There's no such thing as Clinton or Obama judges! We're all objective, fair, and honest!
Posted on 02/24/2020 11:10:31 PM PST by knighthawk
There's no such thing as Clinton or Obama judges! We're all objective, fair, and honest!
She did. She just didn't think the President would call her out on it.
SOTOMAYER AND GINSBURG SHOULD BOTH RESIGN OR BE IMPEACHED. I HOPE PRESIDENT TRUMP FORCES THEIR DISMISSAL SINCE THEY BOTH ARE DEFINITELY BIASED AGAINST HIM. WARM-UP THE SWAMP CLEANER.
If POTUS wants to do the supreme troll, he needs to remind Sotomayor that she might want to re-read Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 and ponder whether she is a legitimately appointed member of the Court.
Radical Baiter Ginsburg Should’ve been called out from the get-go
When I see crap like that it just makes me scratch my head
why anyone would show such bias and still sit on the court
They should recuse themselves from any case dealing with the Constitution as they openly hate it.
+1000!
“...She just didn’t think the President would call her out on it.”
I don’t know what she thought, but she should not be surprised. Let’s see if the (partisan) media carries her water. My theory - they won’t keep this issue alive because it would inform more average voters, vote can only side with POTUS.
POTUS has boxed in 3 justices - Sotomayer and RBG for their patent bias against this POTUS, and Roberts for one of his moments of stupidity, basically saying that the federal judiciary isn’t political. If the judiciary were truly independent, they wouldn’t be political activists. But since they are political, they are subject to being criticized, including by POTUS. (PS - When obozo criticized the SC, some of whom were sitting in front of him during a SOTU, the media applauded him.)
if they had any integrity, they would resign.
If they had any integrity, the dems wouldn’t have put them on the court.
“why anyone would show such bias and still sit on the court”
There are many other cases that don’t involve POTUS that come before the court. Leaving aside their political philosophy that guide them in their decisions for those cases, it is arguable that they should not sit on the bench, let alone recuse themselves. For all cases involving POTUS, they should recuse themselves - especially since they found POTUS alleged bias in campaign statements material to how he as POTUS implemented certain immigration controls. As for their philosophy, the Senate GOP has the political responsibility to keep them off the court. I still shake my head that Kagan made it to the court.
How exactly has he boxed them in? Do you really think any of them will change their decisions in the future just because Trump criticized them?
He “boxed them in” politically. He has painted them fluorescent yellow as so biased against him, that their votes in future cases shall always be viewed as biased. We private deplorables have always known of their bias, but we have very little/no influence in the greater political forum. When a POTUS speaks, it cannot be ignored.
Perhaps for some very high profile cases their bias shall be discussed prior to the cases, maybe more calls for their recusal. I don’t expect them ever to recuse themselves as they are demonkraps, but they will probably go down in history - viewed as bias, partisan justices more than any specific decision they wrote. That is better than pretending we have an “independent” judiciary.
What major Supreme Court opinion in recent years hasn't been seen as biased by those who disagree with the decision? And even then, what difference does that make? Biased or not, if the Supreme Court rules against Trump then there isn't anything he can do about it.
Perhaps for some very high profile cases their bias shall be discussed prior to the cases, maybe more calls for their recusal.
You can call for them to recuse themselves until the cows come home. They don't have to and nobody can make them.
“What major Supreme Court opinion in recent years hasn’t been seen as biased by those who disagree with the decision?”
No doubt about it. We can go back way further than recent years.
What is different here is two sitting justices have openly attacked a sitting POTUS whose administration’s cases come before it and the POTUS has called them out (even though the media should have done this for him).
Leaving their leftist judicial philosophy aside, they have entered the political fray, and every decision related to this POTUS from which they do not recuse themselves is now forever tainted with a visceral bias that cannot be separated from their leftist judicial philosophy. Since they will not recuse themselves from relevant cases (which if they had any ethics, they would) the benefit for their opposition (us) is purely political and goes to their judicial reputations as they have gone beyond an appearance of partiality - they are actually prejudiced justices who lack a level of political smarts. Roberts can deny reality all he wants about a non-political judiciary - the king has no clothes.
Your point seems to be that unless this forces them to recuse themselves, you see no practical benefit. That would be the best benefit, but agreed it won’t happen. There still remains political benefits to be harvested and used against this political institution. These justices are human, they read the news. They would be preferred to be criticized for their leftist decisions than being publicly called out as prejudiced, bias, hypocritical. They brought it on themselves by not keeping their mouths shut. And POTUS calling them out publicly will probably increase the intensity of their visceral hatred toward him.
Whoopie. As if everyone who has ever followed the Supreme Court didn't already know that Gisnburg and Sotomayor were liberal justices.
Leaving their leftist judicial philosophy aside, they have entered the political fray...
The nine justices have been in the 'political fray' for decades. We have four conservative justices. We have four liberal justices. Everyone recognizes that and those are political terms. This is nothing new. Scalia savaged Obamacare, and by extension Obama and the Democrats, in comments from the Bench. Yet he didn't recuse himself.
...and every decision related to this POTUS from which they do not recuse themselves is now forever tainted with a visceral bias that cannot be separated from their leftist judicial philosophy.
And you can claim that they are tainted all you want. They are no more or no less tainted than any other decision they hand down. But a 'tainted' decision is still a Supreme Court decision, and there is no appeal from them.
Your point seems to be that unless this forces them to recuse themselves, you see no practical benefit.
More like when they ignore Trump's call to recuse themselves it makes it clear that Trump is powerless over the Supreme Court. Which, in fact, he is.
By putting this out there he has effectively countered any pressure the others might have had from the Wise Latina’s “shaming”.
The man is brilliant.
We’ve never had a president this good. He is like showing a crucifix to vampire.
Here’s how he “boxed them in.”
He SAID what we are all thinking, but were too SCARED to say it. Now it’s OUT THERE.
AND NOW, WE CAN ALL SAY IT OFTEN AND LOUDLY.
And THAT marginalizes them.
Gotta think like the genius that President Trump is.
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