe that uncompromising is the same as strength. Once bipartisanship collapsed, the only way to get anything done was through the courts because as soon as any law passed someone somewhere sued to stop it. The courts became political because all laws passed through them.
This happened because Republicans realized their actual policies are unpopular and don't work, so they have specifically been stacking courts with conservative judges for decades so an unelected cabal of rich assholes get to decide all the laws in the country.
If it walks, talks and looks like a political shill...
Spare us your denial asshole. We are knee deep in the bullshit you have created already.
His name will forever represent the most corrupt SCOTUS in history, and he's trying to mitigate that despicable legacy.
Just like PEDOnald will represent the worst president in history - at least so far.
He better be the worst in history, we couldn't survive anyone worse.
To put things in perspective.
About 40% of the then population of the American colonies were Patriots and fought against the British in the revolutionary war. The war itself functioned like a civil war.
Roughly 40% of the population of the current United States supports Trump, not perfectly unwavering support but pretty staunch nonetheless. The remaining 60% are too busy thinking that their problems are the ones that need to be addressed first and a staggering number of those people are perfectly willing to throw away decent compromise simply because they weren't perfectly satiated.
All of this to say: Trump is the tip of the iceberg.
Oh, then give us back voting rights, abortion, and presidential accountability
Sorry, the best they can do is gaslight while they pass more regressive rulings via the shadow docket.
The Republican justices thought December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas's gerrymandering that favored white poeple/Republicans, but somehow last week wasn't too close to the election to shoot down Louisiana's changes that boosted minorities. That's pretty clearly policy at work, not the law.
Just a reminder that between his Ivy League connections, his Reagan/Bush services, and Chief Justice Rehnquist's untimely demise, Mr. Non-Political-Actor here went from mere well-placed attorney to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in less than five years, mostly by way of his work on Bush v. Gore in 2000.
Not a political actor, lol.
If you don't want to be seen as political actors, don't act like political actors.
What does he think he’s doing by constantly complaining about this?
Justices definitely consider their words before speaking. What could possibly be the reason beyond letting off steam… repetitively and publicly?
Is it to tamp down public criticism of the court? If so, who cares? It won’t work, and they have lifetime appointments.
Is it out of guilt because the assertion is obviously factually untrue?
Maybe some of these guys just watch way too much Fox News and conservative media. They’ve been airing grievances just like these outlets. LOOKING AT YOU ALITO
Roberts, in a hot-dog costume, trying to figure out who did this
Chief Justice John Roberts wrongly says some bullshit that is wrong.
I often wonder if they believe this themselves, or if they just cynically say crap like this out of contempt for people.
It’s contempt, they all belive they are better than us, that by saying nothing it makes it true. They know they are lying but they are in positions of power that no longer require their honesty. Lying is more lucrative.
They think the republic is already dead. They are playing the sheep for their masters, to live out their lives in imperial splendor as they betray their country and oaths.
Roberts is an enigma to me.
For Alito and Thomas, it's clearly contempt. Roberts seems like he thinks he's somehow doing the right thing?
Or maybe that's just his mind's defense mechanism. Because accepting the reality of what he has done to this country is just too much
Is it true?
Could I really have lost touch with the tenets of this office?
No. it's the citizens who are wrong.
... Perhaps stop acting like them then
How fucking patronising.
The most political Supreme Court justice is trying to claim he's not? He can pound his shadow docket up his ass sideways.
Alito and Thomas are the most political hands down, so far.
Does anyone still remember that the Supreme Court - which already included a certain Clarence Thomas at the time -ensured during the 2000 election that the votes in Florida would not be recounted, thereby guaranteeing that Bush Jr. would become president?
I would certainly say that this is exactly how a political actor behaves.
Let's also remember the deciding vote on handing the 2000 election to the devil, which lost, was the now lionized Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Notorious indeed. You can draw a straight line from their successful steal of 2000 to 2020 and now.
I think most people have soured a bit on Ginsberg after she refused to retire, only to die under Trump
Homeboy has been incrementally gutting the voting rights act as part of the Republican agenda for 40+ years.
https://theprogressivemedia.substack.com/p/john-roberts-spent-44-years-killing
Fuck this partisan sack garbler:
ROFL!
Oh fuck all the way off you political hack. You’re playing for a very specific team, and that team is not us.
Oh my sweet summer child.
I mean, if he actually believes that. Which I don't think he does.
Given everything they have done, why pretend anymore? I honestly don't know who they are trying to impress. They know they are succeeding at eroding democracy. Congrats. You're on the team now. So wear your T-shirt.
Roberts is fascinating, he really truly believes he can escape with an intact legacy while simultaneously overseeing the final destruction of the functional democracy that was the US. It kind of speaks to the mentality deep down, they don't really understand the finality and monumentality of their actions, and where it's going to lead us. But his legacy is secure: one of the most destructive men who was ever a part of our Republic.
Bro knows he's facing a political shit storm with whatever the results of the midterms are.
Dems would have to get a supermajority to start removing justices or start doing anything since we know Trump will veto the bills.
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Awww, did some nasty journalist say that you volunteer to wear a leash for Trump daily? Diddums. You used to think you were cleverly manipulating the constitution behind the scenes for your own political ends and were being subtle about it, but now everyone says you're his bitch and you know full well he's a moron who shouldn't be in charge of you, so you lost any self respect you ever had because you realised Trump has no less contempt for you than he has for any temporarily useful stupid idiot who swallowed his lies and was used by him to cement power and stroke his own ego.
No one is accusing them of being political actors. That's not how the court system works. The fact that he claims that is an effort to play everyone for fools.
They are however partisan hacks.
They are however partisan hacks.
It's worse than that, they're actively corrupt. Robert's or Alito's Judicial philosophy is as irrelevant as Thomas' racial identity; they believe in getting paid.
Vampires and thieves
We know Roberts isnt playing politics. He thinks he's a priest-king who can dictate his own beliefs as inarguable decree.
It would be one thing if he followed the history of the court and was bound by precedent, but letting six functionaries who were specifically asked about abortion and made unambiguous promises to respect it overturn the recognized right of bodily autonomy has made every right Americans enjoy subject to judicial nullification
The only sane thing is to specifically take away judicial supremacy, and restore the unelected academics to a subordinate role deferential to the actually elected branches of our government. Sure, wed essentially give up any hope of free speech or marriage rights or religious liberty being out of the each of Congress, but better a Congress who can be voted out than judges who arent protecting those rights anyway.
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