Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

‘We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.’
- Chief Justice John Roberts

An extraordinary response. That is, for its rarity, from the nation’s highest-ranking jurist.

Chief Justice John Roberts released a short statement to the Associated Press Wednesday, apparently provoked by Tuesday comments from President Trump, who told reporters outside the White House that he would file a “major complaint” against the federal judge — an “Obama judge,” he said — who temporarily blocked his administration from denying asylum to migrants who illegally cross the southern border.

An agitated Trump added that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which also previously blocked his executive order banning immigration from several Muslim-majority countries, was a “disgrace.” Trump has issued 31 executive orders in 2018, according to the Federal Register.

The conservative Roberts, a George W. Bush nominee, concluded his statement simply, with a nod to the impending holiday and the balance of power: “That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chief-justice-roberts-rebukes-trump-we-do-not-have-obama-judges-or-trump-judges-bush-judges-or-clinton-judges-2018-11-21

EyeSawYou

I agree with Chief Justice Roberts, whats your point with posting all this trivial nonsense? No life I take it. Trump lives in your hear 24/7/365 days a year rent free. lol

Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

You're slow, aren't you. Or, you didn't hear? Your Nicompoop-in-Chief cult hero claimed there are "Obama judges" when he disagrees with the courts.

Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

"No life I take it. Trump lives in your hear 24/7/365 days a year rent free. lol"

Oh the irony!

This from the troll who has no life, because I apparently live in his head 24/7/365 days a year rent free...lol!

LOLOLOL

EyeSawYou

ummm...didnt I just say that I agreed with Justice Roberts?

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

Way to go Donny. Go piss off the judges and see how that works for you.

EyeSawYou

Are you now implying the SC Justices will judge partially because of what Trump said??

Frank T Loc: New York, NY

I think when you insult a judges integrity without proof, you do so at your own peril.
On the bright side for old Pumpkinhead is that he can always count on the I Love Beer Justice to be on his side as he's already been bought and paid for.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

"My judges, under my 'on the ground' leadership, would have killed Osama way sooner. Wouldn't that have been nice?" Lord Lairy

hasslichhog

[quote=Keenan]‘We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.’
- Chief Justice John Roberts

"An extraordinary response. That is, for its rarity, from the nation’s highest-ranking jurist."
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Another judicial hypocrite is Chief Justice John Roberts

Chuck Grassley to Chief Justice John Roberts: You Rebuked Trump — but Sat Silent Through Obama’s Abuse

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts offered rare public criticism of the President of the United States on Wednesday when he pushed back against President Trump’s claim Tuesday that an “Obama judge” had blocked his effort to deny asylum to those entering the country illegally.

But as outgoing Senate Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) later noted, Roberts was silent when President Barack Obama attacked the Court during the State of the Union address in 2010:

"Chief Justice Roberts rebuked Trump for a comment he made about judge’s decision on asylum I don’t recall the Chief attacking Obama when that Prez rebuked Alito during a State of the Union."

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) November 21, 2018

Likewise, Roberts said nothing when Obama bullied the Supreme Court on numerous occasions — and even appeared to yield to Obama’s pressure.

In 2010, President Obama used his first State of the Union address to denounce the Court’s January 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case, which struck down restrictions on corporate political speech under the First Amendment.

With six of the nine justices sitting silently in the House of Representatives, Obama told the nation their ruling “will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”

Democrats leapt to their feet in applause. Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words, “Not true” — and never attended another State of the Union address.

But Roberts said and did nothing to defend the Court from Obama’s unprecedented assault on its independence.

In April 2012, when oral arguments in the Obamacare case (NFIB v. Sebelius) appeared to go against the administration, Obama warned the Supreme Court against overturning the law, attacking the very idea that “an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.” His aides later scrambled to explain that the president — once a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago — certainly accepted the idea of judicial review.

But Roberts did not defend the court’s prerogatives. In fact, Roberts buckled, effectively rewriting the law to save Obamacare — perhaps even reversing his original vote.

On Monday evening, Judge Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, an Obama appointee, issued a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from implementing President Trump’s November 9 proclamation that asylum requests would no longer be granted to those arriving in the U.S. illegally. In speaking to reporters, Trump criticized the decision of the “Obama judge,” adding that he considered it a “disgrace.”

On Tuesday, in response to queries from the Associated Press, Chief Justice Roberts said in a statement: “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.” His views were widely reported as a rebuke to the president himself.

In response, Trump tweeted — with unusually restrained language — that Roberts was wrong, and that President Obama’s appointees, along with the courts of the Ninth Circuit more generally, were reliably opposed to all of his immigration policies. That made those courts the forums of choice for radical left-wing groups favoring amnesty — and they were frequently wrong, he implied, as judged by how frequently they were reversed.

Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have “Obama judges,” and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. It would be great if the 9th Circuit was indeed an “independent judiciary,” but if it is why……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2018

…..are so many opposing view (on Border and Safety) cases filed there, and why are a vast number of those cases overturned. Please study the numbers, they are shocking. We need protection and security – these rulings are making our country unsafe! Very dangerous and unwise!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2018

Trump later added:

“79% of these decisions have been overturned in the 9th Circuit.” @FoxNews A terrible, costly and dangerous disgrace. It has become a dumping ground for certain lawyers looking for easy wins and delays. Much talk over dividing up the 9th Circuit into 2 or 3 Circuits. Too big!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2018

Though Trump has often criticized judges, raising concerns during the election about his commitment to judicial independence, in practice he has arguably shown greater deference to the courts than Obama, even earning praise from the judge who stopped the family separation policy at the border.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

[quote=hasslichhog]


"... in practice he has arguably shown greater deference to the courts than Obama, ... " hasslichhog

You people say it and you people believe it in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence.


'Citizens United' was the moment the oligarch's said out loud ... "We own you!"