Chief Justice John Roberts has issued a remarkable statement in response to Trump’s call for impeachment of the judge who ruled against him in Alien Enemy Act case. This is about law, not politics.
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Yeah, but he let that criminal off to do more crimes as POTUS. I guess we have to be relieved for the bare minimum. (maybe, because this is just posturing so far)
There is nothing normal about this administration. They want to turn their leader into a monarch. Don't kid yourself - Donvict Jr. believes he is next in the succession line!
When the heck is these Republican leaders not stepping up to meet with Trump to stop this crisis with the courts. This is a crisis of epic proportions! He’s out to destroy our democracy!
Oh look, Roberts has done his periodic exercise of poking his head up to issue a feeble support of our democracy & Constitution before going back underground.
How quaint. It's this asshole who should be impeached. He still thinks it's January 19 and doesn't get that he's the one who's responsible for things being as they are on March 18. Over-privileged, over-entitled, totally out of touch.
That's all very judicial of Roberts, pointing FFOTUS Kraznov the DIC to the appellate process, but let's wait until SCOTUS rules on the appeal before canonizing Roberts.
SCOTUS has already proven to be willing to give Trump what he wants in past, so how do we know this statement isn't Robert's signal to let SCOTUS handle it?
Hitler’s rise to ultimate power finalized when judges became complicit. Turns out Roberts is a student of history as much as a legal expert. Hope he sticks to it.
Does anyone think this will stop Trump & team? I don't. What consequences could they possibly face? It's not like anyone will charge Trump or his administration. Trump controls the justice department and law enforcement. Remember the little "I'm the chief law enforcement officer" comment last week?
If Roberts believes that Trump will follow the law, or the Constitution, or that Pam Bondi would enforce a judges decision, then he has been woefully naive about the last 10 years. So sad.
Sorry, it is politics. The constitution gives the sole power of impeachment to the House. The president or any individual can call for it. There need not be any legal basis for it. Whether it is prudent, democratic, just, or fair is another matter, but that train left the station a while ago.
I think Roberts is telling Trump that the Supreme Court will NOT blindly support his efforts to tear down this democracy. After all, if there are not 3 branches of government, there will be no Supreme Court. Roberts is fighting for relevancy!
He needs to rehabilitate his reputation and legacy now that there is video of Trump on a hot mic thanking him "wink-wink-nod-nod" for the immunity decision.
Very generous reading based on his (Roberts’) track record. It is just as likely he’s signaling he’ll just overturn the decision so don’t worry about it. This is not hyperbolic, they’ve twisted the law into dust.
For more than two centuries, it was also settled that no man - including the president- is above the law. That didn’t stop the Roberts court from ignoring that
It's a start. Now a Judge needs to throw one of these Gov't officials in jail for contempt for disregarding an order. Then let it go to the Supreme Court and see if they feel that a Court's decision, including their own, mean nothing anymore!
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Maga formed from a community of hate while most of us believe in independence.
Trump grabbed right wingers by their hate & they like it.
The left needs to form a community of social ethics to counter the right, & not just for elections.
Let’s see how much power the courts actually have!
1st edition - Federal Employee
2nd edition - DEIA
3rd edition - "LGB w/o the T"
4th edition - "Legal" Immigrant
Now in the Judicial edition.
President has immunity for official acts because of Roberts. He has pardon power.
Jan 6th got people killed & everyone pardoned.
If he gets a judge killed now by one of his crazy Orangshirts.
What would stop him from being able to pardon them?
What will it take for everyone to say we have a dictator & a Congress unwilling to remove him.
How will this get better?
I don’t see how we will have free and fair elections in 2 years.
States need to stand up.
He led the way for this. He can't be trusted.
And honestly, most people who aren’t lawyers have given up on “the Law” coming to save us.
His court purposely delayed his criminal cases.
His court granted him immunity for illegal acts as President.
Roberts now wants Trump to obey the law and play by the rules.
He has himself to blame.
Totally pre-emptive.
I'm almost afraid to hope that he's not doing another switcheroo
We're in a constitutional interregnum, brought on by the Roberts Court. The sooner we come to grips with that, the better.
I'll leave this here. https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3ljma42ek5227
You think Roberts doesn't realize he'll be pushed to the unthinkable? Hell yes he does.
At some point Trump will want to impeach Roberts. We're in month three. We have 4 effin years of this shit.
We The People are sick of crumbs
#CorruptSCOTUS
We can only hope.
We need to stop giving people credit when they have already shown that they don't care about the law or the people it governs