Posted on 02/13/2025 5:25:15 PM PST by george76
Amy Coney Barrett strikes again—alongside Justice Roberts. However, by now, Roberts’ betrayals have become pretty much predictable, but many had high hopes for Barrett, given her history as a clerk for Justice Scalia, one of the greatest Supreme Court Justices of our time. In fact, she was once hailed as “Scalia’s heir.”
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Sadly, that claim couldn’t be further from the truth.
In what many conservatives are calling an outright slap in the face, Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts dealt a blow to President Trump and the US Constitution. They got political, sided with the progressives, and ruled against Trump in the Trump v. New York case.
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Thanks to Roberts and Coney Barrett, Trump was dragged through the lawfare circus in New York City and sentenced by deep state lapdog Judge Merchan.
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By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court handed a largely symbolic, but still politically significant, loss to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, both Republicans, voted with all three of the Court’s Democrats.
The case, known as Trump v. New York, involves Trump’s felony convictions for falsifying business records related to hush money payments Trump made to an adult actress. Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges last May, but he is not scheduled to be sentenced until Friday. Trump had asked the Supreme Court to halt that sentencing hearing, at least until higher courts hear his appeals claiming that his conviction violates a legal doctrine, newly established by the Supreme Court’s recent immunity ruling in favor of Trump, which gives former presidents broad but not limitless immunity from prosecution.
As we’ve said before, Roberts is practically a liberal masquerading in a black robe. Many believe there’s something hanging over him, which might explain why he’s always handing the left their key victories. But Amy Coney Barrett was supposed to be different—a powerhouse for the conservative movement, a beacon of hope. Meh. Instead, she’s turned out to be another weak-kneed RINO. It’s like having a “Susan Collins” type on the Supreme Court bench.
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Conservatives and constitutionalists know not to expect much from Chief Justice John Roberts.
What we've been increasingly forced to learn is to expect just as little from Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
Is she just David Souter 2.0?
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The truth is, here at Revolver, we always had our doubts about Amy Coney Barrett. We never believed she’d truly be the “heir” to Justice Scalia. In fact, we tried to sound the alarm four long years ago. In a piece urging President Trump to nominate Judge Bade over Coney Barrett, we acknowledged Amy’s skills and her conservative roots. But even then, we knew she wasn’t the “shock and awe” powerhouse that this pivotal moment in history needed.
Amy had the credentials, sure, but she lacked the passion our side needed to drive the real change we needed. We saw it four years ago, and now, we’re watching it play out in real time.
Revolver:
Fox News isn’t even including Judge Bridget Shelton Bade’s photograph in their frequent on-air lineups of the supposed frontrunners to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That’s a terrible oversight, because Judge Bade is not only in the running and rapidly amassing support, she is the best choice President Trump could make.
This pick is about more than simply getting one of the many strong options from President Trump’s shortlist on the Court. There is, notably, a powerful current of conservative enthusiasm behind Judge Amy Coney Barrett. As we’ve written here at Revolver, Judge Barrett is an extraordinary woman and exemplary conservative jurist. She would make a great Supreme Court Justice, but she is simply not the ideal nominee for this political moment. Amy Coney Barrett may appear to promise the shock we all know the system deserves, but her nomination risks reframing the precarious Trump reelection effort from a winning battle over law and order, immigration, and left-wing political violence to a messy and poorly timed slog through well-worn battles that would be better and more effectively fought after Trump wins re-election.
What we wrote about Judge Bade is everything that Amy Coney Barrett is not, and why we truly believed she was the right choice. The Revolver piece goes on:
Judge Bade is not a compromise choice. She’s not some softie “establishment GOP type” liable to go the way of David Souter or John Paul Stevens after a few trips to opera at the Kennedy Center. While extraordinarily well qualified — cum laude from Arizona State Law, clerk for eminent Reagan-appointed Judge Edith Jones of the Fifth Circuit, DOJ Honors during Bill Barr’s first stint as Attorney General, and elected member of the prestigious American Law Institute — she’s no ivory tower academic. Bade is not another “conservative legal movement” darling, haunting the pages of law reviews with elegant solutions to novel questions of administrative law. She’s not even a member of the Federalist Society.
