Originally published at: John Roberts Is Always a Republican First - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Over the weekend, The New York Times published a flurry of internal Supreme Court memos related to its unsigned, unexplained February 2016 order that blocked the Clean Power Plan, an Environmental Protection Agency rule that required states to implement plans…
Unless Democrats wake up the next time they control the White House and Congress, the Supreme MAGA Court will ensure nothing is done to control corruption. They will act as a super legislature, effectively neutering Democratic legislation.
How do they wake up? Simple, if they have the sense to eliminate the filibuster, expand the Supreme Court, and impose an iron clad ethics rule.
The days of weak kneed timidity has to end. No more Merrick Garlands, Chuck Schumers, or Joe Bidens.
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I keep tellin’ ya, ya gotta read Without Precedent by Lisa Graves. She lays out in detail the decades-long career of this ideological zealot; he is relentless and single-minded, and he simply lies when he needs to, all the while smiling and earnestly proclaiming his devotion to calling balls and strikes. He’s an evil snake.
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I greatly appreciate that this article identifies not only Roberts’ consistent lying about how he respects precedent and considers cases as a politically neutral jurist, but also his unbelievable arrogance. I see him as the ultimate partisan defender not only of Republican policy positions and Republican presidents, but of white supremacy. Only a white supremacist could argue that racism is no longer an issue in this country. He knows full well that this contention is untrue, but he doesn’t care. His rulings collectively indicate that he believes power and political rights belong in the hands of arrogant white men like himself, especially if they are already rich and powerful.
Fully agree with demosthenes59 that Dems must eliminate the filibuster, expand the Supreme Court, and impose a mandatory ethics rule on the Supremes.
FDR’s New Deal had the same problem with a conservative Supreme Court.
The Founding Fathers warned of the Catholic Church follower’s divided loyalty to the Pope, a foreign Sovereign, and the American Republic. Jesus warned of the difficulty of serving two masters. Maybe this is overthinking and Roberts just thinks Trump is always right and a fine example of Christianity.
Oh, I’m pretty sure that Robert’s and the Supreme Court in general is not going to side with Trump in everything. Otherwise they become irrelevant.