cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44407468
Chief Justice John Roberts warned against personal attacks on the judiciary, telling an audience Tuesday that while criticism of opinions is fair game, “personally directed hostility” is dangerous and must stop.
Roberts did not mention Donald Trump by name and, as he so often does, he went out of his way to stress that the attacks he was referring to were coming from “not just any one political perspective.” However, the chief justice’s admonishment came weeks after Trump said that justices who ruled against his sweeping tariffs were an “embarrassment to their families.”
maybe stop being a corrupt piece of shit, John.
Lul check wants us not to complain when it is not balanced? Keep on Kangaroo Court.
Have you tried not being corrupt oligarchs?
Phwoah calm down with the corruptoligarchophobia there!
Remember that simple trick: if your speech would be derogatory if you replace ‘corrupt oligarch’ by any other minority, then you might want to report yourself to the nearest corrupt law enforcement authority and donate some of your time and money to your local oligarch (they need all the money).
Won’t someone think of the poor billionaires
No, it doesn’t. In fact, Roberts should consider himself lucky it isn’t much worse, considering that he and 5 of his collegues are nothing more than activist political hacks, completely undeserving of the job.
Eat shit Roberts, you’re one of the biggest enablers in all this
Hostility from the court towards anyone who’s not a rich white man needs to stop.
Clear favoritism towards Republicans in rulings needs to stop.
Justices taking bribes needs to stop.
Justices wives trying to overturn elections needs to stop.
The court making the president a king needs to stop.
Thomas and Alito being fucking pieces of shit needs to stop.
I can go on.
Can I suggest, humbly, then, that you guys start by throwing away your present constitution and start anew?
Yeah I’d love to but that’s not going to happen without suffering on a scale this country hasn’t seen since the Great Depression or a civil war.
Getting real sick of all the “Just overthrow the govt you lazy Americans! You’re not doing anything and that means you accept it.” takes on here.
Tell that to Minnesotans or Chicagoans or Los Angelinos.
“laziness” does not exist. It’s just a placeholder term used for when we don’t understand why people aren’t doing what we individually want them too.
There are a significant minority of protestors, like the groups you mention. It’s not laziness they are being accused of. It’s their inability to match the scale, intensity and severity of the response to meet the threat.
When one side has armed gestapo paramilitary and majority control of the levers of state power and media and the other side has signs, clowns and furries protesting, the world sees a losing strategy.
I’m afraid it has been farther way from that. Sincerely, I hope something happens and you guys just make a turn around.
Yeah apologies it’s just exhausting sometimes. We’re trying but it’s not at a critical mass yet. I worry too many people are waiting for him to die thinking that’ll fix everything when he’s a symptom and not the disease.
The guy peacefully pass in his sleep would be something. I dread the infighting that would follow for the “throne”.
If that infighting stops America attacking anyone else in the meantime, then by all means, have at it.
- the rest of the world
That is utterly depressing to read but something too welcome to happen.
The lack of a general strike is telling. Everyone everywhere faces hardship, but other places would have, long ago (like you should have under Regean long ago!)
Your billionaires know most of you are scabs and class traitors, they will not stop now.
Put up or shut up.
He’s violated his oath of office countless times. Doing so intentionally, once, should result in immediately disqualifying someone from holding any public office elected or appointed existing or future.
Hostility from judges needs to fucking start.
The judiciary has the power to deputize individuals to enforce its orders. It needs to fucking start.
Once again, I will mention that “originalism” and “textualism” were a fucking death knell for jurisprudence, which barely withstood Bush et al, to say nothing of a brazen bad actor like Trump. They are the dark side of legal reasoning: quicker easier, more seductive, but once you go down that dark path (with a ritually worshipped constitution that was a nice bit of kit for its time and place but is maddeningly vague and almost impossible to amend), forever will they dominate your destiny.
It’s impractical and deeply, inherently regressive to think that a few clever slaveholding provincials had everything figured out forever and ever (see also the almost impossible to amend part), and pretending that it’s workable without applying thought and context should be grounds to get someone disbarred.
“originalism” and “textualism” were a fucking death knell for jurisprudence
I might at least have the stomach for these philosophies if they promised some kind of judicial consistency or a tangible stare decisis. Instead, it’s pure Calvinball. The courts read the same statutes and precedents in polar opposite ways, purely based on the ideological shifts in conservative media.
It’s impractical and deeply, inherently regressive to think that a few clever slaveholding provincials had everything figured out forever and ever
Sure. But then you’ve got guys like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito taking bribes in the open from oligarchs intent on extorting the modern day working class. And you realize its not the latter day slaveholders who are calling the shots.
Resign then
Maybe we’ll consider it once the judiciary stops being hostile to the American people.
The biggest slide away from democracy into fascist dictatorship occurred as Justice Roberts and then Chief Justice presided. He is directly responsible for the low quality of life we are all enduring. He deserves all the hate that is sent his way.
That’s unfair.
Merrick Garland deserves some blame for not indicting Donald for insurrection.
John Roberts is a W appointee. He and Clarence Thomas are responsible for setting a lot of the presumption among the right that the SCOTUS could be captured. Their rulings were egregiously partisan.
More importantly, it is imperative that Chief Justice John Roberts’ heart stops.
“Heart”?
