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.
Spare us your denial asshole. We are knee deep in the bullshit you have created already.
What does he think he’s doing by constantly complaining about this?
Justices definitely consider their words before speaking. What could possibly be the reason beyond letting off steam… repetitively and publicly?
Is it to tamp down public criticism of the court? If so, who cares? It won’t work, and they have lifetime appointments.
Is it out of guilt because the assertion is obviously factually untrue?
Maybe some of these guys just watch way too much Fox News and conservative media. They’ve been airing grievances just like these outlets. LOOKING AT YOU ALITO
Just a reminder that between his Ivy League connections, his Reagan/Bush services, and Chief Justice Rehnquist’s untimely demise, Mr. Non-Political-Actor here went from mere well-placed attorney to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in less than five years, mostly by way of his work on Bush v. Gore in 2000.
Not a political actor, lol.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrongly says some bullshit that is wrong.
… Perhaps stop acting like them then
Vampires and thieves
I often wonder if they believe this themselves, or if they just cynically say crap like this out of contempt for people.
It’s contempt, they all belive they are better than us, that by saying nothing it makes it true. They know they are lying but they are in positions of power that no longer require their honesty. Lying is more lucrative.
They think the republic is already dead. They are playing the sheep for their masters, to live out their lives in imperial splendor as they betray their country and oaths.
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:
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
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.
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.
They’re not political actors.
They’re political sheep.
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?
