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Posted on 03/05/2026 9:57:45 PM PST by TBP
long-time U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse, recently wrote a surprisingly candid description of how U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts added “gratuitous” language into his opinion on the recent tariff case, personally criticizing the president on record.
Greenhouse conveniently frames the justice’s indulgence, however, as a legitimate “warning” to both the president and “the waiting world.” She states that Roberts “is losing patience with Trump.” Apparently, the chief justice is thought to be entitled to act as a shadow president.
Greenhouse admits that Roberts’s personal opinion of the president, made by a judge who is tasked with technical assessments of legal arguments — or calling balls and strikes — is outside the bounds of his normal case opinion writing.
But she nonetheless celebrates his second-guessing of executive office decision-making, as a new judicial responsibility, and appropriate as a watchdog for public policy he disagrees with, or that his political influencers disagree with. That is obviously outside his constitutional and judicial oath, but it may be inside an impeachable offense.
Most troubling about this loss of judicial judgment, is that it indicates not only poor self-control, but outside influence, and partisan overreach. Judges aren’t trained or qualified in macroeconomics or trade policy, and they struggle already with legal rules and legal doctrine.
Roberts apparently deems himself a judge-cum-behavioral economist.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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He should have been gone after his gyrations that preserved obamacare.
Absolutely, that left no doubt that he was compromised.
What it is is Amateur Hour. It's petulance.
He’s not going to resign, and he won’t be impeached and removed. This article may be a wonderful complaint about Roberts, but the discussion of his resignation is a fantasy.
You mean his pretzel act To bend his interpretation of law to somebody’s will?
Funny that How Obama cares not a tax on the sheeple and yet somehow tariffs have become so.
She didn’t mean to, but I’m glad this Ms Greenhouse is speaking up about Justice Roberts inserting his personal opinion about the president in legal statements and conclusions. He needs to watch his privilege.
A certain Wise (ass) Latina might catch him opinionating on the Liberal conclusions too. She won’t take it quietly.
No reason not to take Trump election challenge seriously in 2020 to avoid Jan. 6........ no reason to let Trump get impeached by lies and fraudulent articles. And if the individual mandate for Obamacare was constitutional as a tax, what kind of tax was it, and what now is Obamacare after Trump got rid of the mandate?
What Roberts is doing is exactly why G W Bush put him in the Chief Justice position. They are both deep staters to the core. He not only needs to be removed, he needs to be in prison for his unconditional rulings.
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Everyone knows who Roberts is. He oozes sleaze. He’s a political animal. But he’s not going to resign. That’s wishful thinking.
The executive branch has a number of methods to impose tariffs. The IEEPA is not one of them.
Long past time,
pence of schiff Roberts has been afu since W elevated him.
He is at least as effd up as McCain whom he illegitimately validated..
As my deceased sister used to say,
‘Up his nose with a rubber hose.” Almost seems too good for him.
Do you honestly think any appointment by Trump to replace Roberts would not be delayed as a way for Dems to make more demands? This court for the most part has been good at reestablishing the Constitutional roles of the President and the executive branch.
“Judges aren’t trained or qualified in macroeconomics or trade policy,”
The question put before the court was not on macroeconomics or trade policy. It was whether the Emergency Powers Act gave President Trump the authority to levy tariffs under that act. The plain language of the act contradicted Trump’s claim that it did. Following the ruling Trump used authority granted by him in other statute and law to levy tariffs. Which he could have done to begin with.
Eisen and Roberts vacation together, socialize together and work on "justice" issues together.
Eisen utterly hates Trump, and therefore conservatives, with high intensity. Google the scumbag and see for yourself.
Roberts should be tossed from the bench or somehow hounded out of office over his tight relationship with Eisen but the chance of either happening is zero percent. That's a shame.
"the chief justice timidly backed away from even hearing a vital case over national election fraud; invented dubious interpretations to save Obamacare; rejected impeachment for federal judges who illegally block illegal migrant deportation; and now displays political activism to frustrate international tariff policy."
Now Brave Sir Roberts emulates said district judges by presuming executive oversight of the Executive Branch of government. I'd like to play poker with the man, as I've seen the barely hidden disgust poorly tucked away as he comes in President Trump's proximity - a classic 'tell' he can't control.
Now that his personal revulsion is plainly showing in his work it's plain that he's unable to determine law with the clear-sighted intellect his position requires.
He might not want to but Roberts can (and should) be pressured out so America can have the benefit of a Chief Justice Thomas for the few years that excellent jurist's health allows him.
I don’t even need to read this article to agree 100%.
Roberts should never have even been on the SC let alone chief justice.
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