Posted on 11/22/2018 9:03:02 PM PST by Texas Fossil
But as outgoing Senate Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) later noted, Roberts was silent when President Barack Obama attacked the Court during the State of the Union address in 2010:
Chief Justice Roberts rebuked Trump for a comment he made abt judges decision on asylum I dont recall the Chief attacking Obama when that Prez rebuked Alito during a State of the Union
ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) November 21, 2018
Likewise, Roberts said nothing when Obama bullied the Supreme Court on numerous occasions and even appeared to yield to Obamas pressure.
In 2010, President Obama used his first State of the Union address to denounce the Courts January 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case, which struck down restrictions on corporate political speech under the First Amendment.
With six of the nine justices sitting silently in the House of Representatives, Obama told the nation their ruling will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.
Democrats leapt to their feet in applause. Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words, Not true and never attended another State of the Union address.
But Roberts said and did nothing to defend the Court from Obamas unprecedented assault on its independence.
In April 2012, when oral arguments in the Obamacare case (NFIB v. Sebelius) appeared to go against the administration, Obama warned the Supreme Court against overturning the law, attacking the very idea that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.
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And at no time in my lifetime have they been balanced as to impartiality between Republican and Democrat Administrations.
Our battle for the Rule of Law and Blind Justice continues. We must restore the rule of law, if we do not succeed the Republic is dead. And freedom dies with it.
Obama would do something viscious and underhanded on account of his adopted kids and he new it. Some Obama loyalist may still. Trump won’t.
Grassley nails that prick.
Absolutely.
Roberts flipped to an Obama judge when he upheld 0-care. Roberts is still under the globalist thumb.
Yes.
Compromised.
That’s why we need a Roberts-proof originalist majority on the court.
It appears to still be true.
Well done by Grassley supporting POTUS. The GOPe disappoints us so often but you have to give the old bull credit here. THIS is what we need A LOT MORE of.
He sat there silently, like Howdy Dowdy without any Puppetmaster there to pull his strings.
Gee. Wonder what hidden facts about Chief Justice Roberts are known by certain people and just how Roberts is periodically reminded about the existence of those oh so embarrassing facts.
In total agreement.
bttt
Good for Grassley he has balls.
Old Chuck got a heat on!
Something Ive always wondered. Roberts only had a little over two years as a judge when RINO GW Bush nominated him to the court. I dont think he had ever written an opinion, or if he had, very damn little. But Bush not only made him a Supreme Court Justice but the Chief Justice, passing over Scalia and all the other more senior judges on the court. Hes turned into just another liberal sitting in the court. Another wasted pick by a Republican President. No experience to speak of and that dimwitted GW Bush put him on the court. But lets not forget Bush tried to get his personal lawyer on the court, who had never been a judge, but she was a good friend of Juniors from Texas. So the inexperienced, unqualified Roberts replaced the
inexperienced, unqualified Harriet Myers. Roberts might as well have appointed by a liberal, but then again he was. Liberal George Bush.
I think bush knew exactly what he was doing(told to do)with myers and then roberts.Hell,for all we knew this was the plan all along by the deepstate to get obamacare upheld as constitutional even though it was argued as one thing and passed as another.The bastards.
Hmmm
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