Posted on 11/23/2018 12:21:31 AM PST by Kaslin
After yet another liberal California judge earlier this week blocked one of President Trump’s policies - this time a new asylum rule that would have required applicants to arrive at a designated port of entry (a lot to ask, I know) - the understandably frustrated president lashed out at liberal courts in general.
“I think it’s a disgrace when every case gets filed in the 9th Circuit,” said Trump. “That’s not law, that’s not what this country stands for. Every case that gets filed in the 9th Circuit, we get beaten and then we end up having to go to the Supreme Court, like the travel ban, and we won.”
The president was referring to the fact that, as ‘luck’ has it, the decision would need to be appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Known affectionately as the ‘9th Circus Court’ or ‘The Nutty 9th,’ this wackadoodle collection of Birkenstock-wearing hippies who call themselves ‘judges’ - the same group that famously ruled the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional because it contains the words “under God’ - seems to take delight in foiling literally everything Trump-related that comes before them on the basis of the firm legal precedent that Trump’s a meanie.
How liberal? Put it this way - so liberal even the squishy Senator Jeff Flake introduced a bill last year that would have split them up, lamenting that the court, as currently comprised, “represents 40 percent of all the landmass in the U.S., 20 percent of the population.”
So when Trump took a swipe at this black-robe-clad West-Coast edition of the Che Guevara fan club, he merely echoed sentiments conservatives have had for years. But because it’s all cool and stuff to criticize Trump, none other than Chief Justice John Roberts felt obligated to speak out.
“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Roberts said in a statement to the Associated Press. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
Interestingly, as Senator Chuck Grassley pointed out Wednesday via Twitter, presidents have criticized courts before - even the Supreme Court - and not gotten nearly the backlash from Roberts.
Grassley’s history lesson referred to 2010, when former President Obama criticized the Supreme Court’s then-recent 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, a campaign finance case, during his first State of the Union speech. Obama’s public humiliation of the court in front of the entire nation - while they were all sitting there, no less - was so egregious that Justice Alito felt compelled to famously mouth the words “not true” as the world looked on.
To his credit, Roberts addressed the issue several weeks later but his criticism wasn’t so much directed at Obama himself, but rather at the “very troubling” political atmosphere at the State of the Union address. In fact, the chief justice actually went out of his way to suggest that Obama and others have “an obligation” to “criticize what we do” if they disagree.
Not so with Trump, of course. Instead, we’re lectured about judges somehow being apolitical when anyone with any political sense knows that’s not true.
Can we attribute Roberts’ statement to congeniality alone? Sure, it’s good to get along with the people you work with, especially if you’re stuck with them literally for life. It would be miserable to have the same hatred for people you spend most of your day with that Left and Right seem to have for each other in the Trump-era. So in that sense I get that Kavanaugh and Kagan probably enjoy playing patty-cake together and Roberts probably gets a ‘do-gooder’ rush when he holds Ginsburg’s knitting while she takes her 5th power nap of the day.
But let’s not forget that these judges are literally deciding whether America prospers over the next several decades or whether our country turns into a Third World hellhole. Yes, they have far too much power, but power they have, power that affects us all in more ways than we can imagine. They may be set for life, but our lives in many ways hang in the balance.
Roberts’ statement responding to Trump, while assumedly well-meaning, speaks to the myopia of a man who has been removed from the life of an ordinary American for far too long. No “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges” ?? Is this man serious? First of all, are there ANY examples of a judge appointed by Obama or Clinton NOT consistently ruling to strip the Constitution of every shred of its original meaning and turn the United States into a Third World banana republic?
On the other hand, while there are wonderful examples of judges appointed by conservative presidents literally preserving our nation with smart rulings, why do far too many of these judges get mushy in the head as their time on the bench grows? We all know what happened to David Souter. The real question is - will the same fate befall John Roberts?
President Trump deservedly lashed out at the chief justice again on Thanksgiving:
“Justice Roberts can say what he wants, but the 9th Circuit is a complete & total disaster,” Trump tweeted. “It is out of control, has a horrible reputation, is overturned more than any Circuit in the Country, 79%, & is used to get an almost guaranteed result. Judges must not Legislate Security and Safety at the Border, or anywhere else. They know nothing about it and are making our Country unsafe. Our great Law Enforcement professionals MUST BE ALLOWED TO DO THEIR JOB! If not there will be only bedlam, chaos, injury and death. We want the Constitution as written!”
