Trump: Roberts 'Disgraceful' on High Court; Thomas Is Favorite

Newsmax ^ | December 12, 2013

[Hojczyk]

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is "disgraceful" and a "disappointment" to conservatives, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday, while praising Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is his favorite member of the high court.

"Justice Roberts really let us down. What he did with Obamacare was disgraceful, and I think he did that because he wanted to be popular inside the Beltway," Trump told about 4,000 supporters. The celebrity billionaire was referring to the chief justice twice voting to uphold key provisions of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law and to the expressway around the District of Columbia, an area regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics.

Thomas, arguably one of the court's most conservative members, is "very strong and consistent," Trump said.

The GOP front-runner offered his assessment during an hourlong question-and-answer-session with Attorney General Alan Wilson. The South Carolina Republican is hosting a series of forums in this early voting state to query GOP hopefuls about their theories on constitutional law and the role of the federal government.

Prompted by Wilson, Trump also blasted government regulations. He focused his ire on water regulations that he says flood the market with bad faucets, toilets and shower heads.

"There's no water pressure," he complained. "The problem is you stand under the shower five times as long wasting more water than if you used the other one. So people are flushing seven, eight, 10 times. The end result is that it's no good and you end up wasting more water.

"I could name hundreds like that," Trump concluded about the regulations.

[MichelleWSC3]

Ok my last post on Free Repulican

[jonrd463]

Total agreement there. Also, my kingdom for the nice warm glow of a 75 watt incandescent light bulb.

[Lazamataz]

Don’t go. We need you here. We love you.

[nikos1121]

Ethanol is the only thing that he’s been in favor of that makes no sense, but then again do we know all about this? Are they making Ethanol from corn cobs and not eatable foodstuffs? If so, I might be fine with that. I heard that the gov’t subsidizes ethanol, then I hear that it doesn’t. Is Ethanol good for cars/ DOes it raise the price of gas or lower it? Is it good or bad for our economy over all?

[Abby4116]

Valuable insight into who Trump would nominate to the SCOTUS.

Months ago (and I am not going to try to find the quote) Trump said he would select an Alito, not a Roberts for the court.

I believe Jeb was instrumental in GWB selecting Roberts (for what it is worth.)

[mylife]

And the need to be taken down a peg.
Yes they do
They need to be accountable.

[Libloather]

Wow. And from a Cruz supporter? I’m shocked!

[Vaquero]

Roberts has a past and zer0 and the left have the details. Impeach him

[Unmarked Package]

Only relevant tangentially to the topic, but interesting:

Clarence Thomas' Wife Makes a Video Endorsing Ted Cruz

Ginni Thomas: I Am Proudly Endorsing Ted Cruz for President in 2016

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[Georgia Girl 2]

Well he’s right about Roberts who is a disgrace but I think it was blackmail.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Some scientist has come up with a way to make butanol (sp?) out of corn. Much better than ethanol. Was a thread here a couple days ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3368353/posts

[onyx]

GO, TRUMP GO!

[trisham]

Love it!

[silverleaf]

Well, Abe Lincoln didn’t think too highly of Roger Taney!

[demshateGod]

What about his sister?

[ironman]

Roberts really turned himself into a pretzel to come up with that first Obamacare ruling. I believe Thomas is from Georgia that will play well in South Carolina.

[Axeslinger]

Yeah, he also said his partial birth abortion supporting sister would be “a fabulous Supreme Court justice”

[AndyJackson]

Ted is no policy wonk. He is the real deal

Look you Cruzites need to lighten up. I happen to admire Cruz a lot, and if I thought that the biggest issue in the country right now was formulating policy I would pick him. But it isn't. The biggest issue is that there is no one running the executive agencies who is competent to do anything. With all due respect to Cruz, his background is all policy and legal advocacy.

That is not DOING stuff. It's not making railroads run, airplanes fly, assembly lines assemble, computers compute or police patrol to maintain the public safety.

It simply isn't.

[oldvirginian]

Ethanol?

The only things I need to know about it are that it takes a gallon of diesel fuel to produce a gallon of ethanol.

Ethanol can not be delivered via pipeline like gasoline because of the water they can’t get out of it. It has to be moved by truck.

It lowers fuel mileage, in part due to the H2O that they can’t get out.

Engines had to be re-engineered to run hotter and new seals developed to accept the ethanol tainted fuel foisted on us by crooked politicians and lobbyists.

That is just scratching the surface.

Ethanol sucks in every way imaginable.