Posted on 02/04/2016 7:51:24 AM PST by bkopto
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said late Wednesday that partisan extremism is damaging the public's perception of the role of the Supreme Court, recasting the justices as players in the political process rather than its referees.
Divisive battles over confirmations and mischaracterization of the merits of the court's decisions worry him, Roberts told a ballroom crowd of about 1,000 people at a celebration of Law Day for the New England School of Law.
Criticism of the court "doesn't bother me at all," Roberts said, so long as is it not based on a misunderstanding of how the court differs from the political branches.
SNIP
"If you think about it: pick nine random people out of the room and throw them together and say, 'Okay, you'll work together for the next 25 years on some of the most important and divisive issues the country faces,' " Roberts said. "You do come to appreciate the good faith of the people with whom you work."
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Roberts may want to educate us about what he thinks the role of court should be. But liberals DO think of the court as a super legislature. This is so clearly seen in the decision on homosexual marriage. The liberals decided to force that issue through the courts, and achieve a new law which they could not get through the legislative process. The same thing happened with abortion decades ago. I’m sure there are other cases too.
Liberals perceive the courts as being there to right the perceived wrongs of society and overcome what they perceive as shortcomings in the legislative process.
It will be a Herculean task to remove all these subversives and traitors from the federal gubbermint.
This is why conservatives lose. Robert is all concerned about process and perception so he utterly fails with ObamaCare while the Left, including the four Leftists on the SCOTUS, have no problem using the court to jam their agenda down our throats. Hard to be a referee when there are no rules just a will to power.
What makes this especially dishonest is that he justified his first Obamacare decision by saying the personal mandate was a defacto tax and that he wasn't going to rewrite a badly written law to make it workable - that was the job of the Congress. But in his second decision he did exactly that - he rewrote the badly written law to make it workable.
The judges ARE political.
What planet have you been living on, John Roberts?
The appointments are political, the rulings are political, and YOUR OWN opinions have actually, effectively rewritten law to serve politicians.
The scotus is disrespected because it DESERVES to be disrespected. And quit calling them ‘justices’. They don’t give a rip about justice. I’m not even sure they are ‘judges’. They are merely ‘decision making powerbrokers.’
yup; like, No Shit, there Johnnny!
I didn’t have a hellova lotta respect for the black robed oligarchy before you turned your coat inside out, now I have NONE.
I would sat the Supremes are doing that all on their own, thank you very much. With Roberts leading the pack followed by Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Beyer, and too often Kennedy.
“divisive issues”?? Not that I expect any ivy league/lawyer (but I repeat myself) to comprehend simple English; the only reason there are ‘divisive issues’ is because the Courts do everything BUT their job.
I’d love to see ‘em flow-chart some of their rulings:
Step 1 - Tax? Yes
Step 2 - A1S8? No
STOP
Prob. as ‘easy to follow’ as the one put out for O’Care, but more twisted than a pretzel.
The Supreme Court that ‘created’ out of thin air a right to faggot-marriage? Traitors and degenerates.
The whole institution forfeited any shred of legitimacy it ever once had. Were I ever to set foot again in DC, I’d spit on its very steps.
With Roe, and ACA and Kelo as the the legs of modern “create the law we wanted” view of the supreme court I can see why many see it just as a super-legislature, to often it seems the justices agree that is what it should be.
Want to make it better ?
ANY time a justice cites foreign law .. SLAP them down.
ANY time a justice says but the Constitution should be able to fit the times .. Refer them to the Amendment process.
Mr. niteowl77
Under Ogabe the Executive branch has become despotic and because the Uniparty is submitting to the executive tyranny, they too have become an enemy of the people.
The entire federal gubbermint is in a STATE OF WAR against the American people.
All the judges need to be replaced with a computer which can read and interpret the constitution.
“There is no compromise in working with destructive tyrants like Ginsberg, Sotomayor, Kagan, or Breyer. These constitution-hating leftists have no good faith.”
And we need to remind ourselves that the GOPe voted to confirm them.
Well John, when you re-write laws and change definitions of common English words you stop being a referee!
No, you do that all by yourselves.
Roberts, you have been pretty damaging yourself.
If the SC is the best that the legal profession has, then the law profession is much much worse than we could ever have imagined.
What a joke.
However, Revolution II will perhaps take care of things.
First, we kill the lawyers......
Mr. Roberts, what in the hell was your ruling on Obama Care if not a player? The same can be said for courts before you in rulings such as Roe v Wade and your courts decisions on Defense of Marriage Act. Mr. Roberts, the Supreme Court has taken on the appearance of being part of the political process because it is. Your court is no longer an honest arbitrator of the law but has become a law unto itself with hard leftist radicals such as Kagan, Ginsberg, Sotomayor legislating from the bench.
Mr. Roberts your court is a foe of The Constitution and not its protector with the exception of Alito, Scalia, Thomas and occasionally you. Mr. Roberts you are either a fool or a charlatan. I do not think you are a fool.
If they would spend their talent interpreting the Constitution instead of rewriting it we’d have a lot more respect for the institution.
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