Schumer Spokesman fires back at Chief Justice: "Roberts does not just call balls and strikes."

[Dennis Donovan]

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BREAKING: In extraordinary statement, Chief Justice Roberts admonishes Senate Minority Leader Schumer over Schumer's comments outside the US Supreme Court.

https://nbcnews.to/2vCHlnG
In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Schumer for 'threatening' comments
"You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price," Schumer said of Trump appointees as the justices were hearing a case on abortion rights.

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Schumer spokesman: “For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsberg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes.”

5:43 PM - Mar 4, 2020

[Roland99]

1. Where was Roberts when Twitler was denigrating the more liberal judges, saying they should recuse

[Rebl2]

7. Exactly

Maybe mr Roberts wrote that for trump to tweet out

[Yeehah]

26. Roberts is a toady and will be remembered as a toady

His vote on the ACA followed the law. That's about the only good thing I can say about him.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Roberts' court are the "Black Sox" cheating baseball team

not the women on it, of course

[malaise]

3. K & R

This is huge

[gratuitous]

4. Schumer was just quoting Justice Boof

I guess the Chief Justice can't stand it when his colleague's threats to others are thrown back at him.

[bluestarone]

5. Roberts will fuck us ALL!!

They all lay in the same SWAMP!!! Be ready for very bad decisions to come from THIS court!

[Magoo48]

9. Roberts is a conservative lapdog.

[Maribelle]

6. I hope we have a Democratic Senate in the fall and keep a Democratic House ...

then we can begin to undo some of the harm Trump and his Lemmings have brought to the people of this country.

I love the sounds of Supreme Court Impeachment with my morning coffee.

[Rebl2]

8. Well I

hope we can, but not very hopeful-yet.

[Farmer-Rick]

11. Impeachment of both Thomas and rapist Brett

Should be on the clean up list.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. It's a regular topic on Twitter

Glen Kirschner has mentioned it every few days. He's got a whole process plumbed out. UNPACK the Court, I think is the way he phrases it. Don't imagine it can't be done. No one thought McConnell could steal a seat, or Trump could steal an election with foreign assist. Look at all the bills never to see the light of day in the Senate.

[House of Roberts]

17. But will Schumer have the balls to dump the filibuster?

Because that's the only way a slim Dem majority will get anything done.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. If not they must focus on stiffening up the traditional Senate rules

Republicans have found every hole in everything, from voting rights to Majority Leader privilege to gerrymander to ignoring subpoenas and Congressional oversight. The Constitution is a shambles.

[House of Roberts]

30. I'm not worried about the Constitution.

If there's a Dem President, House, and Senate, they better not ignore any subpoenas.
If the RW SCOTUS gets in the way, Schumer will have to dump the filibuster. If he won't, we're back to Obama and Harry Reid, watching one Progressive goal slip away after another.

[SoCalDem]

23. All rightwingers except for Thomas are YOUNG

The court will be pissy for DECADES

[House of Roberts]

31. If Dems have the Presidency and the Senate in 2021, Thomas keeling over would end

all the pissy, and result in a 5-4 Dem majority. If the court gets too RW activist, two additional justices would be required to right the ship.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. The majority of Americans is with Sen. Schumer

Our righteous disgust with this stolen and packed Court is a good sign. We are priming up for the election and we will not lose.

[mfcorey1]

13. Well, that locks down another alternative the American people will not

have: The Supreme Court. We'd better let the United Nations that we no longer will be registered as a Democratic nation.

[BSdetect]

14. If we Dems win we must act to use every minute to crush these traitors.

[UTUSN]

15. K&R

[raging moderate]

16. Hooray for Senator Charles Schumer!

Mr. Schumer, you have spoken the words of a prophet.

[Totally Tunsie]

19. Pray for the health of RBG.

[jimfields33]

28. And Byer. He's going to be 82. That's just as scary.

My 81 year old neighbor dropped dead four months ago. Seemed.very healthy and youthful for his age. I know anecdotes but still.

[turbinetree]

20. Typical Federalist Society asshole....................and he is sitting on the bench................

Gotta thank all of the senate assholes and those that put his name up for nomination..............

Federalist Society
Judge Roberts has stated that he cannot recall ever having been a member of the Federalist Society. He sought and received published corrections from several major news organizations retracting earlier reports that he had been a member.[13] On July 25, 2005, however, the Washington Post reported that John Roberts is listed in the Society's 1997–1998 leadership directory as serving on the Steering Committee of the Federalist Society. The same source also indicates the possibility that the individuals listed in the "leadership directory" are, in a technical sense, not necessarily "members" of the society, and no confirmable membership information is officially disclosed by the Society itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts_Supreme_Court_nomination

[mountain grammy]

22. All republicans lie.

[turbinetree]

25. Yepper spot on....................and the country has "guy' leading the bench having done it........

and they wonder why citizens in this country are upset.......................

[mountain grammy]

21. Worst umpire ever. A partisan hack!

[DEbluedude]

24. And so it goes. Never fuckin" ending.

These traitors will take a lifetime to bring to justice. I really didn’t think Roberts would go this far. It’s astonishing. They see their power slowly but surely slipping away. More is yet to come. Stay tuned. November can’t get here soon enough. The beginning of the end for these traitors.

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. A right-wing SC scares me more than anything else in Washington. nt

[Ponietz]

29. Rec for the reckoning that's coming

[NotHardly]

32. Roberts is a bought man ... we knew it, now he's merely confirming it...

[uponit7771]

33. Just damn, USCJ is a straight up hack

[spanone]

34. Right-Wing MFERS

[roamer65]

35. First up appointments to the SC for a Dem president.

President Barack Obama and the Honorable Merrick Garland.

[SoCalDem]

36. Obama would not want it..

He's enjoying life.

[DFW]

37. Every now and then Roberts is good for a surprise

Like upholding the ACA, for example. I think Roberts follows his natural tendencies as a right-wing Catholic normally, even on such far-reaching issues as Voting Rights, which he was only too happy to curtail in favor of his own Party. However, SOMETIMES, on social issues that he understands will affect tens of millions of people for decades to come (barring a future overriding decision), he reflects on what history will say of him fifty years down the road, and surprises everyone, both friend and foe.

[VOX]

38. So when 45 refers to "my judges," he's telling the truth about an actual event in observable reality

Facts and 45 are a wide chasm apart, so this is just a one-off from the usual bullshit.