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Chief Justice John Roberts says that hostility toward judges has ‘got to stop’

https://lemmy.world/post/44407468

Chief Justice John Roberts says that hostility toward judges has ‘got to stop’ - Lemmy.World

Chief Justice John Roberts warned against personal attacks on the judiciary, telling an audience Tuesday that while criticism of opinions is fair game, “personally directed hostility” is dangerous and must stop. Roberts did not mention Donald Trump by name and, as he so often does, he went out of his way to stress that the attacks he was referring to were coming from “not just any one political perspective.” However, the chief justice’s admonishment came weeks after Trump said that justices who ruled against his sweeping tariffs were an “embarrassment to their families.”

Mar 18 at 2:27amWeb
Show threadArchangel1313Mar 18
Maybe they need to start doing their jobs, first.
Show threadiltoroargentoMar 18
Judges have always been a toss up in the US. Most of the time, their job has been taking bribes and protecting the interests of the orphan crushing rich.
Show threaddhorkMar 18

Sir! You offend me. Those judges do not take bribes. That would be illegal!

They take gratuities. See? Those are totally different.

Show threadcriss_crossMar 18
And RVs.
Show threadcaptainlezbianMar 18
Oh and like you haven’t given your hairstylist an RV in exchange for good service
Show threadcriss_crossMar 18

You insult me!

Current tipping culture is 20%. I give an RV and 1/5 of another RV for good service.

Show threadEldritchMar 18
Thomas would take great offense.
John Oliver to Clarence Thomas: Drive Away from SCOTUS in a New, $2.4 Million Motorcoach!

Clarence Thomas reportedly takes dubious gifts from billionaires with interests before the Supreme Court; Oliver offered him millions to leave SCOTUS.

Rolling Stone
Show threadjustalittleguyMar 18
Idk man maybe you shouldn’t have given immunity to the guy who’s given to attacking anyone who doesn’t bend over and take his micro dick
Show threadcriss_crossMar 18
My god is that the consequences of my own actions I hear?!?!??!?
Show threadtmyakalMar 18

Justice Roberts sowing: Hahaha! Holy shit, this is awesome!

Justice Roberts reaping: Oh, what the fuck? This fucking sucks.!

Show threadI_JediMar 18
It’s funny how evidence always tends to disappear…
Show threadLemmyngMar 18
The hostility will continue until immunity is removed.
Show threadTJC-Mar 18
@MicroWave
Tell it to the Dear Leader who you emboldened with immunity.
Show threadwhataluteMar 18
Maybe if Roberts hadn’t been so busy sucking off daddy donvict over the years then trump wouldn’t have built up his insane expectation that the Supreme Court is there to do his bidding. But of course to Roberts…it’s really only the people tired of being forced to witness to all of his court’s dick sucking who are big meanies to him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes Roberts.
Show threadTheTimeKnifeMar 18
Roberts is such a dishonest jackass.
Show threadToiletFlushShowerScreamMar 18
It’s nice to see roberts admit he’s turned the court completely away from the Constitution and is now purely a political actor serving as the activist for Republicans. He deserves every hostility he gets from every American he has betrayed in order to enrich himself and his buddies. Families are suffering because of him, and he doesn’t think he deserves their hate?
Show threadBlumpkinheadMar 18
Drop dead you traitorous cunt.
Show threadsantaMar 18
Actually, it doesn’t. Is it illegal?
Show threadBluegrass_AddictMar 18
I think think that individual cares about laws anyways
Show threadGates9Mar 18
The Supreme Court is illegitimate
Show threadBigMacHoleMar 18
Hmm! Has he THOUGHT about making Rulings using the Constitution to STOP the Attacks? That MIGHT Work?
Show threadClentMar 18
Lifetime appointments make second amendment solutions the only recource for citizens.
Show threadsantaMar 18
He should start a group. Do zoom calls. Make signs. Hats. Shirts. Protesting stuff.
Show threadshittydwarfMar 18
But not black shirts, thats terrorism
Show threadkreskinMar 18
He can go fuck himself.
Show threadDarbageMar 18
The dogshit decisions have got to stop
Show threadEvilBitMar 18
Surely small, regular violences committed by one person toward 340,000,000 people merit a large violence against that one person in retaliation?
Show threadphutatoriusMar 18
Systematic dismantling of democracy is not a small violence.
Show threadEvilBitMar 18
Divided up among the hundreds of millions of individuals, it becomes small in a relative sense. Relative to something like the murder of an individual, the impact of dismantling democracy is small and protracted, but the largeness of the violence in aggregate is real and what my original post alludes to in applying it to an individual.
Show threadBassTurdMar 18
Maybe eat shit fuck face.
Show threadGhysteMar 18

John Roberts can go fuck himself.

