In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Schumer for 'threatening' comments

[Polybius]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts publicly chastised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday over comments Schumer made outside the Supreme Court as the justices were hearing a case on abortion rights.

Schumer, D-N.Y., suggested that President Donald Trump's court appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, "won't know what hit" them if they vote to uphold abortion restrictions. He spoke during a rally on the sidewalk in front of the court building.

"I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," Schumer said.

In a highly unusual written statement issued late Wednesday, Roberts said, "Statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous." "All members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter," Roberts said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/rare-rebuke-chief-justice-roberts-slams-schumer-threatening-comments-n1150036

[sakabatou]

1. Oh, boo-hoo, Roberts

[BigmanPigman]

2. Good for you, Schumer!

He seems to have hit a nerve.

[cstanleytech]

3. If we ever can get a large enough majority we need to ram through a change to SCOTUS to 13 and pack

each spot with extremely young liberal justices.

[SunSeeker]

5. Yup. nt

[mahina]

9. Double yep

[Deuce]

12. I agree...

[Siwsan]

26. I think we should flat out end lifetime appointments to ANY office

Make the SC a 10 year term.

[cstanleytech]

27. 12 with an option to have the Senate vote for a single 12 year renewal that requires 80% or more

of the Senators to agree.

[Siwsan]

28. Sounds good!

[OnDoutside]

4. And yet crickets when it comes to Trump.

[abqtommy]

14. Plain for all to see a pass for tRUMP but not for me... Say it loud: WE DESERVE BETTER!

[former9thward]

22. Roberts criticized Trump in 2018.

After Trump was critical of a Hispanic judge whose ruling he did not like.

Roberts, Trump spar in extraordinary scrap over judges

https://apnews.com/c4b34f9639e141069c08cf1e3deb6b84

Roberts was praised on DU at the time for protecting the integrity of the courts.

[dware]

40. Yup.

Double standard is alive and well here.

[RockRaven]

6. Fucking partisan hypocrite. Where was your rebuke of Trump for the same, time after time?

You've already lost all legitimacy as anything less than a partisan hack. A historical disgrace. The man who reigned over the demolition of the independent judiciary. The court jester who bent his knee to the new king. FUCK YOU.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Trump calls out ordinary citizens who show up for jury duty. WTH does Chief Justice say about that?

[Firebrand Gary]

8. Welp Roberts,

The Chickens are coming home to roost! Don't know what to tell you.

[SoCalDem]

10. Retake the senate & impeach the bastard...and Gorsuch

and BeerBaby too.

Republicans would do it in a heartbeat. It's way past time that we started fighting fire with fire

[Polybius]

11. We can impeach today from the House

But first we need solid grounds to do so, because it's gonna take 67 votes in the Senate to convict. That's a lot of votes. At best be get 53 Democrats after the election.

[PuffedMica]

13. Schumer wasn't threatening the Supreme Court.

He was informing Gorsuch and Kavanaugh that their actions were the reason the Republicans were going to lose in the next election. The right wing blog-0-sphere needs to stop with the fake news and pretend outrage.

[Scarsdale]

15. "without fear or favor"??

THIS from a judge who presided over a "case" that had no witnesses allowed, nor real evidence. A case that everyone knew was already decided before it began. How does he explain THAT? Moscow Mitch should have had a stern rebuke. I have ZERO respect for Roberts after that sham impeachment trial. Time to limit the terms of these SC judges. Everyone knows what their politics are from the start.

[diva77]

39. +1000 This

K&R for exposure

[bucolic_frolic]

16. #Unpackthecourt

Seems to me that was trending yesterday

[Mc Mike]

17. Thanks, Senator Schumer. Rec, nt.

[Roy Rolling]

18. Tell it to somebody who cares

Defending two politically gerrymandered judges plus hundreds of other judges shows his bias. In a normal court, Schemer would be out-of-bounds.

But they make the rules, they get the criticism.

[Bengus81]

19. Aw shucks Roberts....tots and prayers

[Steelrolled]

20. This is the state of politics today

Four years ago it would have been shocking what Senator Schumer said, but now it is normal discourse.

[5X]

21. He's got his robe on backwards,

his bias is showing.

[former9thward]

23. Laurence Tribe was critical of Schumer.

Link to tweet

As was the American Bar Association (no friend of Trump's)

"The American Bar Association is deeply troubled by today’s statements from the Senate Minority Leader threatening two sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court over their upcoming votes in a pending case," the ABA said in a statement. "Whatever one thinks about the merits of an issue before a court, there is no place for threats -- whether real or allegorical. Personal attacks on judges by any elected officials, including the President, are simply inappropriate. Such comments challenge the reputation of the third, co-equal branch of our government; the independence of the judiciary; and the personal safety of judicial officers. They are never acceptable."

[Golden Raisin]

30. So was Don Lemon on CNN last night.

[Blues Heron]

24. This "justice" presided over a trial with no witnesses or evidence

and we're supposed to care what he thinks about anything? Right.

[yaesu]

25. awwww, did Sen. Schumer hurt his feel feels? Poor little corporate tool. nt

[PJMcK]

29. Hey, Roberts!

Have you heard anything that Trump has said about judges and the judiciary?

Have you ever noticed the thousands of frivolous lawsuits Trump has filed over the years?

Have you noticed the partisanship demonstrated by McConnell and his Senate?

Why don't you just shut up and sit down? You are truly useless to our country.

[Golden Raisin]

31. Roberts is a Republican appointed by a Republican President.

I am so sick of Senior Republicans in Congress and now on the Supreme Court always playing hardball, bringing knives and baseball bats to any conflict with Democrats to retain their power. When a Democrat like Schumer speaks up forcefully and also plays hardball Republicans all have snits and fits. Fuck them all.

[FreepFryer]

32. Pearls are clutched, hands wrung. But justice requires truth - and Schumer wasn't wrong.

Impolitic? Perhaps.

In this day and age? A blip compared to the avarice and corruption the opposition is enabling.

Stay tough, Democrats.

[Hoyt]

33. Honestly, neither trump or Schumer should be threatening SC Justices. I get why, but it's wrong.

[BlueIdaho]

34. Fuck Roberts and his Kangaroo Court. nt.

[not_the_one]

35. Hey Bob! Truth hurts, don' it?

Hopefully we have only just begun. "BITCH" is Karma's middle name. (last name being "chameleon" ) Ear worm, anyone?

[flying_wahini]

36. Schumer must have hit a nerve! Keep it up Chuck!

[Dawson Leery]

37. Johnny had nothing to say when Brett Kavanaugh did the same thing.

[Steelrolled]

38. Schumer apologized

He had no choice.

[Maxheader]

41. Didn't mince words...

Screw the thieves and robbers in congress...may they lose every piece of legislation
inspired by the ultra rightwinger religious zealots...