Let's Not Forget About Chief Justice Roberts

[gab13by13]

All of the illegal, unconstitutional shit that Krasnov is doing could not be done were it not for the John Roberts court.

The most powerful "man" on the planet was granted immunity.

To go along with his immunity he can tell people like Kegsbreath to commit illegal acts and Krasnov will simply pardon them.

This Supreme Court is still making partisan decision after partisan decision. The very first terrible decision it made for its latest session was to allow racist gerrymandering in Texas, just to keep dear leader in power.

I remember several years ago when I was conned into believing that Roberts cared about his legacy, boy was I wrong about that one.

Chief Justice John Roberts should be given credit for the destruction of our democracy. The only questions that I have now are, was he bribed, was he threatened, was he a Magat all along?

[Ninga]

1. Full circle. Starts with Robert's ends with Robert's. The Supreme's will not be a footnote in history, they will be an

Entire book, starting in 2000 Bush v Gore.

[mdbl]

11. Bush v Gore was the start of their slide into fascism

Especially when Sandra Day O'Connor signed off on stopping the vote count in Floriduh without signing it. She was the swing vote and she knew it would make her look bad but she did it anyway. I wonder if she was paid off? Her legacy, or lack of it will be forever tainted.

[Mister Ed]

22. I recall seeing her quoted in an interview as saying that she did it because she wanted to retire.

She said she felt regret for that decision, but that she had done it because she wanted to retire, and she wanted a Republican and not a Democrat to nominate her successor.

So, that was her payoff. The law be damned, the facts be damned, the Constitution be damned. She wanted to play a part in the ongoing court packing that has since continued, and has resulted in the absolute downfall of the Court.

[mdbl]

25. Thank you for reinforcing my negative opinion of her.

That's the nicest way I can describe her in public.

[popsdenver]

2. Before the 3 justice shift in the Supreme Court

Came the ENTIRE Republican Senate, & Republican House..............as well as Republican State Governors.....

Everyone always says TRUMP this and TRUMP that.......we have to quit doing that and blame the REPUBLICAN PARTY.
THEY are the ones that installed Trump in 2016 & 2024, and have voted, in lock step, every single day, of every year.....

Blaming the REPUBLICAN PARTY, instead of just Trump, will help with down ballot voting in the future elections.

[returnee]

19. McConnell, Trump, ...

…and every Senator (R or D) who voted for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney are responsible.

[popsdenver]

20. Do you know about

Gorsuch's family and in particular his mother???????????? It might be in Wiki about his dear old mother's corrupt time as head of EPA or Dept of Interior????? Talk about super corrupt.....she would have had a position on Trump's Cabinet for sure......

On edit: here you go......

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/01/neil-gorsuchs-mother-once-ran-the-epa-it-was-a-disaster/

After a couple of years of throwing the EPA and Dept of Interior under the bus, and also making many PRO Oil and Gas decisions in those Corporations favor, she was within days of being indicted, possibly for grifting of money for those decisions, and most of her rulings?......
She immediately resigned and never got charged......(Of course it was during the Reagan years) or the HWBush years as I like to call them..........

The Gorsuch's were a major player in the Mountain Town of Vail and many businesses in that town, which were worth a bundle......

[Fil1957]

3. And Roberts history of destroying democracy goes waay back, even before his stint on the Supreme Court. He participated

in the Brooks Brothers riots to stop the counting of votes back in 2000.

John Roberts, fighting democracy for 25 years.

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. Truer words were never stated.

[SergeStorms]

5. Let's not forget about.......

Mitch McConnell, whose interference in postponing or fast-tracking SC nominees (depending upon who was president at the time) made it entirely possible for the far-right to stack the court in their favor for life!

Ol' Mitch deserves a lot of urine on his grave as well. 😡

[hay rick]

6. Bribery can be praise and promotion.

If we survive Trump we can not afford to go back to the previous status quo. It allowed us to be overtaken by the current corruption. We need to move on to the next thing. Bulldozing the Roberts Court and its anti-democratic, pro-oligarchy legacy needs to be in the forefront of any credible path forward.

