JohnBoy, you just need to be more like Mitch. He does what I say without crying about it.
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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That should be “and”. Apologies.
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.
So The Nation is saying the SCOTUS is not liberal enough?
How can you impeach them when they can just change the rules whenever they want?
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.
Not “should” not “can”
“Will”
And we all know that the answer to that is no, they will not.
And give Obama a chance to appoint the next CJOTSC?
It would not matter with this House and Senate.
“After the latest obamacare ruling, I say yes...”
If Roberts dissented, would it have made a difference?
JohnBoy, you just need to be more like Mitch. He does what I say without crying about it.
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.
CON gress isn’t going to impeach....they are a willing partner of corruption.
Any impeachments should start with this drunken Maoist.
Not sure....don’t know if those who sided with him would have been persuaded differently....
It is too late for that. The damage has already been done.
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?
Ain't gonna happen, we're stuck with him like Earl Warren.
Today,it's "it depends on what the meaning of "state" is".
Yes. But, the ruling class would never allow it.
Yes, absolutely. And I would love to hear a presidential candidate endorse that action.
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