Justice Roberts crybags to his peers at Colorado Springs conference that...

[Hotler]

the people are being mean and thinks the court is a joke. We can only judge by results of your actions.

I know Denver is the hub for a Court District but, Colorado Springs is home for Christian Dominionist nut jobs. Just saying.

John Roberts Decries Attacks on Supreme Court’s ‘Legitimacy’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-roberts-decries-attacks-on-supreme-court-s-legitimacy/ar-AA11FVz0?cvid=9a6ed8bf522446beb529b716b93a5d4f

[niyad]

1. Ughhhh. No wonder I had such a headache yesterday.

[apcalc]

2. Awwwww, poor baby.

[Marthe48]

3. U.S.S.C. stopped being legitimate

when they installed bush in 2000. They have increased the velocity down the slope to outright joke since then. Now it is a bunch of drunks, rapists and slef-serving despots imposing their personal preferences on the rest of us. Not a court, now a tribunal.

[Diamond_Dog]

14. My thoughts exactly.

They are offended that Americans think their court is a joke? Just look at who appointed the three extremists.

[Marthe48]

17. roberts, frat boy and baby maker all helped on bush v. gore

their reward was a seat on the big bench. Travesty of law. Reveals their amoral despotism.

[Diamond_Dog]

19. +100

[c-rational]

43. +2

[gab13by13]

4. Samuel Alito is the acting Chief Justice.

Roberts is not in control.

[oregonjen]

7. I believe Alito is not Chief Justice, Roberts is.

[Beakybird]

8. Gab13 is saying de facto

[calimary]

33. Technically he's not.

But Roberts looks more and more like a pushover. Flimsy and nearly neutered.

[plimsoll]

21. Or Thomas.

He feels he deserves top billing, and we know he can hold a grudge.

[Golden Raisin]

5. Worst Court and worst Chief Justice of my lifetime and

I'm in my 70's.

[calimary]

36. Yep. Wholeheartedly agreed.

Worst EVER.

And they’re all young enough to plague America for decades to come.

[ck4829]

6. "Sure we're biased for plutocrats, theocrats and plutocratic theocrats; but do the poors need to say

we're not legitimate?!"

[gratuitous]

9. Can't they just accept the second class citizenship status we created for them?

Why they gotta be so mean and disrespectful about it?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. I don't think the Extreme Court is a joke; the Subversive 6 make it a threat to the nation.

Women and girls are not 3rd class citizens, beneath fetuses and men, and no amount of twisting logic, law or the Constitution to fit an extremist, religious ideology can keep them there.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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[Marthe48]

20. It's a joke those 6 are seated

Not funny they are unelected despots imposing their personal views on the nation. I've seen fairer decisions made by grade school kids settling playground disputes.

[COL Mustard]

32. The Court needs to be expanded.

I've clearly said it before (it popped up in autofill), but it remains true. At least expand it so there's one Justice overseeing each Federal circuit.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

38. 15 is a nice number.

[Fozzledick]

42. 13 is appropriate and in line with early precedents.

One for each Federal district court.

[magicarpet]

11. Boo-hoo-hoo,...

Stop rendering Neo-Fascist Christian and politically partisan judicial decisions so extremely counter to the Will of the people's wishes. Then the general public will display more respect for the Supreme Court.

If you don't like being called a Nazi - here's a good idea - stop acting like one.

Boo-hoo,.. fuck you.

[Ocelot II]

12. If he's got a sad that people don't think his court is legitimate,

maybe he should kick a couple of junior justices' asses and remind them what their job is supposed to be.

[emulatorloo]

15. Agreed. He voted against overturning Roe v Wade. He doesn't agree w the what the junior justices

have done. So he should kick some ass.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Law is developing an air of irrelevance

Society due to information age is becoming rather fuzzy around the boundaries. Lots of professions have helper professionals. Does anyone obey the law after the age of Trump? Law is a slap on the wrist, a badge of honor when broken. Only fools obey everything. Fines are a pittance in an age of loose capital and low interest, a cost of doing business, never tied to ability to pay just flat fees like a ticket to the show.

Roberts has become an old windbag in part because he presided over an archaic judicial bureaucracy and had not the inclination or skills to modernize it, in my opinion.

[vlyons]

16. well boo hoo hoo

I have no respect for the dominionist Christo-Fascists on the court.

[Xavier Breath]

18. Not the main point of your post

but your Colorado Springs reference jogged my memory. We were on a trip some years ago to Colorado, visiting family in the Denver area, as we try to do every few years. We took a side trip to CS, as is the custom, to visit my mom's old stomping grounds. Checking into a hotel not far from the AF academy, I noticed they did not have the typical display of brochures of local attractions for the tourists. When I asked the desk clerk about that she apologized, but then said the only must-see attraction in the area was the damn Focus on the Family compound and that we just "had to go see it.". I bit my tongue and just smiled politely at her brainwashed self.

[RainCaster]

22. Everything you needed to know is in that Gideon Bible

Yeah...

[IbogaProject]

23. Most of the R SC judges put on by loosers

Weren't most of the GOP appointed Juctices appointed by popular vote loosers? If so that says so much.

[Scrivener7]

24. That's your legacy, Johnny. The guy who let the SC get brought down by a mentally ill man-baby.

Enjoy, you toady.

[AllaN01Bear]

25. well whah, what ever gave you that idear?

[PlanetBev]

26. Cry me a river

Where were you, Mr. Chief Justice, when two SC seats were stolen from the people?

