Homeboy has been incrementally gutting the voting rights act as part of the Republican agenda for 40+ years.

https://theprogressivemedia.substack.com/p/john-roberts-spent-44-years-killing

Fuck this partisan sack garbler:

Oh fuck all the way off you political hack. You’re playing for a very specific team, and that team is not us.

Given everything they have done, why pretend anymore? I honestly don't know who they are trying to impress. They know they are succeeding at eroding democracy. Congrats. You're on the team now. So wear your T-shirt.

Does anyone still remember that the Supreme Court - which already included a certain Clarence Thomas at the time -ensured during the 2000 election that the votes in Florida would not be recounted, thereby guaranteeing that Bush Jr. would become president?

I would certainly say that this is exactly how a political actor behaves.

The Republican justices thought December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas's gerrymandering that favored white poeple/Republicans, but somehow last week wasn't too close to the election to shoot down Louisiana's changes that boosted minorities. That's pretty clearly policy at work, not the law.

No one is accusing them of being political actors. That's not how the court system works. The fact that he claims that is an effort to play everyone for fools.

They are however partisan hacks.

Undoing decades of settled law to strip rights from women, minorities, and everyone else. You're damn right we view you as political. You're a disgrace to the law and should be impeached yesterday.

How fucking patronising.

The most political Supreme Court justice is trying to claim he's not? He can pound his shadow docket up his ass sideways.

His name will forever represent the most corrupt SCOTUS in history, and he's trying to mitigate that despicable legacy.

I used to think that we had to add another 4 seats to the SCOTUS, but I no longer believe that. Now I think we need to add 20 seats to the Supreme Court.

We have allowed SCOTUS to remain so small so that one bad-faith president can negatively alter the course of the nation for half a century. We should increase it to 29 or 31, with rolling term limits, so every president gets to appoint a handful, but never enough to throw off the balance to any great degree.

Just a reminder that between his Ivy League connections, his Reagan/Bush services, and Chief Justice Rehnquist's untimely demise, Mr. Non-Political-Actor here went from mere well-placed attorney to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in less than five years, mostly by way of his work on Bush v. Gore in 2000.

Not a political actor, lol.

Roberts belief that he can salvage the courts reputation is deeply pathetic. He wiped his ass with the law and made the supremes courts corruption even more brazen.

Is it true?

Could I really have lost touch with the tenets of this office?

No. it's the citizens who are wrong.

Awww, did some nasty journalist say that you volunteer to wear a leash for Trump daily? Diddums. You used to think you were cleverly manipulating the constitution behind the scenes for your own political ends and were being subtle about it, but now everyone says you're his bitch and you know full well he's a moron who shouldn't be in charge of you, so you lost any self respect you ever had because you realised Trump has no less contempt for you than he has for any temporarily useful stupid idiot who swallowed his lies and was used by him to cement power and stroke his own ego.

We know Roberts isnt playing politics. He thinks he's a priest-king who can dictate his own beliefs as inarguable decree.

It would be one thing if he followed the history of the court and was bound by precedent, but letting six functionaries who were specifically asked about abortion and made unambiguous promises to respect it overturn the recognized right of bodily autonomy has made every right Americans enjoy subject to judicial nullification

The only sane thing is to specifically take away judicial supremacy, and restore the unelected academics to a subordinate role deferential to the actually elected branches of our government. Sure, wed essentially give up any hope of free speech or marriage rights or religious liberty being out of the each of Congress, but better a Congress who can be voted out than judges who arent protecting those rights anyway.

Roberts, in a hot-dog costume, trying to figure out who did this

I wonder if he genuinely thinks this. Surely he'd have to if he bothered to say so. I can't imagine a cynical political actor would waste his energy explaining himself to a public that he isn't accountable to. Thomas and Alito for instance don't really say jack shit, because they don't care what you think.

Spare us your denial asshole. We are knee deep in the bullshit you have created already.

I often wonder if they believe this themselves, or if they just cynically say crap like this out of contempt for people.

It's true that they're not political actors. They're political whores. And they're not even high-priced whores.

If they were making judgements based on laws and logic then they would regularly have unanimous decisions.

The fact that for each case that comes before them, it's almost always a split decision down predictable conservative/liberal lines means that Roberts is full of shit.

Being the leader of the highest tier of the government's judiciary branch makes everything you do or say political, Johnny-Boy.

Is anyone else getting mighty tired of that "I don't do politics" shtick in general? I know I am. Even more so in a time where literal nazis are using it to cover up their ideological praxis.

misconceptions held by the American people that he and his colleagues are “political actors” who are making decisions based on policy, not law.

Maybe if they stopped acting like they were making decisions based in political ideology instead of law, the American people might have those opinions...

Gosh, of only there was a way to dispel this supposed "wrong" view...

If it walks, talks and looks like a political shill...

Idiot.

Suuure Johnny.

SCOTUS told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

It was its final, most essential command.

Put your money where your mouth is.

Oh, then give us back voting rights, abortion, and presidential accountability

Traitor says what?

Fucking liar, Roberts is.

If you don't want to be seen as political actors, don't act like political actors.

So stop acting politically, John.

I’m upset that I view Roberts as a dude who doesn’t have my balls on his chin.

Well their work sure as fuck isn’t based on objectivity.

walks line a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck... claims it's a zebra.

Oh, go fuck yourself, Roberts, you right-wing cuck!