Posted on 11/22/2018 5:01:36 AM PST by Carriage Hill
In a remarkably inappropriate and blatantly political statement Wednesday, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts chastised President Trump for the president’s quite accurate criticism of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and its rogue district and appellate court judges.
The spectacle of the ostensibly nonpolitical chief justice engaged in a dispute with the president of the United States is insulting to the Supreme Court and to our system of justice.
Shame on the chief justice. What he did is unforgivable, especially after the corrosive Senate confirmation battle over now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was the subject of bitter and baseless partisan attacks and character assassination by Senate Democrats.
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Roberts and Souter, excellent reminders of the Bush era.
History will someday prove Roberts was a compromised man with not enough integrity to step aside instead of letting himself be controlled
A traitor in effect
Yikes! That sounds like a real possibility—but isn’t that made more likely if we continue to pay attention to it?
Wish he would have stayed quiet
I actually understand what Roberts was trying to do here. He just went about it the totally wrong way. He sees the real danger of politicizing a legal process, but his statement — if he felt obligated to make one — should have included a recognition that is country is in dire straits because people with a political agenda that has no place in our country have used the legal system to impose their own political agenda on all of us.
I wonder if Roberts’ outburst is related to the never-disclosed illness that Roberts apparently has.
Roberts needs to resign.
And his beard.
1. The ObamaCare mandate is basically an income tax. That's why it's administered through the IRS and calculated on your income tax return.
2. ObamaCare was introduced in the House in September 2009. The House marked up a tax bill that was originally intended for another purpose and used that as the basis for the Affordable Care Act.
More like: the "powers that be" will do their best to ensure that people with true conservative values do not get in positions of power. They failed to stop Trump, though.
Retrospective:
The Obamacare was not constitutional unless considered as a tax. The mandate made the law a tax.
The mandate is gone. In theory with the mandate gone, the remainder is unconstitutuinal.
Why is there not a law suit rather than floundering around with out success in the Senate?
Roberts is a Bushite.
And deep state too.
Should leave no doubt who the new swing vote is. Just another gift from Bush.
1. The mandate is not "gone." The 2017 tax reform bill reduced the penalty/tax to $0, but other than that the Affordable Care Act remains unchanged and the penalty/tax provision is still in it.
2. There are so many ways to win a lawsuit over various provisions of ObamaCare. Some plaintiffs have been doing just that ... the Hobby Lobby case that nobody talks about, for example. The Roberts decision -- while I hated it -- only applied to one very specific part of the law (the individual mandate). The problem is that it's not always easy to find a plaintiff who has the legal standing to mount a credible case. Here's why: If you were to file a lawsuit against ObamaCare tomorrow, what would be the basis of your case? You'd have to demonstrate that you were harmed in some way, and that's not as easy as you think. Since ObamaCare is all about regulating the health care industry it's really just state governments and insurers who would have the legal standing to challenge those regulatory provisions.
So its safe to say that Roberts is still being blackmailed by Obama because of his illegal adoption of his kids from Ireland?
Roberts is a corrupt little man at times.
Pedophilia is not a conservative value.
Yes
Or a Dr spock style pro forma indulgence of the court letting communists infiltrate.
He seems afraid of the obvious Sottomayor/Kagen new age commi duo
Do the other two branches of our gov’t argue and fight? We are not use to the third branch getting involved in politics altho I am told they have in decades past.
If the CJ wants the Supreme Court to get involved with politics, he picked the wrong president.
Go TRUMP!!!!
Obamacare is a 2 laws, one state system like in France. The “it is just a tax” is a patent lie
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