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Should We Impeach Chief Justice John Roberts?
the Nation ^ | 11/19/14 | William Greider

Posted on 06/25/2015 12:47:06 PM PDT by illiac

Republicans like to talk about impeaching President Obama, but there is a far more deserving candidate for impeachment—Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court. While the Republicans in Congress have blocked Democrats from enacting much of substance, the GOP majority in control of the Court has been effectively legislating on its own, following an agenda neatly aligned with their conservative party. Step by step, the five right-wing justices are transforming the terms of the American political system—including the Constitution.

They empowered “dark money” in politics and produced the $4 billion by-election of 2014. They assigned spiritual values to soulless corporations who thus gained First Amendment protection of free speech and religion. The justices effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, even as they allowed state governments to create new obstacles for minority voting. The High Court made it okay to take guns to church and more difficult to keep guns from dangerous people. It rendered a series of decisions that collectively shifted political power from the many to the few.

This power grab by the unelected—and supposedly non-partisan—justices has already produced a historic rewrite of America democracy. But it was done by blatantly usurping the decision-making authority that belongs to the elected government in Congress and the executive branch. The Republican justices are not finished with their undeclared revolution. They will continue unless and until people rise up and stop them.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: constitution; crime; obamacare; sublamation
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To: Up Yours Marxists

That should be “and”. Apologies.


21 posted on 06/25/2015 12:53:46 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: illiac
Wait until a Republican (Cruz/Walker) is elected President. Then, rather than impeach, I think that there should be an investigation into his adoption of his children.

Make Roberts resign. No need to impeach him.

He apparently has some skeletons in the closet and is being blackmailed. He has been compromised. Need to get rid of him.

22 posted on 06/25/2015 12:53:58 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: illiac

So The Nation is saying the SCOTUS is not liberal enough?


23 posted on 06/25/2015 12:54:07 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: illiac

How can you impeach them when they can just change the rules whenever they want?


24 posted on 06/25/2015 12:54:38 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: illiac

Should “we” Who is “we”? I don’t believe the votes exist in Congress to do any such thing. Are a bunch of them deserving of it? Sure.


25 posted on 06/25/2015 12:55:01 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Old Sarge

Not “should” not “can”

“Will”

And we all know that the answer to that is no, they will not.


26 posted on 06/25/2015 12:55:07 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: illiac

And give Obama a chance to appoint the next CJOTSC?


27 posted on 06/25/2015 12:55:11 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (-)
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To: illiac

It would not matter with this House and Senate.


28 posted on 06/25/2015 12:55:20 PM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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To: illiac

“After the latest obamacare ruling, I say yes...”

If Roberts dissented, would it have made a difference?


29 posted on 06/25/2015 12:55:39 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The NE Liberal Elites have declared war on the Conservative South. Civil War #2)
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To: illiac
The House of Representatives indicts the accused on articles of impeachment, and, if impeached, the Senate conducts a trial to determine the party's guilt or innocence.

JohnBoy, you just need to be more like Mitch. He does what I say without crying about it.

30 posted on 06/25/2015 12:55:46 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: illiac

Yes. Roberts is writing legislation from the bench, which is not allowed by the Constitution. However, the die was cast when the SCOTUS found the right to murder babies in the Consttution, which is criminal. Once they found the right to murder the most innocent among us, anything goes. Next, it could be the extermination of the expensive elderly that SCOTUSCARE will require in order to stay afloat. Roberts will vote for that as well.


31 posted on 06/25/2015 12:56:22 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: rstrahan

CON gress isn’t going to impeach....they are a willing partner of corruption.


32 posted on 06/25/2015 12:56:25 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: illiac

Any impeachments should start with this drunken Maoist.

33 posted on 06/25/2015 12:56:30 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Feelings Are Today's Truth,Truth Is Today's Blasphemy)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Not sure....don’t know if those who sided with him would have been persuaded differently....


34 posted on 06/25/2015 12:56:37 PM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: illiac

It is too late for that. The damage has already been done.


35 posted on 06/25/2015 12:58:11 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: illiac

Seriously - conservatives and Congress can’t even get e-mail copies from low-level functionaries at IRS or State - and they intend to impeach the Chief Justice. What a joke.

Do you have any other nice-sounding fantasies?


36 posted on 06/25/2015 12:58:19 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: illiac

Ain't gonna happen, we're stuck with him like Earl Warren.

37 posted on 06/25/2015 12:58:59 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: illiac
Some years back it was "it depends on what the meaning of "is" is".

Today,it's "it depends on what the meaning of "state" is".

38 posted on 06/25/2015 12:59:08 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Feelings Are Today's Truth,Truth Is Today's Blasphemy)
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To: illiac

Yes. But, the ruling class would never allow it.


39 posted on 06/25/2015 12:59:33 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: illiac

Yes, absolutely. And I would love to hear a presidential candidate endorse that action.


40 posted on 06/25/2015 1:00:02 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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