And yet Roberts thinks viewing this court as absolute dogs*^# is inappropriate and "dangerous."

Chief Justice John Roberts was referring to personally directed hostility toward judges and justices, which he described as "dangerous" during a March 17, 2026, appearance at Rice University. While he did not mention any specific individual by name, his remarks were widely seen as a response to recent verbal attacks by President Donald Trump against the judiciary.

Roberts made several distinctions regarding the nature of this hostility:

* Personal vs. Legal Scrutiny: He stated that while criticism of judicial opinions "comes with the territory" and is "healthy," it becomes a "problem" and "quite dangerous" when it shifts from legal analysis to attacking individual personalities.

* Recent Attacks by Trump: The comments followed a series of social media posts by Trump on March 15, 2026, in which he called the Supreme Court a "weaponized and unjust Political Organization" after they struck down his global tariffs. Trump also personally attacked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, calling him "wacky, nasty, crooked and totally out of control".

* Bipartisan Scope: Roberts was careful to note that such hostility is not limited to "any one political perspective," addressing the broader trend of rising threats against the federal judiciary.

"Well, obviously you know best. I mean, he really does need more distractions, eh?

Taking DJT seriously as a threat to the nation isn't being distracted, it's being more careful after learning lessons of the recent past."

After all this time, you still haven't figured out his MO. He's dictating to you which things to focus your energy on in the present moment, even though there's nothing you can do right now about something that might happen in 2028 (if he's even still around by then).

On a related note, some ICE agents have reportedly received emails reminding them that, according to their contracts, they are "eligible" for deployment overseas. So it will be very convenient if they are already at the airport.

'And yet many many people, especially on the left, do not believe him. They simply say, "Well, that's not possible according to the US Constitution. Therefore, he's not going to try."'

Does anyone here know anyone who's actually said this, especially on the left? Honestly, I'd be surprised.

"Or even if he does try, it's not going to work."

Last time he did it in a half-assed way to try to maintain plausible deniability and portray himself as the victim afterwards. Of course, he's been a lot more aggressive in with his second term compared to his first. It's something people should take seriously, but at this point, 2.5 years out, it's basically just a distraction to divert attention away from other things.

"No one should be surprised."

Exactly. Only the freshest noobs who haven't paid any attention to current events until now would be surprised by this.

Trump reminds me a lot of Rush Limbaugh, who took glee at condemning other people as "worthless shreds of human debris" when they died. These people write their own epitaphs.

Must have been a suicide. The only thing that could kill Chuck Norris is if he gave himself a roundhouse kick to the head.

"Damn, Jeff/Bill,
do you have to effing lie about EVERYTHING?"

As far as I can tell, the only reason some of these people post here is because they think they're doing a clever parody of how they perceive "liberals", that they're somehow pwning them by illustrating their "hypocwithy"; but in effect they're acting exactly the regular posters that they loathe. Ditto to many of the partisans on the left here who only exist react to "the other side".

"So yeah, old white dudes, you're good in your black sweats. Until you show up to the riot and throw mortar fireworks at police. That won't go well for you."

People who engage in violence should have the book thrown at them for those acts, but adding on a bogus charge for wearing black is at least as dubious as many of the enhanced 'hate crime' charges that real conservatives have always decried.

No matter which way it's going, the pendulum always swings in the direction of stupid. A pox on all your partisan houses.

Misleading headline. I was expecting something much more gruesome before I opened the thread.

This is just basically the contemporary version of saying "it's the computer's fault" to avoid taking any human responsibility.

They're going to need the chairs to debate Invisible Obama at the next convention.

A very odd question for a reporter to ask. Was there more context?

"We've attacked 8 different countries in the last year."

Most of the ones you're probably referring to include military actions which were done in coordination with the governments of those countries.

"No other nation causes more deaths and terror than America."

You're going to have to back that up with some numbers, including the timeframe you're pulling those numbers from.

"Damn it Nixon. I just snorted hot coffee all over my t-shirt."

The funny thing is you weren't even drinking coffee, nor wearing a t-shirt.

"We're beginning to get the American people to think that deporting people is wrong. It's the exact opposite," Tillis told Noem during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week.

"The way you're going about deporting them is wrong, the fact that you can't admit to a mistake, which looks like under investigation, it's going to prove that Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti probably should not have been shot in the face and in the back," he said.

If people are buying the veterinary grade of any drug for personal use, that says a lot more about the state of the US health system than anything else. But again, people have throwing around the "horse paste" label regularly outside of that specific context.

By the way, congratulations on winning the Who Can Be A Bigger ----- game with LHT.

"Invermecin is a cult object."

Hitler was a vegetarian and an artist.

Millions of people are prescribed ivermectin each year for its proper use. But hey, let's stigmatize all of them and put people who actually need it in danger by stigmatizing the drug itself.

------- hypocrites.

"People calling it horse paste are doing so as a mockery of people who are so desperate to follow this crackpottery they have gone to farm supply stores and purchases veterinary formulations to take."

People calling it "horse paste" are not talking about specific instances of people doing that, at least not in the contexts where I've seen them repeatedly do it. It is hypocritically spreading misinformation about the drug. The World Health Organization includes it on its Model List of Essential Medicines for humans. It's one of many medications that have been used in both humans and animals, so calling it "horse paste" is as dumb as calling antibiotics a farm animal drug.

"American Citizen's Safety"

Which one?