Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution in an annual report Wednesday that steered clear of direct discussion of modern controversies.
Roberts’ history-heavy statement made no mention of Donald Trump, nor the intense conflict that has cropped up between federal courts and the White House since his second inauguration nearly a year ago.
Trump has questioned the legitimacy of courts that paused his policies and called for the impeachment of judges who ruled against him.
Fuck you, you lying fuck… YOU’RE literally the driving force for why we have lost faith
Probably should have thought about that before you made the president a king
Well maybe he should uphold the Constitution instead of wipe his ass with it.
That dude is going down in history as a giant asshole that was bribed heavily.
Justice Taney would like a word.
Thomas would have a word, but he is a strict follower of “Keep Your Mouth Shut, and Don’t Prove You’re An Idiot” philosophy. His wife has probably prohibited him from speaking, and he’s scared shitless of that Bulldog.
This is not the time or the place. /s
No no you see, when he talks about “judicial independence” he means “judicial independence from the Constitution”
This dude will go down in history as the man who put the final nail in the coffin of the “republic” all representation of the people died with citizens united. Our government is now literally occupied by Israel and oligarchs a lot of whom are immigrants from South Africa
I absolutely agree in principle. This court however is corrupt as all fucking hell. I want a court that tells me no when I want to infringe on the freedom of others, not one that says anything is ok when the president does it. Also I want one that actually believes in precedent like Roe.
“This arrangement, now in place for 236 years, has served the country well,” Roberts wrote in the report, which was released by the Supreme Court hours before the start of the new year.
“It was only when I started giving Trump all of the power that is supposed to lie in the Supreme Court that the arrangement started to fail,” Roberts continued. “I thought I could get an even greater position of power by kowtowing to the demands of Trump, but now he says that my ass isn’t as supple as it used to be, and that I keep losing concentration when I’m servicing him. But what can I do? He keeps falling asleep in the middle. Justice Thomas said the same thing. I knew people had said that with Trump, loyalty is a one-way street, but it’s shocking to experience it myself. I used to have all the power in the world, but now I just really feel used by this whole ordeal.”
Ya know it’s kinda funny that I’m finding I agree with Justice Roberts, I think it would be great for the Judiciary to be a ‘separate but equal’ “branch” of our government. No, really, this is a great idea. Like we could have like maybe three, separate but equal branches, maybe this is a stretch, but we could call them, umm, The Judiciary, The Legislative, and the Executive Branches.
What if each of them actually did their job? And only their job? Or am I being too fantastical?
And maybe that “separate but equal” can serve as a check and balance to keep any branch from abusing their power …. Or is that off the deep end?
That sounds great! The only way I could envision it failing is if one branch gave another outsized power in a partisan bid, while another refused to be a check on other branches… Boy, that would fly in the face of the Constitution and introduce a fundamental crisis for our country…
Yep, we got oodles of that going on, right now. :-(
Had to double check the source, to make sure this wasn’t The Onion.
A report full of right-wing lies. Might be worth mentioning that point.
What Roberts really doesn’t want is for Congress to exercise its constitutional power to regulate the workings of the Supreme Court and to establish ethical standards backed by law.
I suspect he’s more concerned with potential congressional action to limit corruption or in imposing term limits on Supreme Court Justices than he is in any powers that Donald Trump has taken upon himself.
This is just a prep for when the GOP loses significantly in the mid terms and the pendulum swings back against them. There is no intent to not be in lock step with project 2025, it is just a coincidence. I hope there’s significant restructure of the supreme court soon as more than half of them are bought and paid for.
Sorry bud, an indepdent judicary ship sailed a long time ago. As soon as people started labeling judges as liberal or conversative, Democractic or Republican appointed, etc.
This kind of wording confirms that judges are just part of the political process.
Says the unabashedly biased, bought and paid for chief justice
He’s mad that the lower courts aren’t completely corrupt and the poors aren’t worshipping his decisions.
I’m sympathetic to the idea that we don’t need a “Supreme Court”. We have a representative legislature. They don’t even follow the constitution or precedents. Frankly the institution is illegitimate.
