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.
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
Lul check wants us not to complain when it is not balanced? Keep on Kangaroo Court.
Eat shit Roberts, you’re one of the biggest enablers in all this
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.
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 to.
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.
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.
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. Change the locks on their office doors, stop their pay checks, and revoke their physical\digital access.
Resign then
More importantly, it is imperative that Chief Justice John Roberts’ heart stops.
“Heart”?
I think it was doonesbury, or maybe bloom county, but the media is fascinated about this surgical operation where they’re going to transplant a liberal heart into a conservative body. The doctor says something about how they had trouble finding a liberal heart that wasn’t bleeding, but that they had a harder time finding a conservative with a heart.
When Roberts retires, who is in line to replace him as chief justice?
Probably kid rock or Joe Rogan.
Anyone can be nominated, so it depends entirely on who is President at the time.
Roberts himself was (briefly) a nominee for associate justice when William Rehnquist died, but Bush pulled that nomination and put his name in for chief instead. So it doesn’t even have to be a current Supreme Court Justice who replaces him.
Anyone can be nominated,
Coney Barrett, she trialed one case. So we can expect Pam Blondi.
Chief Justice has been considered a separate slot for nomination purposes as of the late 19th century, so when he retires or croaks, the job will come open. Sometimes the then-president nominates one of the existing justices and backfills, but it’s completely possible, as @radix@lemmy.world says, to directly nominate the new person for chief justice; it’s actually pretty common to do so.
In this timeline? Trump.
Hostility from judges needs to fucking start.
The judiciary has the power to deputize individuals to enforce its orders. It needs to fucking start.
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.
Maybe we’ll consider it once the judiciary stops being hostile to the American people.
