In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday defended the Supreme Court from what he believes are misconceptions held by the American people that he and his colleagues are “political actors” who are making decisions based on policy, not law.
Roberts is a member of the court’s 6-3 conservative majority, which has moved federal law to the right on a number of weighty issues in recent years, such as abortion and gun rights.
The court has also in several cases weakened the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, including in a ruling last week that led to outrage and disappointment on the left.
I often wonder if they believe this themselves, or if they just cynically say crap like this out of contempt for people.
Is it true?
Could I really have lost touch with the tenets of this office?
No. it’s the citizens who are wrong.
Homeboy has been incrementally gutting the voting rights act as part of the Republican agenda for 40+ years.
https://theprogressivemedia.substack.com/p/john-roberts-spent-44-years-killing
Fuck this partisan sack garbler:
Oh fuck all the way off you political hack. You’re playing for a very specific team, and that team is not us.
Awww, did some nasty journalist say that you volunteer to wear a leash for Trump daily? Diddums. You used to think you were cleverly manipulating the constitution behind the scenes for your own political ends and were being subtle about it, but now everyone says you’re his bitch and you know full well he’s a moron who shouldn’t be in charge of you, so you lost any self respect you ever had because you realised Trump has no less contempt for you than he has for any temporarily useful stupid idiot who swallowed his lies and was used by him to cement power and stroke his own ego.
Bro knows he’s facing a political shit storm with whatever the results of the midterms are.
I wish that started with a G or possibly Double T but the Statesian public has no taste for creative justice
Gosh, of only there was a way to dispel this supposed “wrong” view…
We know Roberts isnt playing politics. He thinks he’s a priest-king who can dictate his own beliefs as inarguable decree.
It would be one thing if he followed the history of the court and was bound by precedent, but letting six functionaries who were specifically asked about abortion and made unambiguous promises to respect it overturn the recognized right of bodily autonomy has made every right Americans enjoy subject to judicial nullification
The only sane thing is to specifically take away judicial supremacy, and restore the unelected academics to a subordinate role deferential to the actually elected branches of our government. Sure, wed essentially give up any hope of free speech or marriage rights or religious liberty being out of the each of Congress, but better a Congress who can be voted out than judges who arent protecting those rights anyway.
Lady Justice and the Constitution were your personal plaything, Roberts, but you prostituted them for Trump and now that you’ve made them completely subservient to his crazy stupid nastiness, you’ve realised he doesn’t need your permission for anything anymore and just expects your compliance. You’re his toy now and you want the American people, who you fucked over for decades, to supply the respect for the constitution and the law that you squandered so fully?
They’re not political actors.
They’re political sheep.
Put your money where your mouth is.
Other people are putting their money where his mouth is already.
Oh, go fuck yourself, Roberts, you right-wing cuck!