[flashman13]

7. He was a clerk for and disciple of William H. Rehnquist. That's all you need to know.

in 1952 Rehnquist penned this on the subject of school desegregation:

To the argument that a majority may not deprive a minority of its constitutional right, the answer must be made that while this is sound in theory, in the long run it is the majority who will determine what the constitutional rights of the minority are [...] I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian (sic) position, for which I have been excoriated by "liberal" colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson (doctrine of separate but equal) was right and should be reaffirmed.

Under the black robe you can be sure Roberts believes in these very things.

[GiqueCee]

10. I have long believed...

... that ALL jurists should be legally required to foreswear ANY political allegiance whatsoever, and that NO politician should have ANY say in judicial appointments. It never fails that the mixture of politics and the judiciary makes a rank stew of corruption.
Judges and justices should be selected by a panel of exemplary jurists of sterling reputation, and candidates should likewise be of unassailable character.
The level of corruption that currently pollutes and poisons the three branches of government virtually assures the collapse of representative governance in America. But it doesn't have to be that way. A judicial branch that is above reproach in the eyes of the public must be established first, so that the other two will be forced to follow. The present state of affairs is unsustainable, and we must be ready to do whatever it takes to save the Great American Experiment from the bloody talons of pathologically selfish conservatism.
The Devil is in the details, and filtering out those with malign intentions is gonna be a challenge, but it'll be worth it.

[flashman13]

18. Judges are elected in my red state. They are considered to be non party affiliated. Oddly enough of the three

branches of state government, they are the only ones that are non partisan. They actually make decisions based on the merits of the case. Very often they nullify Repug legislation. Of course the Repug legislature hates that and have been trying to screw with the court for the last several sessions to no avail. In 2024, although widely opposed by the Rs, the incumbents were all reelected.

I think to some extend people in general are better educated here than in most red states. I don't think this would be the case in most of the MAGAt states.

[DFW]

8. Roberts, I think, was a clever Magat all along

He and Alito were installed relatively near in time to each other, in my opinion, as Citizens United insurance at Cheney’s insistence. The informal grilling in the Oval Office was obviously not carried out with W leading the conversation.
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Roberts has been doing some savvy manipulation at strategic times to make himself seem like a truly conservative deeply intellectual independent thinker. Gay marriage, don’t forget. But when it comes to voting rights, medical care, civil rights, gerrymandering, women’s rights, Roberts has proved time again that he believes that “rights” are wrong.

[Nasruddin]

9. About the supreme court

This is a bad institution, based on ... probably compromise or mistakes in writing the constitution, and scope creep that it has managed to do on its own. It should be closed as part of a complete overhaul of how we manage the judiciary in the US.
We need something else. I feel we all could agree on this - sometimes it rules in ways we like, but they are just as crazy and arbitrary at times as the rulings we don't like.
The German model is interesting but also has had some problems, so we are unlikely to find a perfect model or solution.

[drray23]

27. Or the french system where judges are not elected.

A professional body of jurists recommends judges for appointment, and then they are confirmed by the president. All the jurists have to have rigorous training through a school, which you can get enrolled in via a competitive process. The judiciary is completely decoupled from the executive branch and insulated from political influences. It is made up of career professionals, not political appointees.

[Texin]

12. "... was he bribed, was he threatened, was he a Magat all along?"

He was on a list of Heritage Foundation and Leonard Leo-approved judges compiled for Bush the Lesser (Shrub) during his presidencies. Leo was trying to pick judges that would be amenable to overturning the Roe decision, and the Heritage Foundation had been vetting the very most conservative judges to be appointed by a president for the courts since the mid-80s. Many of the rethug SCOTUS picks are/were Roman Catholic. I'm not sure about Roberts, but the majority of them are Catholic.

