Posted on 07/01/2026 11:38:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The John Roberts-written ruling on birthplace citizenship marks a chief justice who has sacrificed judicial courage at the altar of comity.
In his brilliant dissenting opinion eviscerating the majority’s legal gymnastics on birthplace citizenship, Justice Samuel Alito warned the court not to “adopt an erroneous interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment simply out of fear of the consequences of ‘rocking the boat’ or as a reaction to current immigration policy.”
But fear and politics, it seems, drove the specious legal reasoning of the “conservatives” who joined the court’s three liberals in killing President Donald Trump’s executive order ending squatter rights citizenship. A reluctance to “rock the boat” of more than a century of bad law permeates the thinking of Chief Justice John Roberts, author of the 5-4 ruling declaring unconstitutional the campaign promise Trump kept on the first day of his second term in office.
Such cowardice in guarding the Constitution has too often marked Roberts’ tenure as the chief of the nation’s high court. From his similar constitutional contortionist act in 2020 Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California to his ridiculous reinvention of the established understanding of a “tax” in playing savior to Obamacare, Roberts has sacrificed judicial courage at the twin altars of comity and continuity.
‘The Value of American Citizenship’
President George W. Bush’s nominee for chief justice has described himself — and all judges — as “umpires.” They don’t make the rules, he said. They apply them.
“They make sure everybody plays by the rules...”
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And we’re being ruled by them, just like the Supreme court in Israel .... they rule, the government does not.
Cowardice, incoherence, moral confusion, and stupidity!
And blatantly flipping America the bird.
Legalizing bammycare and basically rewriting the darn thing.
Legalizing homo marriage.
And now this most recent mess.
Lib judges never, ever, never betray their party.
Taking a giant, stinking Roberts...
Roberts and Souter are the two Bush appointees who followed the orders of the Bush Wing of the Republican Party.
And we still have far too many Bush Republicans in Congress.
“””Lib judges never, ever, never betray their party.””””
Roberts has not betrayed his party because Robert’s party is the Bush Republican Party.
Roberts is the worst Chief Justice of the Supreme Court since Roger B Taney.
Well, he did give us Lake Taneycomo. 🤡
The problem isn’t SCOTUS:
It’s Congress.
STUPID AND ILLEGAL ADOPTION WILLBE HIS LEGAACY!
Roberts and Amy B. should be impeached; however, the lousy republicans and of course, the dimocrats don’t won’t to do that.
Roberts is one of the most pathetic pieces of sh*t to ever sit on the SCOTUS. And yeah, that’s saying something.
As an American citizen, raised by American/Christian parents I believe that much of our “justice” systice had best change their ways imediately & then fall down on their hands & knees seeking God’s forgiveness.
Yellowbelly Roberts.
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