He put his head in the leopard’s f’ing mouth when he & his cabal of conservative clowns gave a despot like Trump free rule on any crime he wished to commit while president.
SCOTUS made themselves useless at that moment!
This version of Trump was the only possible outcome from their stupidity.
Calm down, Johnny. You and Clarence will still get to wear your robes and attend the turmp re-inauguration ceremony every 4 years. Just keep yer yaps shut, and go on long cross-country trips in those new fancy RVs.
Hahahahaha!!!
Same court.. (checks notes); gives immunity to one branch... Ahem... One man, thinking he was on the same page in the "redistribution" of power.. finds out what the cult of personality is really capable of when it no longer needs legitimacy
Does someone need to explain to him that the immunity he gave, created this monster? How come us nonlawyers, us non-judges, us non-legal experts, saw this coming a mile away?
THIS PART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't even want to hear Roberts whine about how his court is now superfluous to the process anymore! HE MADE IT THAT WAY. So be it on his head. *There are NOT enough eye rolls to eye roll here. * Roberts abandoned our CONSTITUTION first!
Exactly. I think greed & money break brains. I think they also see trunp as a fool they can control just like every other dictator in history. It’s pathetic they didn’t see any of this but they are broken.
Yeah, I would think a few of them are compromised. Kickbacks, cash, free refurbished rentals for Mom's, like Clarence Thomas. Hard to imagine that we have a country that really needs to investigate its own Supreme Court.
You know who I really feel sorry for? The three women in SCOTUS other than Barrett who keep showing up, voting against the stupidity day after day, writing scathing dissents, and being so close, still being unable to stop it.
You told the worst person in our country's history that they have full immunity to do whatever they want and call it an official act. TF you think he was going to do with that?
The GOP Congress and SCOTUS have rendered themselves obsolete. The 🍊🤡 ignores SCOTUS and his executive orders have made the GOP controlled Congress useless.
Roberts is largely responsible for the mess this country is in.
The gaslighting is strong with this one. We saw with our eyes and heard with our ears how YOU manufactured this shit show. YOU have the power to change course but choose to deflect. We also heard that Trump thank you twice followed by "I will remember". Complicit traitor.
This all happened because of the MAGA controlled SCOTUS decision to deliberately defy the Constitution allowing Trump to run for elected office after he incited the J6 insurrection.
While Mitch filled the rest of the courts with more Republican partisans who would be happy to go along (keep those motor coaches and trips to visit Nazi princesses coming).
A lot of words to say, huh? Are you f-ing kidding me?
Why are we even entertaining this whole president controlling the courts thing? A more effective retort would be Go F yourself, that’s not happening.
IMO, those who voted for immunity ARE TRAITORS. Some of them are supposed to be Catholic. Well that flew out the window when they supported the Anti-Christ. The last thing any of these traitors are for is THIS COUNTRY. Their priority is self and MONEY
Just another FYI for Roberts that he won't heed:
Once your irrelevance has been solidified you become 100% vulnerable just like "We the People" who you didn't bother to listen to, but instead excused the Court's bad behavior and bad decision making.
Roberts may have given King Felonious immunity in order to protect SCOTUS, but that won't necessarily work. His Lowness can still disband SCOTUS on a whim.
They say people can be blinded by love but I think they're even more likely to be blinded by greed.
SCOTUS didn't realize that the more power they gave to the President (and the GOP in general) the more they were eroding their own and driving the court to irrelevance.
Children in Gaza are begging for food. This isn’t caused by a natural disaster. It’s a man made siege enforced by a brutal regime. Boycott products that support this injustice. Make your voice heard. Demand the entry of aid and the end of weapons to this regime.
Time to zero the Court and start over with RULES. Let's start with real constitutional scholars, not bribed political hacks in robes, and make sure they are subject to Justice like everyone else, including their King trump.
When SC granted the immunity to the felon, I realized they are not that smart. For their personal gain, it would go against themselves. They would be irrelevant as we can see. They won’t have any influence, authority, prestige, power and no under the table money which Thomas loves so much.
You cant say shit like this when you're the one who lit the fucking fire. I thought you had to be smart to be a Chief Justice... how can you be so out of touch with reality?
Maybe if he had shown that necessary "Independence" before by nuking the 2 openly bribed and purchased justices and quashing the pro-Trump Federalist influence, I'd believe him a bit more.
He's seemingly quite shocked about his judiciary being caught in the conflagration he brought the napalm to.
As far as I’m concerned, all this post-President-is-King ruling squealing from Roberts is him trying to set up plausible deniability that he’s not on the take from DJT & his handlers.
