I make no bones about it that I think that SCOTUS is nothing more than a group of political hacks that are doing partisan work and in the process destroying what is left of this nation.
Then and when you need confirmation of their partisan crap Chief Justice had to go and whine about our perception of the court.
Chief Justice John Roberts wants Americans to know he doesn’t see the Supreme Court the way some critics might. Speaking Wednesday at a legal conference in Hershey, Pa., Roberts said many people wrongly believe the justices are “political actors” choosing outcomes based on policy preferences rather than legal analysis, NBC News reports. “I think they view us as truly political actors, which I don’t think is an accurate understanding of what we do,” he said. He was responding to a question about what the public most misunderstands regarding the high court, Politico reports.
Roberts, part of the court’s 6-3 conservative majority that has shifted federal law rightward on issues including abortion, guns, and voting rights, didn’t address any specific cases. But he stressed that the court is often obligated to hand down decisions that are disliked, saying rulings are “based on our best effort to figure out what the Constitution means and how it applies.” He acknowledged that the public is free to criticize the court’s work, while urging that critiques target decisions, not individual judges, warning personal attacks are “not appropriate” and can lead to “very serious problems,” especially amid heightened security concerns. He also did not mention President Trump, who himself has been among critics of the court at times, CNN reports.
Seriously?
This POS is saying this crap without laughing?
Our criticism can lead to ‘very serious problems’? Really thanx to the Roberts court we already ass deep in serious problems and they can thank themselves for all the problems…..Citizens United, abortion rulings, education rulings, allowing insider trading by politicians, gutted voting rights etc etc….
Roberts and his happy band of hacks have turned the court into a partisan political arm of government.
I have no sympathy for Roberts and his fragile feelings.
If he wants us to stop hating them then I propose he and his partisan dipsticks retire to Mar-A-Lago and let the country move forward for with them it will stand still and then start in reverse.
Any thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
They must introduce limited terms and upper age restrictions for those judges at some stage. They seem to become entrenched in a lifestyle of corruption that can continue for decades because they are ‘untouchable’.
Best wishes, Pete.
That is why they are picked for the political leanings….once in are there until death. That needs to be changed immediately. chuq
Don’t hold your breath …
Sad I know it is wishful thinking. chuq
It’s the “untouchable” part that is the most frightening.
We need an actual enforceable code of ethics for the supreme court justices. Right now the only people who can rein in these jokers when they get out of line is they themselves. That’s like putting burglars in charge of the justice system.
We had a case here in Wisconsin a few years ago where one of our more loony and far right wing nut jobs on the court actually tried to choke one of his fellow justices, who just happened to be a tiny little 70 something woman. And nothing was done about it because his “conservative” cronies on the court refused to act. Another “justice” we had openly accepted thousands of dollars of free legal services from a law firm that regularly brought cases before the court and refused to recuse himself. Another so-called conservative. And once again his cronies who held a majority on the court refused to do anything about him.