Friday, November 23, 2018

Did Chief Justice Roberts just urinate on my leg?

Discussing the Ninth Circuit Court in California

John Dietrich  Chief Justice John Roberts recently wrote, "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."  
"The chief justice knows that this is not true, and I find it extremely insulting that he believes that I am stupid enough to believe it.  As he relieved himself on my leg, he told me it was raining.  Roberts's statement was a response to President Trump's criticism of "Obama judges" who ruled against the administration.
"The president replied, "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'[.]"
"Dov Fischer at the American Spectator claimed, "[I]t sounds ridiculous – even borderline delusional – to deny that today's federal judiciary is chock-full of Obama judges and Clinton judges on a mission to stop President Trump's agenda."  
"Justice Roberts is not delusional.
"Justices do not have the name of the president who nominated them in their titles.  In this respect only, Justice Roberts is correct.  However, they generally reflect the philosophy of the president who nominated them.  Robert Barnes of the Washington Post remarked, "[S]tudies show there are clear ideological differences between judges nominated by presidents of different parties."  Do we actually need studies to illustrate this?  . . . 

Kellyanne Conway’s attorney husband went toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump on Thursday, this time defending the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals



Roberts has remained silent as a series of outrageous decisions from federal district judges has substituted a single judge's decision on what the POTUS should do for the authority granted to the chief executive by the Constitution.
Another time that the chief justice remained silent happened in the 2010 State of the Union Address, when President Obama explicitly attacked the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United, and his colleague, Justice Alito, mouthed "Not true," only to be rebuked by many commentators.

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