Schumer Being Reprimanded by Chief Justice Roberts 'Hurts the Notion of Judicial Independence...

[babylonsister]

Chuck Schumer Being Reprimanded by Chief Justice Roberts 'Hurts the Notion of Judicial Independence,' Say Legal Experts
By James Walker On 3/5/20 at 7:32 AM EST


Supreme Court Justice John Roberts' rebuke of Chuck Schumer over remarks he made at an abortion rights rally risked hurting "the notion of judicial independence" and "public faith" in America's top court, two senior lawyers have said.

The Obama-era U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Joyce Vance said Chief Justice Roberts' comments released in a Wednesday statement risked damaging public faith in the Supreme Court's neutrality.

Gibson Dunn Partner Ted Boutrous added that Roberts should have "repudiated" President Donald Trump's attacks on Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Ginsburg last week, suggesting his failure to do so while blasting Schumer brought the court's impartiality into question.

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https://www.newsweek.com/justice-roberts-chuck-schumer-1490651?fbclid=IwAR1yZVgc7SyBrd1HY3hXmOvbpSzyY4mXDaDl-T7FoTXQV2W4JLwUzA5nvXk

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Justice Roberts created this problem for himself.

He is a partisan.

[2naSalit]

2. I think Schumer did that

to cause Roberts to openly expose his bias and it worked.

[PRETZEL]

4. There may be alot of truth to that

especially since Roberts didn't defend Sotomayer or Ginsberg after Trump attacked them a month or so ago.

[2naSalit]

9. That's probably why

Sotomayor sounded the alarm last week... if she is breaking silence to alert the public of a biased SCOTUS then there is an obvious bias in the chambers. I bet the boofer has been harassing the women on the bench and probably their aids.

[PRETZEL]

12. I believe I may have made a similar comment when those discussions were happening,

it is very much out of character for an Associate Justice openly question the Chief Justice.

[bluestarone]

13. Right on!

Roberts needs to come out publicly and answer why he DID NOT say a thing then!!

[Polybius]

18. My guess is that Roberts didn't like what Sotomayer said right before Trump asked her to recuse

Here's what she said in dissent of the “wealth test” for legal immigrants. :

“Today’s decision follows a now-familiar pattern,” Sotomayor began. “The Government seeks emergency relief from this Court, asking it to grant a stay where two lower courts have not. The Government insists—even though review in a court of appeals is imminent—that it will suffer irreparable harm if this Court does not grant a stay. And the Court yields.”

“This Court is partly to blame for the breakdown in the appellate process,” Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, wrote. “That is because the Court—in this case, the New York cases, and many others—has been all too quick to grant the Government’s 'reflexiv[e]' requests. But make no mistake: Such a shift in the Court’s own behavior comes at a cost.”

Seems tame to me, Roberts should just ignore this and whatever Schumer says.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. I stand with Schumer.....

CJ Roberts did NOTHING in defense of Sotomayor and Ginsberg when Trump singled them out. He sat on his hands.

He has allowed Trump to politicize the Supreme Court.

[wryter2000]

5. He needs to worry

About what his pals on the Court are doing to judicial independence

[gratuitous]

6. Interesting point there, John

How do you feel about it when a high government official names justices on your court and says they should recuse themselves from all cases having to do with his branch of the federal government? Does that damage the public faith in your court's neutrality? If so, have you been in a coma for the last month? If not, then why are you all bent out of shape about the Senate Minority Leader quoting one of your associate justices?

[efhmc]

7. Telling the truth will do that, Justice.

[SunSeeker]

8. Roberts is about to issue a nasty anti-abortion opinion and he's getting buggy about blowback.

We knew this was going to happen when Kavanaugh replaced Kennedy.

[happy feet]

10. This!

[FBaggins]

11. It's worth pointing out that Tribe agrees with Roberts

Any time that happens... we have to at least consider that the underlying behavior (Schumer’s) was the real problem.

These remarks by @SenSchumer were inexcusable. Chief Justice Roberts was right to call him on his comments. I hope the Senator, whom I’ve long admired and consider a friend, apologizes and takes back his implicit threat. It’s beneath him and his office.

[LanternWaste]

14. It's also worth pointing out Tribe confused 'imply' and 'infer.'

[FBaggins]

17. No... he really didn't.

It’s clear that Schumer intended to say something else... but there’s no spinning this. What’s he said may not be what he intended to say... but it is what he said. And that was entirely out of bounds.

[in2herbs]

15. More evidence that the number of judges on the USSC needs to be expanded under the next

Dem administration. Pressure will have to be put on Biden, however, because he has said he is not in favor of expanding the court.

[BSdetect]

16. k&r

[Crunchy Frog]

19. It's about time we got over that delusion anyway.

[struggle4progress]

20. ... "We will tell President Trump and Senate Republicans who have stacked the court

with right-wing ideologies that you’re going to be gone in November, and you will never be able to do what you’re trying to do now ever, ever again” ...

Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman accused critics of deliberately misinterpreting the senator's remarks.

“Sen. Schumer’s comments were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision," Goodman said in a statement ...

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/486007-schumer-warns-kavanaugh-and-gorsuch-they-will-pay-the-price

Justice Roberts merely exhibits his own dishonest partisanship