John Roberts Absurdly Suggests the Supreme Court Has No ‘Political Bias’ – The chief justice bashed “public officials” who criticize judges for their partisan rulings “without a credible basis for such allegations”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/john-roberts-supreme-court-political-bias-1235223174/
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They’re right wingers. And right wingers have no incentive to be honest with the rest of us. They want hierarchy, that’s what defines their ideology. And it’s a lot harder to achieve that when you’re going around being honest with your potential targets.
John Robert’s overdid it with the white powder
John Roberts has helped destroy the credibility of the Supreme Court. He will go down in history as the worst Chief Justice in the history of the United States.
He’s been paid to spout idiotic opinions.
Except for Alito flying an upside down flag when their idiot dictator lost and saying America is a Christian nation even as the Constitution he’s sworn to defend says we’re certainly are not.
But if they do have credible bases, then it’s fine.
So with alito and gorsuch and Kavanaugh deciding the decisions before hearing the case and then searching for a legal justification for their decisions (and Thomas), then it’s okay to criticize them.
This guy literally claimed “waive” doesn’t mean “waive” because it would’ve resulted in a political win for Biden.
Citizen’s united, the repeal of RvW, the ludicrous idea that presidents are above the law, the unreported “gifts” …. Roberts court has been corrupt and partisan. Robert’s just doesn’t like to be scolded.
Someone should remind him that the internet is a thing and it doesn’t forget:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/secret-recording-puts-spotlight-alitos-strong-conservative-views-relig-rcna156535
Just one example among many.
Roberts’ non-partisan comments are sponsored by Harlan Crow.
They’re pulling up the draw bridges to there castles. Pay attention.
When the current court rules 6-3 along the lines of judges appointed by each political party, this argument is pretty pathetic.
The reason people hate Chief Justice Roberts and the conservative justices isn’t because they use selective originalism or make up rulings that fit their own personal belief systems, it is the fact that they brazenly lie about it to the American public. People in the US have eyes and ears. We can see Supreme Court justices taking bribes from donors, like Justice Thomas did. We can see justices making up rulings based on their own political beliefs, like Alito and Barrett consistently do. We can see the flagrant partisanship of Chief Justice Roberts when he writes executive criminal immunity into law, despite executive criminal immunity never existing in our country’s history. If the Court wants to make taken seriously again, they should stop allowing corruption to fester within their ranks. Until then, there approval rating is going to continue to drop.
Fuck you, John Roberts.
Wild. The inhabitants of the ivory tower of “law” find that they’re the smartest, most lawful people in all the land. These fucking fuckers….
Maybe show ethical behavior in order to obtain respect?
This traitor to all of the founding principles of America, gave human rights to corporations, ended civil and voting rights for many, stole bodily autonomy from women, made bribery accepted practice, and turned the Presidency into a tyrannical office with dictatorial powers.
Roberts, with the Federalist Society and the Republicans have corrupted the last bastion of checks and balances. It will be interesting to see how many years the damage lasts, or if it is unrecoverable.
Edit: clarity.
This is just weird, like a Trump-level weird statement to make from John Roberts.
Sort of like a school teacher explaining there is no racism in their all-white elementary school.
I feel like Roberts doesn’t understand the concept of political bias if he believes this statement. Or he’s just lying to appeal to the roughly 15% of americans who are happy with the Supreme Court these days.
Does he think everyone is stupid?
They literally took a case with no legal standing to get rid of Chevron. There was no legal basis for overturning Roe.
If this court isn’t 100% politicized, I’m an iguana
This shows you the magnitude of what we’re up against. These Heritage Foundation judges are not normal people who know they have political views that exist on a spectrum of reasonable possibilities. They are zealots who really do believe that their worldview is the only correct one, and therefore not “political”.
Let’s see your bank account and then you can tell me you have no political bias
They obviously have political leanings.. that’s why some by like him wouldn’t ever be nominated by a liberal president. Sillyness.
Ridiculous. That assertion does more to erode their credibility than anything else. We’ve all seen the party line votes by both sides. Obviously the court members are politically biased.
The right wing justices openly take what any sane person could only call bribes from litigants before their bench – the corruption stinks to high heaven.
The freedom to get paid by billionaires is exactly the kind of world they want us to live in.
Supreme gaslighting by the chief. 🙄
Without credible basis? You mean like when the wife of a justice helps organize what becomes an insurrection and said judge votes to protect the person who the insurrection was designed to protect immunity from crimes committed in office.
Comments like this piss me off.
You won dude. Your entire party won and you’ll have power for the rest of your life. And when you go away, probably due to old age cause heaven the fuck forbid these politicians retire, you’ll be replaced by someone who has the same views as you making sure nothing changes for generations upon generations.
Just stop lying to us. Take the mask off and go full brunt with your views. You literally got nothing to lose now. I am more insulted by these idiots trying to claim non-bias than just taking their masks off.
sounds like the chief justice is trying to curtail speech?
The credible basis for such allegations is directly linked to the unreported, unethical gifts (including RVs and lavish vacations) they receive from the billionaires who own most of SCOTUS.
John Roberts has trashed the reputation of SCOTUS through his actions and rulings. He is an obvious partisan hack with no respect for jurisprudence. He should be mocked and ridiculed until the end of his days and then long after.
John Roberts, who made a farce of Donald Trump’s first impeachment and who just decided that the chief justice can sit out Trump’s 2nd impeachment, doesn’t want you to view him in a political lens.
Roberts knows he sold his soul to MAGA and their puppet masters in the Federalist Society. The plan has always been to gain control of all three branches of government, the media, religion and the Armed Forces and not give it back. The oligarchs with their brought and paid for figurehead Trump will now do as they please, the courts, Capitol Hill are meaningless. It’s full speed ahead, consolidate power for 1% and enslave everyone else.
John Roberts has departed with reality.
Sorry do million dollar motorhomes not count as a credible basis?
We investigated ourselves and have determined we did nothing wrong, now stop criticizing us you peasants.
They’re out here just making stuff up. “Christians” who bank on bearing false witness.
Allowing Trump to be president again after he tried to end democracy on Jan 6 is proof of political bias.