Posted on 09/20/2014 11:52:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
While political partisanship flourishes in the halls of Congress, it has no place in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, the chief justice said Friday in remarks to Nebraska law students.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said he worries that the partisan rancor of the age has skewed the public understanding of the court’s role in government. During a 55-minute talk at the University of Nebraska College of Law, he stressed that the rule of law, rather than politics, drives the court’s decisions.
“We are not Democrats and Republicans in how we go about it,” he told an audience of 500, as estimated by university officials. “In nine years, I’ve never seen any sort of political issue like that arise between us.”
But Roberts said he understands how “an intelligent layperson” might think otherwise when they see the almost strict partisan confirmation votes on “eminently qualified” nominees such as Justice Elena Kagan, the newest member of the court.
He also said justices such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, approved with unanimous or near-unanimous votes by the U.S. Senate, wouldn’t stand a chance today. …
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That sounds nice but doesn’t reflect reality. Ginsberg is as political as they come in evaluating the “law”..
I didn’t expect Roberts to be truthful.
Federal Judges are overwhelmingly liberal Democrat lawyers.
They are partisan and political.
They do not adhere to the Constitution.
Instead, they use their power to force their ideology on America.
Jefferson warned the country about an out-of-control Judiciary.
If every decision by each justice was based on the Constitution and the “law” then every decision would be unanimous.
It’s obvious that isn’t the way it really works.
Exactly. What do you expect a SC Justice to say? That the Court is political? Ha! Same goes for all the lower courts. The judges all claim to be following the law.
It takes some real effort peel the cover off the charade. The court obtains its legitimacy the same way the political bodies do, by force of violence.
So Roberts is doing stand up comedy now
Let me just vomit now and get it over with. Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg who thinks the Constitution of South Africa is highly preferable to ours. Pleeez! Half of them want to take our guns. Roberts was either bought off or scared off on the Obamacare decision. They are just as corrupt as the Congress at this point.
I thought the same thing.
Wonder if anybody was rolling in the floor laughing?
Roberts is in complete denial. Sad.
“who me?”
Roberts is now tagged as both political and two-faced.
He has no business telling the White House how to make the legislation acceptable. Roberts should resign. He is just another Washington hack.
ROTFLOL
Tagline.
Roberts’ Obamacare ruling was one of the most political rulings in the history of the institution, and largely by his own admission. He was set to vote it down on the law, but he didn’t want to “tarnish” the legacy of the court, so he crafted a ruling that would allow him to uphold the law without voicing his support for it. That’s the definition of political behavior.
Similarly, a military draft is a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment in that it constitutes involuntary servitude. But in the event of a war, does anyone seriously think the Supreme Court is going to exclude one of the mechanisms for populating our military?
And let's look at this idiotic "separation of church and state" principle. Do you think anything but a Liberal court would interpret "So help me God" in a pledge as violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment?
The Court may not be strictly Democrat and Republican, but it is undeniably Liberal and Conservative.
Still trying to justify his blackmailed assisted vote for Obamacare.............It ain't gonna work John-Boy.
Shut up and “tax”, Mr. Chief Justice.
Indeed. But the Supreme Court has gone from being the intepreter of the law to being the primary driving force for changes in the law.
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