The chief justice defends court’s impartiality after decisions on abortion, presidential immunity and voting rights
US chief justice John Roberts has insisted supreme court judges are not “political actors” amid outrage over its recent decision undermining the Voting Right Act, and other moves that have benefited Donald Trump and his allies.
Roberts leads a court on which conservatives have held a six-justice majority since 2020, and handed down a series of decisions that have upended longstanding precedent and, in Trump’s second term, allowed many of his policies to take effect, at least temporarily.
Last week’s decision on the Voting Rights Act has greenlit a scramble by Republican-led states to enact new congressional maps that will break up districts drawn to elect Black lawmakers, who tend to be Democrats. That may amount to a major blow to the party’s long-term chances of controlling the US House of Representatives.
The court has also expanded use of a fast-track process known as the “shadow docket” to temporarily pause lower court rulings against the Trump administration, including his mass deportation policies and gutting of federal departments.
I can’t figure out who said it first to cite it, but there’s a saying that goes:
There are two genders: male and political.
Two races: white and political.
Two sexual orientations: straight and political.Well, for Roberts, there are two kinds of SCOTUS decisions: the ones he agrees with and “political.”
Texas gerrymandering case that would benefit Democrats in December: even though the map is unconstitutional we can’t change the map, it’s too close to an election.
Louisiana gerrymandering case this month that would benefit Republicans: the map must change because it’s unconstitutional!
John Roberts: We’Re NoT PoLiTiCaL!
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It was the Louisiana governor who decided to act on it, it wasn’t mandated by the court.
The court is still political, but in this case it wasn’t them.
No, it’s still on them.
The voters who initially challenged Louisiana’s map asked the justices last week to speed up the usual 32-day period between when a ruling is announced and when the Supreme Court clerk formally passes the decision down to a lower court. They wrote that “time is … of the essence” with this year’s elections approaching quickly, and said the issue needs to be returned to the district court so it can “oversee an orderly process” to fix Louisiana’s maps.
On Monday, the high court granted that request, writing that the court’s typical 32-day wait period is “subject to adjustment” by the justices.
The court broke with the normal timeline to let Louisiana hurry up and do its thing. When, again, December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas’s unconstitutional map.
Ah, well i was definitely wrong then.
Overturning the VRA was clearly political, and clearly done because republicans are losing.
Hope he gets flushed like the squeaky little shit he is.
In this case, John Roberts and company decided to issue the judgement immediately over the objection of the losing party. This move seemingly facilitates Louisiana’s effort to switch maps even after voting has already started.
Meanwhile, just 2-3 years ago, Roberts said that Alabama had to continue using illegal maps because we couldn’t disrupt an election cycle that was less than 6 months away. Just a few months ago, this court said that Texas can’t be forced to change maps 4 months before election.
The only real distinguishing principle that you could use to predict these decisions is which political party benefits from the decision.
Even if the VRA decision had some principled reasoning on the merits, all of this posturing on the timelines is clearly nakedly partisan.
All that, too, yeah.
though I’d state that the VRA had not only been good law, but settled as good law in the courts. Like, at this point, I wouldn’t be shocked if they decided the 13th amendment was something to be overturned.
The Supreme Court is illegitimate
John Roberts gaslights nation from the supreme court.
No no we’re not partisan you’re just looking at it wrong. Not like we twisted our arguments and disregard any precedent so our donors…I mean fellow citizens have proper rulings. Oh nice RV Clearance I hope I get the upgraded one.
Holy crap that RV was worth $270k in 1999? Damn…and that long ago. I hadn’t really read up on the story I thought the RV thing was more recent and well not as much as my townhouse was 10 years ago.
Embarrassment to the legal profession.
He’s the Radical Center. You aren’t even fully into embarrassment territory until you get over to Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas.
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining
He’s either lying to himself, or just lying to us, but there’s nothing about this court that’s apolitical.
Anyone who still thinks democracy is still even slightly alive in the USA is delusional.
Maybe if I were a legal scholar I’d be able to recall a historical Supreme Court that’s done more damage to the democratic process than the Roberts court, but I’m not so I can’t.
HAhahahahaha.
H2O molecule insists water isn’t wet after torrential storm.
John Roberts can be proud of his legacy, that he destroyed the American Empire and eroded the rule of law from the top down.
Yep, his legacy is magna carta levels of fuckery. It will be in history books forever.
Every single photo of Queef Justass Roberts looks like he fears for his life. Good. May he always have a reason to look over his shoulder for the rest of his miserable life.
He lyin