There’s no way he’s too dumb to have understood what he did. It wasn’t even a 2D chess move.
Or they can undo the damn damage they've done with their immunity bullshit!
How about they start with that!
They created the monster.. and then let him out of his cage.
Until & unless they reverse their decision, they're useless!
Time to take the case back to SCOTUS and see if they double down!
Absolutely!!! At least they used to try to hide it! Smdh
But that immunity decision was the straw that broke the camel's back, and stopped shitler from being sent to prison.
And the rest is history! 😞
When they said the president had almost no checks on his power in an official capacity Biden should have come to their doors and arrested them. In an official capacity because that’s what the logical end of that decision would look like.
You have only yourself and your similarly deciding colleagues to blame. This is on YOU and no one else. YOU crowned Trump King of America. And now you're whingeing that he's not respecting the separation of powers.
Oops, you told he had unlimited power. He’s not that bright, so he’s using that power. He’s also installed an AG that went to xyz law school and is shredding the credibility of the Doj. Alas, this is on you, Roberts
Actually, I'd say they were stupid and corrupt and they sacrificed their power, and now they are whining about their loss of power instead of doing anything useful about it.
He's definitely deflecting & gaslighting us. Gee whiz folks, I would do something but he's got all the power....that I gave him, but let's not talk about that.
"I remain puzzled by the fact that this illegitimate Supreme Court granted these mysterious Presidential powers while Joe Biden was President and Biden didn't even bother to take them out for a test drive. WTF was that about?"
I thought Roberts had forgotten about the THREE EQUAL SEPARATE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT. I hope he remembers from now on. I hope Trump remembers from now on!
Maybe Roberts and the other Republican Justices should have thought things through before they decided to allow the smooth brained moron could hide behind presidential immunity.
Haha Roberts, you sold out. You and your 5 comrades deserve what happens to your careers. Unfortunately, you 🍊🤡 kissing dwerps have caused a lot of pain to us.
SCOTUS nullified the Constitution on July 1, 2024, in favor of serial dictatorship, which simultaneously nullified the federal government’s legal/contractual authority to govern.
I do not consent to absolute despotism & taxation without representation.
The USA is over. This is the age of Warlords. Soon there will be no centralized authority. Trump is doomed. It is who can control a region. Drug lord, Mafia, military strongman etc. Exploiting my time alive. I just hope it's quick and painless
1/2 Please do not use what power you have left proffering capitulation in advance. Please choose to help rally the forces against the dying of the light.
The age of humanity has been “the age of Warlords.” Many generations have fought for the expansion of the rights & protections promised in the…
My expression has always been the same. I rail against injustice as I am one who suffered at the hands of authoritarian tyrants and the mocking of ignorant sychophants. I only know from history, that such struggles among classes means great sacrifice to those not in power. Inevitable? All must die.
I agree wholeheartedly. None of the branches are upholding the constitution nor defending it from constant attacks. Everyone seems to be shirking their responsibilities. If they’re afraid? Quit. We get it, things are scary. So get out of the way, former leaders. The nation wants progress & sanity.
I think they're afraid that if they quit, it'll be treated like they're soldiers fleeing the frontline and they'll be scooped up and made an example of.
I honestly believe this. They've got the tiger by the tail to get into power, and now they're realising they're fucked and can't try to run away.
We're only going to get THEM if people start standing up to his enforcers.
And these people watching and jeering while old ladies being dragged out of Town Halls instead of obstructing the Brownshirts or even beating them into a quivering red mass make me sick.
No, not even that.
Then we're back to political campaigning for SCOTUS seats.
No. Dems need to do more than check the boxes when confirming these fascists
They need to look at their court decisions, and just go "No. Nope. NEXT" instead of asking them questions and ASSUMING THEY'RE TELLING THE TRUTH
The problem arises from the fact that the Executive can appoint the members of the judiciary especially as the appointment is for life. That is where the US Constitution is weak but it won’t be changed because it’s not in the interest of the present incumbent to do so.
Roberts is such a transparent phony. If he really cared about judicial independence, he would have never given trump immunity. Roberts is just trying to save face here.
Really Roberts? Then please show me where exactly in the Constitution it says any person is immune from prosecution for their crimes or where it is based in US federal law?
Maybe someone should file a lawsuit challenging the presidential immunity decision they made under Biden. Maybe some of these justices have had a change of heart???
But I still mistrust his statement given he must have known that the court granting a president immunity from prosecution for “official acts” was placing what independence the courts do have at the whim of the president.
I'm not sure how you're paid indicates your independence, necessarily (co-equal and all). Who do they answer TO?
As far as I know, only the constitution (so to speak) and the rules THEY THEMSELVES set FOR THEMSELVES, and this court fails at pretty much ALL of that constantly.