What Judge Bade is is nothing but the genuine article: a no-nonsense, read-it-how-its-written, law and order jurist in the proudest tradition of the old Southwest, and in the very same spirit of President Trump’s America First campaign.
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Judge Bade—she’d still be an outstanding candidate for President Trump’s upcoming term:
The Case for Judge Bridget Bade
In the end, Amy was chosen—and now it seems we’ve ended up with the female version of Justice Roberts. Is there still hope for Justice Barrett? Perhaps. Anyone can have an awakening, but the odds aren’t in our favor. As we warned four years ago, she was never the right person for this moment in history. And once that fundamental mismatch is revealed, it’s almost impossible to overcome.
Judge Amy
Why does Roberts fly to Malta to visit the bank and give lectures to the Knights of Malta?
I see no discussion of the merits of the case, only an “us vs. them” mentality. I expect better from “us”.
Those of us watching much of the Trump lawfare drama play out have noticed that sometimes the country is better served when Trump loses a case and I believe he WANTS to lose certain cases. Is this one of them? IDK.
It’s just sad to see a knee-jerk reaction rather than a discussion of the case on its merits.
This is dated January 13, 2025.
Now reveal all of the taxpayer money used to payoff congressional peccadellos in congress and then prosecute them. Fair is fair. At least Trump used his own money. Then impeach, try, fine and jail them all.
Hmmm. This was a month ago. Is it newsworthy now?
Gwjack
John Roberts went with Bubba to Epstein’s island.?
or ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4062418/posts
I was suspicious of her when the press showed her unloading a car-ful of Whole Foods bags. And then they made a big deal of her oh-so-diverse (contrived) career-enhancing family.
She had “the look” — the look that surrounded me when we lived in SoCal. I knew she was trouble. Whomever recommended her to PDJT should be punished.
Roberts didn’t have to go to Epstein’s island. He’s been going to Malta every summer with his buddies. Plus it’s a mecca for private banking.
There was no discussion of the merits because they decided that since Merchan’s sentence was an unconditional discharge, there was no harm to Trump in pursuing his appeal in normal order and therefore no need for an emergency appeal. What is disappointing is that Roberts and Amy needed to stand with the others on stopping judicial chicanary.
No, what is disappointing is that this item reappears now. It was over and done with pre Inauguration.
If they hadn’t ruled against Trump, then Trump would have been sentenced 4 years from now and wouldn’t be able to appeal his conviction until then.
I called it as soon as Trump was elected. I knew the TDS SCOTUS was going to throw him under the bus. Expect a whole bunch of unconstitutional crap to come out of there the next four years.
Barrett and Roberts both hate Trump and love getting invited to all the right parties. Making a legitimate legal decision comes in third place behind those two priorities.
Neither one belongs on the Supreme Court.
Got such and Kavanaugh aren’t much better.
LORD, we ask that You restore our SC to a place of justice. Your Word declares that You hate uneven scales and love justice. We ask for justice in our court, Father, in the precious Name of Jesus, amen.
Just in general, here on Free Republic, the only two good conservative justices are Alito and Thomas.
The decision in question involved an attempt to expedite an appeal that hadn't yet worked through the usual appeal process for a state criminal case.
If the defendant in the case had been anyone other than President-elect Donald Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court would have issued a 9-0 ruling against him.
Donald Trump is not a true conservative. He's a populist. And yes, he's a nationalist.
But really, he's not that conservative.
The only reason he did something about Roe vs Wade was that at the time he needed the votes from Christian Conservatives in the Republican Party.
Now that Roe vs Wade is history, he's free to go back to the center on the abortion issue.
Now he's saying it's up to the states and that's the way it should be.
Hopefully they both retire in the next four years and replaced with 40 year olds.
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