[aggiesal]

14. CJ Roberts is a practicing Catholic ...

Here are the Catholics on the Supreme Court.
John Roberts
Clarence Thomas
Samuel Alito
Brett Kavanaugh
Amy Coney Barrett
Sonia Sotomayor

Neil Gorsuch - Raised Catholic, now identifies as Episcopalian

Katanji Jackson - Protestant
Elena Kagan - Jewish

[aggiesal]

13. Don't forget his buddy Mitch McTurtle. He has his hand muddied along with the Supreme Court 6-pack n/t

[txwhitedove]

15. #1, let's stop calling Rump the most powerful. No more, he's muddied office of US President.

[moondust]

16. "How to Build a Despot"

by John Roberts.

Coming soon to a Heritage Foundation seminar near you.

[SidneyR]

17. We need a nonpartisan nomination procedure for the Supreme Court.

Some other countries, notably Canada and the UK, use the national professional association to nominate court judges. In this country, that would be the American Bar Association. They would pick several candidates who are professionally qualified for a vote in the Senate.

[KS Toronado]

21. Is Roberts on the Epstein list?

And was he threatened with "go along with what I want or else" scenario

[Texin]

28. Nah. Roberts is too much of a prude, but I'd bet my last nickel that Kavanaugh could be and Thomas as well.

Thomas was almost not confirmed because of Anita Hills's allegations against him.

[Mister Ed]

23. In a way, he has kept his confirmation-hearing promise to just call balls and strikes.

His court calls almost every pitch to the wealthy, to the corrupt, to the right wing a ball, and calls almost every pitch to everyone else a strike.

[Kid Berwyn]

24. Mrs. Roberts: "They come to me."

'They come to me': Jane Roberts’ legal recruiting work involved officials whose agencies had cases before the Supreme Court

In newly revealed testimony, Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts said she worked for “U.S. attorneys, cabinet officials, former senators” and more.

By HAILEY FUCHS and JOSH GERSTEIN
Politico, 01/31/2023

EXCERPT...

Jane Roberts’ placements included at least one firm with a prominent Supreme Court practice, according to the complaint, which also includes sworn testimony from Roberts herself, in which she notes the powerful officials — whose agencies have had frequent cases before her husband — for whom she has worked.

“A significant portion of my practice on the partner side is with senior government lawyers, ranging from U.S. attorneys, cabinet officials, former senators, chairmen of federal commissions, general counsel of federal commissions, and then senior political appointees within the ranks of various agencies, and I -- they come to me looking to transition to the private sector,” Roberts said, according to a transcript of a 2015 arbitration hearing related to her former colleague’s termination.

In her testimony, Roberts also noted the benefit of working with senior government officials: “Successful people have successful friends.”

Continues…

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/jane-roberts-legal-recruiting-work-agencies-cases-supreme-court-00080515



"They come to me." -- Mrs. Jane Roberts, wife of Chief Justice John Roberts

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26. Amazing that 26 of the 27 Amendments can be reinterpreted or discarded at their whim...

But Number 2 is holier than any religious piece of fiction.

[jfz9580m]

29. He really took his time too

That’s what I am gearing up for. The kind of patience that fundamentalists had. That drive that brooks disappointment and the willingness to delay instant gratification and weather disappointments in a society where your views were getting fringe.

Most of what used to at least be considered mainstream by reasonable people (e.g. publicly funded civilian science, abortion rights, basic environmental protections, the public sector) is becoming fringe .

And we always needed that for issues like animal rights or better environmental and labor protections as is on the farther left.

Roberts was patient:

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/15/john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america/

I think we need that on the left - both a fast strategy and this kind of patience/not getting discouraged.

It is not tied to democratic politics directly. I am not American and not being the left version of those fake Magats on Twitter, I can’t and wouldn’t interfere with American politics from another country. But I have an easy task to help the US. Specifically American science and medicine.

Which is attack my former employer-a noxious school in the pocket of tech giants. It is definitely one of the sources of this undemocratic purge.

I have to figure out the specifics-by attack I mean file the most meaningful complaints I can while skirting the actual scientists there (they are lame and pathetic for being passive in the face of all this, but not the source of the real issues. The technofascists are).