Originally published at: John Roberts Thinks 2025 Was a Banner Year for the Constitution - 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. On New Year’s Eve, Chief Justice John Roberts published the 2025 year-end report on the federal judiciary. For nearly 50 years, these annual reports consisted of the chief justice’s reflections on the state of the judiciary, some data on…
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Chief Injustice John Roberts is
A. A political hack with a personal mission to make the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, 1968, and 1987 along with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its Amendments dead letters in American law.
B. A corrupt political hack devoted to manipulating the US electoral system to maintain single (GOP) party minority rule for the foreseeable future.
C. An idiot.
D. All of the above.
I only call balls and strikes, my ass.
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Roberts wraps by quoting President Calvin Coolidge, who in 1926 argued that despite “the clash of conflicting interests” and “partisan politics,” Americans could nonetheless “turn for solace and consolation to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States…
So, Justice Roberts thinks our founding documents are a binky?
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I really appreciate that John Roberts shared his thoughts.
Every time a conservative member communicates, to those that pay attention, it is a full on advertisement for reform of SCOTUS.
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What kind of person can hold their face in this shape? It is maniacal and more than a little indicative of zealotry. Condescending. Like they are disappointed in you but they’ll bear with it.
Resting fuck face.
ETA: Gorsuch too. Same strained visage.
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Can’t wait for how he is going to phrase and justify his coming decision on Birthright Citizens.
Section One begins “All Persons….”
And somehow he will try to say all does not mean all.
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I can’t wait to see how he defines a “person”, “citizen”, and “woman”.
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The sounds like a Constitution Cognitive test. I wonder how CF-DJT would do?
Never mind, we know he “aced” it.
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“John Roberts Thinks 2025 Was a Banner Year for the Constitution.”
With all due respect, John Roberts can eff straight off.
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And since at least the 70s, there’ve been empowered-by-money forces – like Leonard Leo and the gray unseen heavenly host that probably always hovers in conspiratorial silence behind him – using every means possible to surreptitiously load the court with ‘justices” who hold these sick, incredibly stupid views. And they got away with it, as most everybody was fooled by the “Shucks, I’m just an institutionalist” act performed by Roberts et al.
I sure hope that this little literary gem, piled upon the rest of the crap that the right wing of the court has been doing and saying over the past few decades – such as the swelling tsunami of shadow-docket shit that generally forgoes logic, reasoning and explication entirely – is finally convincing enough people that big-time reform and rethinking and exposing of their crap to open air and sunlight isn’t just warranted but a real necessity ASAP. Not convinced that’s a general view among politicians even now, though.
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It’s a photograph. Roberts didn’t need to “hold” the position for more than a fraction of a second.
And yes – judicial reform, by statute where possible and by Constitutional Amendment at worst – is most definitely called for. Not to mention making sure the whole Corrupt Court and Dumbroe Doctrine is a wakeup call for the Democratic Party.
Or some other party, to be determined. We can assume the Republicans are deader than the Whigs at this point.
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Every time I see that bastard’s self-satisfied smirk, I want to punch his teeth out.
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He is delusional and a liar.
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The winners tell jokes, the losers say “deal”.
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To be crystal clear … “all due” = zero!
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I think Roberts is mistaking the US Constitution for the Constitution of the Confederacy because it was a banner year for that one.
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His photo recalls the Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman. “What, me worry?”
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Fuck Roberts. He’s the Angel Hernandez of American Jurisprudence
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A “banner year?”
Oh, it was.
Here’s the banner.
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