“The chief justice is right. Trump’s attack on Judge Boasberg is juvenile, civically illiterate, and perilous to the rule of law.” It also jeopardizes the safety and even the survival of judges who apply the law without fear or favor.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/trump-justice-roberts-impeachment-judge/682087/
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/trump-justice-roberts-impeachment-judge/682087/
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Tell me when and where I’m needed to be part of a wall that stops these people from coming for the judges, and I would drop what I’m doing to be there.
I know I can’t be the only one.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-rule-of-law
Or “being made to lay down in beds of our own making”.
Or “you are who you hang out with”.
Roberts sure didn’t have my mother rattling off all those age-old sayings.
Pray for all of us!
"But the statement is notable for what it leaves out: any acknowledgment of the substantive dispute in the case, which is whether Trump is defying court orders."
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But Roberts really shouldn't be complaining. He shares the blame with Mitch McConnell for all this. The appeals court was clear: Donald was headed for trial.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/06/donald-trump-immunity-federal-court-ruling-jan-6-election
This is YOUR monster.
YOU created him
So fuck that guy.
A rebuke.
This has been done before.
Like a map redrawn.
Other than that, you can throw your constitution in the toilet.
The voters allowed a Nazi Party to control everything.
Congratulations!!!
It.s here, right now. We need a schism in GOP or some confidential files leaks on Trumps actions .
This is exactly trump's purpose.
Roberts is trying to tell Trump to tone it down because he's got his back. SCOTUS will overturn all these lower court rulings so Trump can rule like the barbaric dictators he so admires.
They are looking for proof of election fraud.
Civically illiterate. Or is he intentionally driving for the predicted head-on collision with the Judiciary? He's being coached how to proceed.
An important guardrail of our democracy was broken that day.
https://www.justsecurity.org/74725/in-their-own-words-the-43-republicans-explanations-of-their-votes-not-to-convict-trump-in-impeachment-trial/
He’s
Chief Justice John Roberts has been a great disappointment since his support for Citizens United. There has to be something wrong with his ideology