Serious question - has a Chief Justice ever been as rude to a President of the United States

[Samantha]

18. I don't have a problem with this for various reasons

Obama has sort of called out the Supreme Court in his state of the union addresses. Particularly, I am thinking about the remarks he made about Citizens United. I believe I remember Roberts sitting there shaking his head no to President Obama's remarks. I don't think President Obama thought he was "rude" to the Supreme Court justices but in honest disagreement and had the right to be publicly critical. Roberts does not see his remarks as rude either but within fair bounds.

But best of all, Roberts shows his ignorance. Our Federal Government is divided into 3 branches for a reason: checks and balances. Even if the Executive Branch (that would be the President) is a Constitutional lawyer, he has no Constitutional authority to make decisions on the legality of a law; that is the Supreme Court's job, and of course Roberts knows that....

In this particular administration, Republicans would pounce on any given opening President Obama gave them to draft articles of impeachment against him for usurping the rights Constitutionally granted to the Legislative Branch or the Judicial Branch . Within the last week or so, there was a report of one Southern politician who said opposing the African-American President is always good politics in the South.... That act, the act of filing impeachment charges, would be extremely good red meat to the throw to the right-wing base of the Republican party.

But simply as a Republican, I don't think Roberts wants to go down in history as helping to usher in the rights of same-sex marriage and I believe he resents being put into a position where he will have to do just that. So he is pointing his finger at President Obama saying, "He could have taken care of this." It is another one of those political hot potatoes some politicians don't want to leave their fingerprints on. (Before I get flamed for saying that I would like to volunteer the information that when gay marriage was on the ballot in Maryland, I proudly voted yes and cried with happiness the next day when I saw gay couples' reaction to the passage of this law.)

Sam