Chief Justice John Roberts: With an unprecedented leak, Roberts appears suddenly ineffectual

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The chief justice of the United States is only as powerful as the individual who wears the title and his times.

At this moment in his Supreme Court stewardship, John Roberts appears suddenly ineffectual. Gone is the confident jurist whose views prevailed across the board and the man who was all-controlling of operations at the court building.

The disclosure by Politico of a first draft of an opinion in the most important abortion case in decades suggests that he has lost control on a significant portion of American law. Roberts apparently has not joined a resounding reversal of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, with the repercussions for privacy rights that would follow.

And the sheer release of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito reflects a failure to protect the court as an institution. Never before has a full draft opinion been publicly revealed. And in this situation, the magnitude of the contents has shaken the country as people on both sides face the possibility that women may no longer have a right to end a pregnancy in its early weeks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chief-justice-john-roberts-with-an-unprecedented-leak-roberts-appears-suddenly-ineffectual/ar-AAWYZ6t

The GOP hopes Chuggin' Pukin' Kavanaugh will be the next Chief Justice.

[cilla4progress]

1. Well-deserved

Pompous federalist ass.

Do you recall he even had to re-administer the oath to Pres. Obama the day after the inauguration?

Guess it was just too hard for him to choke out the correct oath to a Black President!

And of course brought us Citizens United - money = free speech, that has led to the outsourcing of the US government and elections!!

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained

Janu­ary 21, 2020 will mark a decade since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elec­tion Commis­sion, a contro­ver­sial decision that reversed century-old campaign finance restric­tions and enabled corpor­a­tions and other outside groups to spend unlim­ited funds on elec­tions.

[hlthe2b]

2. 'Long been reported that Alito harbored decades-long resentment for Roberts having been nominated

for the Chief Justice position while, he, Alito was nominated for an associate justice position, even though they both were nominated close to the same time. My guess is that he's used that resentment to try to sabotage Roberts at every juncture. Now, he has the opportunity to all but destroy him.

[cilla4progress]

3. Sounds right to me.

Egomaniacs.

Ego before country.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Could redeem himself by retiring now.

[emulatorloo]

6. Could redeem himself by getting the other conservatives to reject Alito's bullshit

Roberts doesn’t want to overturn Roe v Wade.

[Skittles]

10. THAT ain't gonna happen

the latest repuke hacks were installed to the court SPECIFICALLY to overturn Roe v Wade

[PlanetBev]

5. Never forgot what he said about his vote to guy voting rights

He said it wasn’t necessary anymore because the South had changed. The next day, Texas swung into action and started closing polling stations.

Idiot….

[malthaussen]

7. Nothin "sudden" about it, IMO.

I don't see many redeeming qualities in Roberts's tenure as Chief Justice.

-- Mal

[Rebl2]

8. Maybe

Biden should make Sotomayor or Kegan Chief Justice. I suppose Robert’s would have to step down though.

[SheilaAnn]

9. His handling of the Ginni/Clarence debacle is also disappointing, if there was any handling at all.

[lees1975]

11. That demands an investigation and is at least as serious as the leaked brief

and his failure to immediately act is another indication of his incompetence and inability to run a court that has been exposed for its opportunists and partisan hacks.

[Martin68]

12. Well, it's not unprecedented. But it does make Roberts look pretty useless.