"You don't want the political branches telling you what the law is"

[Ferrets are Cool]

Chief Justice John Roberts
Well, I sure as FUCK don't want christo-fascists telling me what the law is.

More context than original post.

When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said Friday he was concerned that lately some critics of the court’s controversial decisions have questioned the legitimacy of the court, which he said was a mistake. He did not mention any specific cases or critics by name.

“If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is,” Roberts said while being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at its conference in Colorado Springs.


So STFU, assswipe.

[Deuxcents]

1. Your court IS political, Chief Roberts

Would be nice to have your justices apply the law

[CrispyQ]

2. Maybe he needs to take 5th grade social studies again? -nt

[former9thward]

13. What does 5th grade SS teach?

What Roberts said is very standard. The political branches do not tell the judicial branch what the law is.

[DBoon]

3. The right wing works tirelessly to destroy any vestige of representative democracy

We worry about citizens being deprived of the vote

The court want to make voting irrelevant

[Cha]

4. Your fucking Court is

"Political" Robers!

Stop Insulting the Intelligence of the American People.. Right NOW!!!:

[bluestarone]

5. Worst SC. court EVER

Religion Fucked up America BIG TIME! (our enemy KNEW what our downfall would be) Divide and conquer, the old saying, and it's ALMOST working!! VOTE like never before!!

[delisen]

6. Roberts seems as clueless as Thomas

Roberts is treating these recent decisions as no big deal. As if he thinks they are not the earthquakes they are.

Yesterday I was a free human being, a full citizen. Today I am less. To Roberts it is like a ball game. You win some, you lose some. No big deal. He does not comprehend the meaning of his decisions.

We need to win the House as well as the Senate and we need to enlarge the court. We can’t leave our fate in the hands of people with such shallow intellect and feelings.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Agreed

[Hortensis]

7. Oh, yes, THAT comment was a classic. It smacked him in his hypocritical face. nt

[H2O Man]

9. While I agree

with others here that the USSC is political, I think it essential to recognize that they are basing positions on their religion, as well. The synergy of the two is most dangerous.

Recommended, before I forget to mention that.

Whenever a group of people self-identifies as "God's choosen people" in an aggressive and threatening way, it doesn't go well. There are too many examples of the destruction and suffering to go into many examples. But I can sum it up best, perhaps, by comparing the "christian nationalist" movement to the flock of David Koresh.

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. Bingo

[H2O Man]

11. This issue has

been on my mind quite a bit lately. We saw it lifting its head years ago. It is the combination of the USSC, the religious self-righteous, and the milita-minded's synergy that is resulting in the gathering force.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. It is very disturbing to me. nt

[DFW]

14. Roberts is baffled by having five colleagues far to his right.

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He seems to think it’s still 2006, and he was brought in as a bulwark against some perceived leftward drift. He doesn’t seem to grasp that he is dealing with five right wing extremist colleagues with an open, unashamed, activist right-wing agenda, not intent on protecting the Constitution, but perverting it to conform to a specific political agenda. I am truly amazed that Roberts would even entertain the notion that the nation hasn’t noticed.

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. Baffled seems a good word to describe his statements.

[DFW]

16. He came on the court thinking he was the right wing bastion

Now, he sees himself in the papers being described as a moderate swing vote, and must be saying, "HUH????"

Unfortunately, I don't yet think that it frightens him. I hope it does before it's too late.

[H2O Man]

17. Very well said.

I suspect that he is aware that he is losing his leadership role on the court to Clarence. His whimpering may be, in part, an attempt to regain his former position of influence.

[DFW]

18. I suspect he is losing it to Alito, which would be worse

Alito is a militant ideologue, and mean as a cornered rattlesnake, with a bite twice as toxic.