My post from another thread:
Ahem. Hey! Chief Justice Roberts! Should a Supreme Court Justice EVER be ruling on the basis of policy differences? Thought that wasn’t in your purview.
CJR, you may be technically correct that a SCJ is not beholden to the President who nominated them, the most recent example is the “Trump” judge who let Acosta back in the White House. But you must concede that there are activist judges, liberal judges, conservative judges, strict constructionists ... I’ll bet you could make a list. Try this, CJR: after you make that list, put the name of the President who appointed them next to their name.
What you have done, Chief Justice Roberts, is to repeat the common mistake of interpreting President Trump’s remarks literally. Hey, he wasn’t talking to YOU, he was talking to US. And we knew EXACTLY what he meant.
The President who made the appointment is a good (albeit not perfect) indicator of whether or not a judge will be wont to legislate from the bench. We see it all the time in articles and even posts on forums, blogs, etc. “Appointed by President ____” is almost always present in the text. Name the President and we know from which philosophy came the ruling. And, yeah, it’s not supposed to be that way. BUT IT IS.
What you have done, Chief Justice Roberts, is to repeat the common mistake of interpreting President Trump’s remarks literally. Hey, he wasn’t talking to YOU, he was talking to US. And we knew EXACTLY what he meant.
Just shows how ignorant of how we interpret The Donald or protective his is of whatever they have hanging over him.