The “Constitution as written.” Perish the thought. Sure, maybe that’s what most ordinary Americans want, but does John Roberts? Or does the man who has already ruled to keep Obamacare wish to replace Anthony Kennedy as the court’s ‘swing-vote,’ and thus the most important person in America?
Yes. Roberts pulled the “mandate/tax” thing out of his asz, and he did it specifically to save Obama the embarrassment.
The Roberts Adoption:
They adopted 2 kids from Ireland. Irish law makes it illegal for people not residing in Ireland to do that. The 2 Irish mothers flew to somewhere in Latin America, gave up the kids to “kid brokers”. The kids were exported to America, to the Roberts couple:
The adoption was technically illegal —Roberts was vulnerable on this.
You’ve seen the not-so-gay “gay photos” but a lot of people think the Illegal Adoption is why he flipped on Obamacare.
He wrote a crazy rationale that started out with wording highly suggestive that he had once been against Obamacare.
Some people think Roberts was blackmailed.
Like on a Pike.
“Things to come” came when Roberts pimped Obamacare for the Kenyan Obonzo.
BINGO! (Sorry for the “triggering capitalism” Frank!)
No, what is in progress is mostly hype of the day
We must NOT call them liberals any longer. They are far from real liberals. (Like me) They are really fascists in disguise. NOT liberals.
An added bonus is to call attention to the term and make people really think about what fascism actually is.
Make people think!
Soulless portals are attracted to this power for some reason.
I tend to agree with you, but, as far as I’m concerned Roberts fired the first shot across the bow. It was SCOTUS that, recently, said the Executive Branch had the authority to make these decisions. There is a statute that backs that up. As usual, a judge from the 9th Circuit, felt the need to assert authority he does not have, to counter a policy he does not agree with.
Maybe the President should have just done what obama would have done. Ignored the court and ordered Border Patrol, etc to carry out his orders. It’s not like the 9th Circuit is going to send the US Marshals to the border to lock up the Border Patrol, especially when the President is, ultimately, their boss.
At the end of the day, Roberts showed his true colors. He’s a globalist, at best. Closet RINO/Liberal/GOPe/NWO stooge that was picked by Bush for a reason.
Not a typo.
I invented it as a way to mock the enemy.
And all the enemies are derps.
#FlipAlinsky
Good luck!
Considering the success we've had at getting horses to drink at the trough!
Those children of Roberts are about 17 now so they aren’t going to be taken away. Roberts doesn’t need to be embarrassed as the illegality of the adoption is fairly widely known. So it seems the reason for his comments about Trump may well be that he is just another neverTrumper in truth.
yeah, that was a certainly a good moment, but my vote goes to 2004 when Buckhead caught the photoshop fakery that Dan Rather tried to use to take down Bush... and ultimately it took Rather down, instead.
(maybe someone can start a thread - whats your vote for great moments in Free Republic history)
the JG
Obama judges.
Negating our ability to defend the border of our country is treason.
They all hate Trump. He’s an outsider who is disrupting all their scams on We, the People.
What can I tell you? Roberts didn’t criticize Obama because he was afraid of him.Does he actually know that Scalia died of natural causes? No.
Does he know that President Trump isn’t dangerous to the court, or to the rule of law? Yes.OTOH the courts all pretend that none of them are anything but apolitical. It is de riguer. I refer you to the Bush v. Gore case, in which - notwithstanding the best efforts of the Supreme Court of Florida - SCOTUS found that Bush won Florida fair and square.
The majority in that case knew perfectly well that the Supreme Court of Florida had its thumb on the scales for Gore. That’s why they decided as they did. But the last thing they wanted (after seeing Gore wrongly win) was to admit that the Supreme Court of Florida was cooking the books. Which is why they famously warned against anyone ever citing Bush v. Gore as precedent.
The bottom line is that the fact that Justice Roberts feels free to criticize Trump for telling the truth about the Ninth Circus is a sign of the health of the Republic. Even if the fact that Mr. Trump was correct is not.
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