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Idiot.
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trying to improve his image?
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He does not seem to be able to draw a parallel between his court and the partisanship on display in recent rulings. Another conservative that preaches, “do as I say not as I do”.
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More like a Mr. Magoo.
Or this guy:
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That’s not news. It’s the fact that he said all that stuff without vomiting, breaking down into hysterical laughter, breaking the fourth wall for a sly smirking aside to the audience like Richard the III, being struck by lightning, or just flat out dissolving away into an puddle of toxic goo due to the sheer corrosive power of the torrent of high-purity concentrated hypocrisy and mendacity that poured out of his mouth that’s news.
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Last year the ABA annual convention speakers were Eric Holder, who initiated his push to make drug sentences more humane, and Hillary Clinton, who started speaking about voting rights with her speech. Both spoke about expanding civil rights and ameliorating unequal treatment. They each laid out specific solutions.
Quite a contrast with John Roberts, who apparently sat back and said “who, me? I’m certainly not part of a problem that we can simply wring our hands over.”
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Has he been hangin’ with Boner? He has a decidedly orange hue in that pic.
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This man is a disgrace. Dick Bush appointed him Chief Justice even though he had no experience on the Supreme Court. He and his fellow RATS are trampling on the Constitution, destroying individual rights and handing over our country to corporate kleptocrats and religious bigots.
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Justice Roberts … you imbecile … let’s put the pieces together for you:
- You did this!
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We all know the Law treats both the rich and the poor equally …
But the rich especially equally
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FWIW, he was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which has long been considered a position that puts one in line for SCOTUS. It’s one of the reasons the GOP fought it’s long battle to keep Obama from making any appointments to it.
His credentials were impeccable. Hawvawd Law, Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review, law clerk to Justice Rehnquist (before Rehnquist’s elevation to Chief Justice), Attorney General’s office under Reagan and Bush II, Office of White House Counsel under Bush II, and then appointment to the D.C. Circuit. In private practice, he argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.
On paper, he was a shoo-in for the gig. It was the content of his decisions and writings that indicated quite clearly that he was going to be a rawly partisan right wing activist who would gut existing precedent under the guise of upholding and applying it that caused many senators, including one Senator Barack Obama, to vote “no” on his nomination despite his very impressive resume.
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When he was being confirmed did he keep a straight face when he said he’d never once had a thought about abortion?
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Pot, meet kettle. Roberts does not write with the same disdainful tone as Scalia or true-believer religious fervor of Alito, but his approach is political in the extreme. Case after case, his Court takes a little step, proclaiming a particular decision narrow, but then two or three years later another case comes up in the same area and the narrow decision becomes a blockbuster. Voting rights, gun ownership, campaign finance. Just watch what happens with Hobby Lobby when some other case on religious freedom comes up. He’s a good looking mild mannered Midwesterner playing a long game.
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Not only is Roberts a whining hypocrite, he also doesn’t really understand the concept of partisanship.
There’s nothing wrong with being partisan—unless you do it the way Roberts does, which is to say blindly, reflexively, and constantly.
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When Justice Ginsburg tells you that this guy and the other right-wing justices are out of touch with America and specifically what American women need to achieve equality at home and on the job, listen up.
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Corporate religious freedom is more important to him than loss of reproductive rights for women. He’s always come down on the side of corporations instead of furthering the rights of the working class, e.g. Ledbetter, and Hobby Lobby is the worst instance of that guiding philosophy.
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No mention in his speech of “calling balls and strikes?”
Perhaps his speech was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
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Just like when he said a judge’s sole job is to call balls and strikes. And yet, he couldn’t maintain the composure necessary not to screw up the oath of office when he swore in Obama.
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The problem with religious corporations is the way they bogart all the wine and host when they attend church.
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