It deserves saying more than once.

Show threadHopeOfTheGunbladeMar 18
Stop requisitioning hostility then, materfucker.
Show threadBonesince1997Mar 18
Seems as though those who turn hostilities toward society find society turning hostilities toward them. Stop protecting a lawless, pedophile wannabe king. The Roberts court is a treasonous embarrassment.
Show threadturdburglarMar 18

or else what?

eat a shit pie, enabler.

Show threadAlecSadlerMar 18
I would submit that hostility towards conservative judges needs to increase.
Show threadFuglyDuckMar 18

traitors that need impeaching, conviction and imprisonment for the rest of their pathetic life.

any one going along with Trump’s nazis thing (including roberts.)

But I suspect Roberts is talking about conservatives calling pizza shops and having them deliver pizzas to justices as a form of intimidation, as well as the straight up threats, etc.

and he is right, that needs to stop.

Show threadDanarchyMar 18
Actually, feeling a way about another citizen for betraying the shared values we were taught, irrespective of that citizens education or judiscial ascenency, is dope as shit!
Show threadRetail4068Mar 18

Ohhhh is Roberts afraid of the consequences of his actions? 

On another note. Drones are incredibly easy to access and can deliver a payload quite easily.

Show threadDidntdoit71Mar 18
Roberts is a direct cause of this hostility…because he chose partisan political play over protecting human rights and upholding the constitution as written. He played the game for a dancing orange wannabe emperor. He lost the respect of the world and history. He can go fuck himself.
Show threadBeardededSquidwardMar 19
Started before this with W.
Show threadAngryRedHerringMar 20

This is what happens when you sell your soul to the devil. Remember during Trump one, when Kennedy stepped down to make room for Kavanaugh? And right after the Kavanaugh swearing, Trump and Kennedy are walking away from the podium, and Trump says something-- and Kennedy stops dead in his tracks, saying basically “Wait what?”

www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/…/4754791

I’m still waiting to hear about a lip reader telling people what was being said there, at least as much as can be seen. At the time the speculation was that Trump pulled strings to get Kennedy’s son out of some trouble (that I forget) in exchange for Kennedy stepping down early to make room for Kavanaugh. And in that clip it looks like mere seconds after the Kavanaugh announcement, Kennedy found out just how much Trump’s word was worth.

You see his hand go up, “Relax, guy!”

Show threadDeaconMar 18

He will go down as a justice with the same strength of character as wet tissue.

He’s a coward who is directly culpable for everything we are going through right now.

Show threadRememberTheApollo_Mar 18
Stop inconveniencing me with thoughts that have a chance of making me feel like what I’m doing may not be right.
Show threadnondescripthandleMar 18
Nah. Seems very warranted to me tbh.
Show threadmcvMar 18
If you don’t like criticism, don’t run the most corrupt Supreme Court ever.
Show threadMeeechMar 18
But this is what you worked so hard to allow John.
Show threadI_Has_A_HatMar 18

Simple solution Johnny,

Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 19
my solution is a little different
Show threadAngryRedHerringMar 20
Big difference is that there’s still debate over Dwyer’s guilt or innocence
Show threadMinnesotaGoddamMar 20
It was a nice shot tho
Show threadGalacticGrapefruitMar 18
Where’s Sweeney Todd when you need him?
Show threadentropiclyclaudeMar 18
Kill yourself John
Show threadWoodScientistMar 18
I’m hoping for a long debilitating illness instead. That way he doesn’t just get replaced immediately with another fascist.
Show threadproleMar 18

And end up with Chief Justice Ted Cruz?

No thanks.

Show threadentropiclyclaudeMar 19
Why not both suicide?
Show threadAngryRedHerringMar 20
I would never wish such a thing upon us, but there is some humor in imagining Thomas, Alito, Roberts, et al., stuck in the same room with the legendarily insufferable Cruz… FOR LIFE
Show threadoopsgodisdeadmybadMar 18

How about we increase hostility instead?

Fucking prick

Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkMar 18
Hopefully the hostility has just started.
Show threadGutterRat42Mar 18
Stop sucking Trump’s dick and disregarding precedent, and maybe it’ll stop
Show threadcaptainlezbianMar 18
You shit your bed, now you gotta lie in it or change the damn sheets Roberts