Fuck you.

[Farmer-Rick]

27. He has made the Supremely Religious Court a political interest group

“If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the Constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle,” he said. “You don’t want the political branches telling you want the law is. And you don’t want public opinion to be the guide of what the appropriate decision is."

But he does let the political parties tell him what the Constitution says, along with priests and pastors.

The Supremely Religious Court has no right in the Constitution to interpret the Constitution for all of America. And yes you do want the legislature telling you what the law is. That's why law making is in the legislative branch and Not the judiciary. What's constitutional should be left up to the people and their elected representatives. We can read. We can decide what it says for ourselves.

The court should stick to interpreting legislation and using precident and the law to make rulings instead of using political conservatism and religion. They are making laws from the bench and picking presidents. Both of which are not in the powers as defined by the constitution.

This is what happens to the judiciary when a dictator or king takes over. They are merely political hatchet men and women. They willy nilly decide how to make life hell in the US.

[jaxexpat]

28. The US is a democratic republic. That is the most important fact of all other governmental facts.

We may win wars with our wasteful and overly expensive military machine but without the important fact, we are nothing. We de-facto govern around the world with impunity but when the other nations come to see us as something other than a democratic republic, we are reduced to a target of ridicule by those seeking justice. We may frustrate our best intentions with partisan gamesmanship and entertain ourselves with mass delusion but so long as there is an election day in the future, a legitimate hope survives. When elitists attempt to wall the will of the voters they fail in every eventuality.

If all that is true, then what the hell is the USSC doing dismissing and mistaking the all-important common will of the people at so many junctures? Why do they have that power?

The judiciary should NEVER rule against the will of the majority. To do so is the definition of elitism. They shouldn't be considered an equal branch of government unless they're selected by majority vote. Rack up another big miss by the founding fathers.

[bronxiteforever]

29. Legitimacy is earned. The Supreme joke lost it

and once legitimacy is lost, it will be difficult to regain.

[tishaLA]

30. Did John Robert say the same when repubs bitched about rulings?

He and the rest of the repub activists on the court formerly known as Supreme can STFU and await the backlash

[czarjak]

31. W was illegitimately installed in 2000. Period. Thusly...

[vanlassie]

34. I read some Right to Life supporters bragged about hanging out at the SC

during oral arguments with their favorite justices. Lunching together. Does Roberts think that is appropriate?

[nuxvomica]

35. I wonder why the court's legitimacy is in question

Maybe it's...

1. A sitting president was denied filling a vacancy.
2. While a twice-impeached president appointed three.
3. And one of those appointments involved a deal for an early retirement with a justice whose son was the twice-impeached president's banker.
4. While another succeeded after the FBI failed to investigate charges of sexual assault
5. And these appointees voted to overturn 50-year precedent with a majority opinion that gutted the right to privacy implicit in the Constitution
6. And ignored a 13th-Amendment ban on involuntary servitude
7. And invoked pre-Enlightenment opinions by a prosecutor of witches.

There must be other reasons as clearly these obvious reasons that so easily come to mind must be insufficient for questioning the court's legitimacy. Right?

[Midnight Writer]

39. And one Justice who's wife has been paid millions by conservative billionaire activists.

And a Justice who said his goal is to make liberals miserable.

That's not Justice. That is abuse of power.

[world wide wally]

37. I'm just wondering if the current SC makeup is consulted about new nominees

If they are, you have no one to blame but yourself, John

[MiHale]

40. This court couldn't even figure out...

The impact killing Roe would do. Absolutely no critical thinking skills on display. Linked to some prestigious old universities how is it they didn’t follow their thoughts to the logical conclusion?
Are they so blind to the everyday citizen’s life they didn’t expect blowback?

There are times I think to myself that they want the Democrats to take charge of the country.
If they can’t figure out reaction to a fervently desired right and then leave themselves set up for citizens to think about what’s next…Social Security? Medicare?

Go ahead and cry your eyes out.

[nowforever]

41. I'm Sorry

We didn't disguise our demented agenda better...it's just we got so excited when the abortion case arrived. Don't worry we will be able to enact the rest of our sick fantasies with more restrained glee. Oh, boy if you only knew what we have waiting...its going to be so much fun. Your Chiefy Johnny

[barbtries]

44. you sold it away.

boo fucking hoo for you.

no respect left for this court. he's why.

[LymphocyteLover]

45. did someone hold a gun to his head to make him make such terrible votes on rulings?

If not, he can STFU.

[SWBTATTReg]

46. He's right. You and the other scumbags on the Court (there are 3 exceptions of course, I'm

not referring to them) have destroyed the reputation of one of the few institutions in this Country that still had a reputation, all for singular, partisan reasons.

At least one good thing happened. You kickstarted the Country into passing all sorts of new legislation to prevent the further abuses of this current Supreme Court. You woke up the Sleeping Giant that consists of the majority of most Americans and we're mad, we're angry, and disturbed that you're trying to throw us back into the 1950s and worse. All because of your disgusting rulings.

I hope all of you rot.

[Xoan]

47. It's was a disservice that his sophomore judge ...

was made Chief Justice of SCOTUS.

[trof]

48. Did they ever clean up the Air Force academy?

It had become a haven for the evangelists.

[DonCoquixote]

49. asre you really sorry Roberts?

THEN RESIGN while Biden is in office.

let him put a replacement who can at least help undo the damage you helped do.