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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
Don’t miss the source of this story: The Nation.
Useless. 1st off, the P-T-B wanted this ruling. DC is a kabuki theater with the outcome of any question already decided; just how it is presented to the public shifts with “political necessity”.
America would be far better off if the 9-11 terrorists had landed on a SOTU joint session of congress than the WTC towers.
America, as it was founded, is finished.
If we cannot impeach Obama for his indisputable treasonous acts he consistently flaunts in the open, how do we impeach a sitting justice over an opinion?
This country is toast.
... and the date: November.
Today,it's "it depends on what the meaning of "state" is".
With Boehner the fix is in. Roberts, like Traitorobama, could rape a boy on the steps of the Supreme Court, then kill him afterwards, and the GOP-controlled House would not impeach.
The Republicans are at fault for doing nothing to stop this. It is they that have allowed these actions to grow exponentially.
When you give a little, people always will come back to take more.
I was the new kid at school, 8th grade. One of the hoods demanded 'lunch money'. I ended up getting my ass kicked, but not w/o doing some damage. No one bothered me again.
The Republicans gave their lunch money to the democrats a long time ago.
Yes.
Congress repeatedly stated in writing that it is not a tax but a penalty. Roberts ignored that and called it a tax.
Congress made clear that subsidies were an inducement to States to establish an exchange. Roberts ignored that, too.
He’s making things up out of whole cloth.
Keen political instincts you’ve got there, Bill.
Oh wait... you’re just a career liar. Nevermind.
Washington DC is populated, nearly exclusively, by traitors.
Not while Obama is making the appointments.
Best thing you can do is take care of your immediate family and draw closer to God to the exclusion of most everything else...
Impeach Roberrts? Yes! Oh wait, and then let Obama put in a even more radical Judge! FUBAR!!!
The irony of the writer, the source and the date have been largely lost on the thread.
It could be that Traitor Roberts is just plain evil. He attended Law School after all.
Tomorrow: more “official” definitions for the word “marriage”.
It is grossly unfair to point a finger at only Roberts. Sure, he was the last line of defense, but many, many traitors played a part in it long before it got to him.
And the list is far too long to outline here. But you know who they are.
I hope someone finds out what the WH has on him and just release it online.
He will leave on his own.
“We” are not permitted to impeach anyone.
But I am starting to believe that open civil disobedience is necessary regarding a variety of subjects.
6 right wing judges? WTH?
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