In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday defended the Supreme Court from what he believes are misconceptions held by the American people that he and his colleagues are “political actors” who are making decisions based on policy, not law.

Roberts is a member of the court’s 6-3 conservative majority, which has moved federal law to the right on a number of weighty issues in recent years, such as abortion and gun rights.

The court has also in several cases weakened the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, including in a ruling last week that led to outrage and disappointment on the left.

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[–] 159 points 3 months ago*

Homeboy has been incrementally gutting the voting rights act as part of the Republican agenda for 40+ years.

https://theprogressivemedia.substack.com/p/john-roberts-spent-44-years-killing

Fuck this partisan sack garbler:

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  • [–] 129 points 3 months ago

    Oh fuck all the way off you political hack. You’re playing for a very specific team, and that team is not us.

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  • [–] 119 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Bro knows he's facing a political shit storm with whatever the results of the midterms are.

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    [–] 82 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Given everything they have done, why pretend anymore? I honestly don't know who they are trying to impress. They know they are succeeding at eroding democracy. Congrats. You're on the team now. So wear your T-shirt.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Roberts is fascinating, he really truly believes he can escape with an intact legacy while simultaneously overseeing the final destruction of the functional democracy that was the US. It kind of speaks to the mentality deep down, they don't really understand the finality and monumentality of their actions, and where it's going to lead us. But his legacy is secure: one of the most destructive men who was ever a part of our Republic.

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  • [+] 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Let's also remember the deciding vote on handing the 2000 election to the devil, which lost, was the now lionized Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Notorious indeed. You can draw a straight line from their successful steal of 2000 to 2020 and now.

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    The Republican justices thought December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas's gerrymandering that favored white poeple/Republicans, but somehow last week wasn't too close to the election to shoot down Louisiana's changes that boosted minorities. That's pretty clearly policy at work, not the law.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Undoing decades of settled law to strip rights from women, minorities, and everyone else. You're damn right we view you as political. You're a disgrace to the law and should be impeached yesterday.

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    [–] 41 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No one is accusing them of being political actors. That's not how the court system works. The fact that he claims that is an effort to play everyone for fools.

    They are however partisan hacks.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago

    They are however partisan hacks.

    It's worse than that, they're actively corrupt. Robert's or Alito's Judicial philosophy is as irrelevant as Thomas' racial identity; they believe in getting paid.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How fucking patronising.

    The most political Supreme Court justice is trying to claim he's not? He can pound his shadow docket up his ass sideways.

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    [–] 38 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    His name will forever represent the most corrupt SCOTUS in history, and he's trying to mitigate that despicable legacy.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    I used to think that we had to add another 4 seats to the SCOTUS, but I no longer believe that. Now I think we need to add 20 seats to the Supreme Court.

    We have allowed SCOTUS to remain so small so that one bad-faith president can negatively alter the course of the nation for half a century. We should increase it to 29 or 31, with rolling term limits, so every president gets to appoint a handful, but never enough to throw off the balance to any great degree.

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    [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    Just a reminder that between his Ivy League connections, his Reagan/Bush services, and Chief Justice Rehnquist's untimely demise, Mr. Non-Political-Actor here went from mere well-placed attorney to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in less than five years, mostly by way of his work on Bush v. Gore in 2000.

    Not a political actor, lol.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago

    Roberts belief that he can salvage the courts reputation is deeply pathetic. He wiped his ass with the law and made the supremes courts corruption even more brazen.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    Spare us your denial asshole. We are knee deep in the bullshit you have created already.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    Is it true?

    Could I really have lost touch with the tenets of this office?

    No. it's the citizens who are wrong.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    Can someone please remind me who sold out the country to corporate interests and allowed super PACs to exist? Oh yeah, thank Chief Justice Roberts. Go fuck yourself.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    Awww, did some nasty journalist say that you volunteer to wear a leash for Trump daily? Diddums. You used to think you were cleverly manipulating the constitution behind the scenes for your own political ends and were being subtle about it, but now everyone says you're his bitch and you know full well he's a moron who shouldn't be in charge of you, so you lost any self respect you ever had because you realised Trump has no less contempt for you than he has for any temporarily useful stupid idiot who swallowed his lies and was used by him to cement power and stroke his own ego.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    I wonder if he genuinely thinks this. Surely he'd have to if he bothered to say so. I can't imagine a cynical political actor would waste his energy explaining himself to a public that he isn't accountable to. Thomas and Alito for instance don't really say jack shit, because they don't care what you think.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    Roberts, in a hot-dog costume, trying to figure out who did this

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    We know Roberts isnt playing politics. He thinks he's a priest-king who can dictate his own beliefs as inarguable decree.

    It would be one thing if he followed the history of the court and was bound by precedent, but letting six functionaries who were specifically asked about abortion and made unambiguous promises to respect it overturn the recognized right of bodily autonomy has made every right Americans enjoy subject to judicial nullification

    The only sane thing is to specifically take away judicial supremacy, and restore the unelected academics to a subordinate role deferential to the actually elected branches of our government. Sure, wed essentially give up any hope of free speech or marriage rights or religious liberty being out of the each of Congress, but better a Congress who can be voted out than judges who arent protecting those rights anyway.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I often wonder if they believe this themselves, or if they just cynically say crap like this out of contempt for people.

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    [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    It's true that they're not political actors. They're political whores. And they're not even high-priced whores.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    If they were making judgements based on laws and logic then they would regularly have unanimous decisions.

    The fact that for each case that comes before them, it's almost always a split decision down predictable conservative/liberal lines means that Roberts is full of shit.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    Being the leader of the highest tier of the government's judiciary branch makes everything you do or say political, Johnny-Boy.

    Is anyone else getting mighty tired of that "I don't do politics" shtick in general? I know I am. Even more so in a time where literal nazis are using it to cover up their ideological praxis.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    Gosh, of only there was a way to dispel this supposed "wrong" view...

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    misconceptions held by the American people that he and his colleagues are “political actors” who are making decisions based on policy, not law.

    Maybe if they stopped acting like they were making decisions based in political ideology instead of law, the American people might have those opinions...

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    [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    If it walks, talks and looks like a political shill...

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    If not political, why political shaped?

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    SCOTUS told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

    It was its final, most essential command.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Put your money where your mouth is.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, then give us back voting rights, abortion, and presidential accountability

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Traitor says what?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Fucking liar, Roberts is.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If you don't want to be seen as political actors, don't act like political actors.

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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    So stop acting politically, John.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Corrupt Gaslighting fuck says what?

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