The way I understand it is that each answers to each other, so none has more power than the other.
But with the immunity deal the Supreme Court gave to the President while in office, that pushes the balance of power toward the Executive. No longer equal powers among the three branches.
Disagree. By definition (in the Constitution) judges are nominated by the President & approved by vote in the Senate.
Purpose of "checks & balances" is no branch is completely independent of others. Actual problem here is Congress & maybe SCOTUS is allowing executive to act almost too independently
They're appointed & left to do basically whatever they want, setting their own ETHICS rules & everything. What checks are on their power other than the initial nomination process for a LIFETIME seat?
"Almost" too independently? Seems like *absolute immunity* for "official acts" is more than almost.
Impeachment, yes, but they don't "pass new laws". If they don't agree w/ the way a law is written, the portions that are seen as unconstitutional are stricken. Impeachment has proven to be pretty well impotent with no less than ½ a govt that's corrupt, so there's that. They still govern themselves.
Well John your court has betrayed the American people-you have without reservation shown bias/allegiance to trump (remember presidential immunity, trump’s theft of classified documents, & the trump insurrection). This is what a corrupt court looks like-as chief justice this is on you! You own this!
Our system of government only works well when men and women of honor participate. What the conservative (really it’s reactionary) movement has willfully done with increasingly focused determination since at least 1980 is to break public trust in government in order to break government in their imij…
I made the monster in full cognizance of who & what he would become. I just thought he’d ravage liberal villages, not my beautiful city that sits behind marble walls & under lofty inscriptions about justice to which I selectively adhere if doing so doesn’t hurt rich, pretend religious people.
I agree with what Robert’s has said, but given that, he never mentioned that SCOTUS could enact law by creating a decision out of whole cloth to give the president total immunity for any acts taken as a core presidential duty. You can’t find that in the Constitution anywhere.
Yeah, Trump has already told the Supreme Court he doesn’t intend to comply with their rulings, so maybe they should be a little more stern in the language of their decisions
Will somebody please remind that dick head Roberts that this is mostly his doing? Talk about a leopard eating your face. Scotus has ruled itself to be completely unnecessary and underneath the power of the president.
That's what they ruled. I don't want to him say hear a fucking word about it.
I would love to hear John Roberts have to provide a direct answer to that question. Of all the terrible decisions his court has forced upon us, that one is the least defensible, IMO.
Well, here we go - put up or shut-up time, Bob. Are you going to honor your oaths of office - all of your friends there, as well? Or are you gonna just chuck that stuff for the buckaroos ya gonna snatch?
An official act is calling for and inciting a violent attack on our democracy, allowing the perpetrators to go free, and paying them “compensation” money using Americans’ tax dollars.
Lip service. Roberts has labored quietly for most of his career for a unitary executive. Did he really believe that making the Constitution and Congress redundant would stop there and leave the judiciary untouched? Really?
And Trump vs. United States was the cherry on top. Now, billionaires can pay for a president who will break the law to give them what they want because no one can hold him accountable.
Sure, that kind of corruption COULD happen, but surely it never will. Right, Roberts?
Roberts you start down this dark road. Roberts, Kavanaugh & Barrett represented George Bush to steal the 2000 election from Al Gore. Robert’s shaped the outcome of Citizen United. He oversaw the end of Women’s Right to Abortion. Then Gave Trump Immunity. What did Roberts expect would happen?
Were these justices so involved in legal study during their education that they neglected studying history?Or is the arrogance so ingrained they thought their authority wouldn't be overturned?Whatever the reason,they GAVE AWAY their independence with tRump's immunity ruling,and WE are paying for it.
The actual nerve of this (man) to say he can’t take my power, even when I gave it away to him! I don’t know if I can think anymore, it seems to hurt my brain! 🤷♀️🤔
Too bad you and your judicial overlords gave him a “get out of jail free” card…now who looks like the fool? Good luck staying independent from the White House.
You might have thought of that before you handed monarchical powers over to someone who thinks his power resides in bluster, bullying, and orange face paint.
He’s a fool. He literally created this disaster from the ether. Presidential immunity makes no sense and is un-American and Trump is now using it as cover for all this illegal shit.
Citizens United will go down in history as one of the worst decisions the Supreme Court has ever made. Allowing essentially no limits on financial contributions to sway elections has made it loss to manipulate results with enough money and tilt power to the few.
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You unleashed a malignancy onto the country.
SCOTUS made themselves useless at that moment!
This version of Trump was the only possible outcome from their stupidity.
