Sociology group fires back at Roberts for 'gobbledygook' comment
Source: The Hill
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 10/11/17 09:21 AM EDT
A top sociology group fired at Supreme Court Justice John Roberts for referring to sociology as “gobbledygook” during a Supreme Court argument last week.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, the president of the American Sociological Association, wrote in a letter to Roberts on behalf of the group sharing his concerns about Roberts’ comments.
“In an era when facts are often dismissed as “fake news,” we are particularly concerned about a person of your stature suggesting to the public that scientific measurement is not valid or reliable and that expertise should not be trusted,” the letter read. “What you call ‘gobbledygook’ is rigorous and empirical.”
Roberts made the comments during the case Gill v. Whitford, which centered on partisan gerrymandering. He said during the arguments that he was hesitant to remove gerrymandering “away from democracy” and have courts make decisions on the topic based on “sociological gobbledygook," according to NPR.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/354876-sociologists-fires-back-at-roberts-for-calling-sociology
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I wonder if the dems will ever see power again. No one is addressing our compromised electoral process so why do we expect any different results come 2018/20? I'm almost as disgusted with the dems as I am with the repubs. The dems have played nice & haven't done a GD thing while the GOP broke every rule in the book, from the stolen elections of 2000 & 2004, to lying us into war, to the stolen SCOTUS nom, to the coup of 2016. The dems were so busy looking forward & taking the high road that now the GOP has their boot on our neck. My non-political friends, the ones who were all fired up after the election & the inauguration, who went to the marches & for the first time ever, called their reps, they are already disengaged. "It's just to draining to pay attention to," said one friend. "I count on you to keep me informed," said another. Yeah, we really are doomed.
Sorry I'm so downhead. Everyday is a new outrage & most of the people I know are sleepwalking through it. 
all off voted to decimate the 1964 Voting Right Act in the Shelby case, based on race, and this asshole is going to make a decision on gerrymandering....................
Has anyone looked at what this asshole did:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/colorblind-justice-john-roberts-voting-rights-north-carolina/
And lets be clear this asshole makes rules for the court and every year he has a big old meeting to make RULES, so if anyone thinks that he is in this to help the country, read this article he is not:
http://prospect.org/article/roberts-rules-protecting-corporations
"NINE DAYS AFTER SANDRA Robertson’s verdict was handed down, Chief Justice John Roberts sent Congress a package of changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the most important of which concerned discovery. Though the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are boring, technical, and abstract, and a discussion of them can make even lawyers’ eyes glaze over, they are perhaps more significant than any other federal law because they are the primary rules that govern how federal courts handle litigation. They control how a party brings a lawsuit, the types and scope of pretrial discovery the parties can demand from each other, and how a case generally proceeds through the federal courts. As legal scholars Stephen Subrin and Thomas Main have written, “Procedure is power, of course, so the stakes of choosing one over the other produces different winners and losers.”
He should be Impeached
