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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, on Feb. 22 issued a memo to his colleagues urging them not only to take up an appeal from former President Donald Trump over his immunity claim, but also to rule in favor of granting him that immunity.

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"I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently" from the appeals court, he wrote in the memo leaked to the New York Times, essentially suggesting the court would shield Trump from certain charges and the appellate court's decision greenlighting his 2020 election interference trial.

The document, along with other justices' memos, accounts of the proceedings and testimony from sources the Times interviewed, offers a window into Roberts' high level of involvement in several cases that benefited Trump and ultimately helped him climb out of a mire of legal troubles that threatened to upend his 2024 presidential campaign.

According to the Times, his handling of the cases surprised other justices in a court where six of the nine members have been appointed by Republican presidents. Three of them were appointed by Trump."

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I'm shocked, I tells ya!

The Chief Justice writing new law tailored for his criminal traitor Benefactor in Chief.

Say it ain't so !

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-16 07:13 PM | Reply

A GQP scotus corrupt?

If I woke up with head glued to rug I couldn't be more surprised.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-17 06:49 AM | Reply

Roberts and the Roberts Court, with its majority of howling legal mediocrities, doing what the bought-and-paid-for are supposed to do: watch out for Trump's interests at their investor-masters' behest.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-17 06:54 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Democrats have to repair the court if they want to save america. It has been totally and undemocratically captured by putin's fascist cult.

The fact that we are just IGNORING what the 14th ammendment says about being ineligible to run for office if you've given comfort or aid to insurrectionists, means that this court is completely corrupt. But it also means that we can simply ignore parts of the constitution we don't like.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-17 02:53 PM | Reply

most Americans, not in comas have known how corrupt Roberts is since Bush v Gpre in 2000! Now he makes it official.Grounds for immediaye impeachment.Severl others need to join him. This will be a better country when we rid ourselvea of these corrupt pieces of filth

#5 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-17 04:29 PM | Reply

It's finally been revealed. Roberts, who once vowed that he would not let HIS Supreme Court be used as a political football, did in fact, become the skunk behind the stink that's permeated the court which is now (laughingly) still called "supreme."

What surprises me is that Roberts would slip up and put it in writing.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-09-17 06:34 PM | Reply

I also remember when Roberts said that all of the Judges voted independently and that he had no influence over their decisions.

Turns out, Roberts was lying.

Turns out, the conservatives were playing Follow the Leader on Trump's immunity case.

#7 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-09-18 03:02 AM | Reply

@#6 ... Roberts, who once vowed that he would not let HIS Supreme Court be used as a political football ...

The Tragedy of John Roberts (July 2023)
www.nytimes.com

... In June 2012, at the end of a contentious Supreme Court term that decided, among other things, the fate of the Affordable Care Act, Chief Justice John Roberts prepared to leave for Malta, to teach a course on the court. "Malta, as you know, is an impregnable island fortress," he joked on the eve of his trip. "It seemed like a good idea."

Eleven years later, Malta no doubt retains its allure. The term that just ended must have been a torment for the chief. The court's popularity has plunged to record lows; its members bicker on and off the bench; calls for the court to be packed are commonplace. Such circumstances would pain any chief justice, this one more than most. From the start of his tenure in 2005, he has painted himself as an institutionalist whose paramount concern is the court's integrity. He conducts himself accordingly: He is decorous, almost regal; he speaks of moderation and judicial minimalism.

He keeps a sovereign's distance from modern life. In 1867, in a classic book on the English constitution, Walter Bagehot wrote that in times of change, "the most imposing institutions of mankind" maintain influence by demonstrating an "inherent dignity." It is ironic, perhaps bitterly so, that a collapse in public esteem has become a hallmark of the Roberts court. Rarely, in recent decades, has the institution seemed less worthy of reverence.

The chief justice is portrayed by some as a tragic figure, powerless to save his court from itself. ...



#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-18 03:28 AM | Reply

LAMP

FTA

"The chief justice is portrayed by some as a tragic figure, powerless to save his court from itself."

Not any more. He bent the knee. It's a "supreme" court now in name only.

#9 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-09-18 07:25 AM | Reply

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