Same court.. (checks notes); gives immunity to one branch... Ahem... One man, thinking he was on the same page in the "redistribution" of power.. finds out what the cult of personality is really capable of when it no longer needs legitimacy
Fuck Chief Justice Roberts. He owns this shit.
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What a travesty of a Supreme Court he has made.
What did Roberts say about the Republican "Justices" who perjured themselves regarding Abortion during their Senate Confirmation hearings?
I said....
Oh.
So much for the 1st Amendment.
The GOP Congress and SCOTUS have rendered themselves obsolete. The 🍊🤡 ignores SCOTUS and his executive orders have made the GOP controlled Congress useless.
Roberts is largely responsible for the mess this country is in.
Could this be brought back to SCOTUS for review/overturn? If yes, how do we get this going?
It's shocking this guy's occupying the position he's in. Ffs, it's *independence" full stop.
Why are we even entertaining this whole president controlling the courts thing? A more effective retort would be Go F yourself, that’s not happening.
Once your irrelevance has been solidified you become 100% vulnerable just like "We the People" who you didn't bother to listen to, but instead excused the Court's bad behavior and bad decision making.
SCOTUS didn't realize that the more power they gave to the President (and the GOP in general) the more they were eroding their own and driving the court to irrelevance.
this is the best legal mind we have to lead this Republic's foundational laws??
Time for an Overhaul of SCOTUS
When you gonna start doing it?
He's seemingly quite shocked about his judiciary being caught in the conflagration he brought the napalm to.
As far as I’m concerned, all this post-President-is-King ruling squealing from Roberts is him trying to set up plausible deniability that he’s not on the take from DJT & his handlers.
There’s no way he’s too dumb to have understood what he did. It wasn’t even a 2D chess move.
extreme court.FAFO now
How about they start with that!
They created the monster.. and then let him out of his cage.
Until & unless they reverse their decision, they're useless!
Time to take the case back to SCOTUS and see if they double down!
But that immunity decision was the straw that broke the camel's back, and stopped shitler from being sent to prison.
And the rest is history! 😞
A whittle tiny bit ?? Is that ok king orangutan?
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Al Prazolam.
Truly a stained legacy.
But he's owned by someone other than iDJT so he only means independent of the president and congress. Not his masters.
3 separate, distinct branches of government, designed to check/balance the other 2, merged into 1 corrupt oligarchy, with half of America cheering.
I do not consent to absolute despotism & taxation without representation.
This regime is illegitimate.
#NQNQ247
The age of humanity has been “the age of Warlords.” Many generations have fought for the expansion of the rights & protections promised in the…
It is our turn.
I invoke the original intent of the Declaration of Independence & refuse consent to absolute despotism & taxation without representation.
#NQNQ247
I honestly believe this. They've got the tiger by the tail to get into power, and now they're realising they're fucked and can't try to run away.
And these people watching and jeering while old ladies being dragged out of Town Halls instead of obstructing the Brownshirts or even beating them into a quivering red mass make me sick.
No mfker. It requires TOTAL independence. That's why SCOTUS posts are permanent. They're supposed to be immune to politics.
But I guess the lure of bribes plus the fear of "the stick" is too large, eh?
Then we're back to political campaigning for SCOTUS seats.
No. Dems need to do more than check the boxes when confirming these fascists
They need to look at their court decisions, and just go "No. Nope. NEXT" instead of asking them questions and ASSUMING THEY'RE TELLING THE TRUTH
It’s called a Kingdom.
What the hell did you think was going to happen when you gave a lying Mob Boss immunity?
Thank you again for NOTHING
maybe you & your posse of conservative judges should not have given trump unfettered power!
“With fear for our democracy - I dissent”
Judge Sotomayer
As far as I know, only the constitution (so to speak) and the rules THEY THEMSELVES set FOR THEMSELVES, and this court fails at pretty much ALL of that constantly.
But with the immunity deal the Supreme Court gave to the President while in office, that pushes the balance of power toward the Executive. No longer equal powers among the three branches.
Purpose of "checks & balances" is no branch is completely independent of others. Actual problem here is Congress & maybe SCOTUS is allowing executive to act almost too independently
"Almost" too independently? Seems like *absolute immunity* for "official acts" is more than almost.
2. Judges can be impeached.
You are familiar with the Constitution right?
I hope you don't mind if I leave this clarification as my final comment here. Thanks for engaging though.
Pretty much anything the president does to limit the judiciary can be considered an immune official act.
Welcome to the reality of your new boss, your beloved Unitary Executive.
I believe trump said that to Robert’s!
That's what they ruled. I don't want to him say hear a fucking word about it.
Sure, that kind of corruption COULD happen, but surely it never will. Right, Roberts?