Chief justice unsettled by Obama's criticism of Supreme Court

[Ohio Joe]

John G. Roberts Jr. tells law students that the president's rebuke of a ruling on corporate campaign funding and the subsequent cheering at the State of the Union address were 'very troubling.'

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-roberts-speech10-2010mar10,0,4550858.story

You fuck our country in the ass and then your troubled when you get called on it in public?

The SOU is exactly where you should be rebuked as you helped fuck the state of the union even more then it was. Fuck you John Roberts... Just Fuck You!

[StClone]

1. Roberts will not be remember as a great SCOTUS Jurist

Just a long-lived hack.

[nevergiveup]

2. Sorry John

What goes around comes around.

[Raster]

3. And how is Chief Justice Closet Case these days?

one word: Hack

[slampoet]

17. +1

[Deep13]

4. Well, your honor...

[hobbit709]

5. What other presidents have said

"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem , and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves."
—Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.

Theodore Roosevelt, however, holds the record for criticism of courts in State of the Union addresses. In his 1906 and 1908 State of the Union addresses, Roosevelt made extensive and stinging remarks about state and federal judges who invalidated economic regulatory legislation and who issued injunctions against the legitimate activities of labor unions. In his 1908 address, Roosevelt declared that “udges of this stamp do lasting harm by their decisions because they convince poor men in need of protection that the courts of the land are profoundly ignorant of and out of sympathy with their needs.” Similarly, in his 1906 address, Roosevelt complained about “flagrant wrongs committed by judges in connection with disputes.” In both addresses, in which Roosevelt devoted thousands of words to discussing judicial issues, Roosevelt professed strong respect for the majority of state and federal judges and for judicial independence, but he warned that the continuation of strong judicial institutions required a wise exercise of judicial power that elevated the rule of law over special interests.

And St. Ronnie criticized roe vs Wade

[bigtree]

6. White House responds

“What is troubling is that this decision opened the floodgates for corporations and special interests to pour money into elections, drowning out the voices of average Americans,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement.

That’s why Obama “spoke out to condemn the decision and is working with Congress on a legislative response,” Gibbs said.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-09/obama-spokesman-defends-court-criticism-after-roberts-remarks.html

[DisgustedInMN]

7. Roberts is POS.

[UTUSN]

8. Oh. Thought it said "unSEATED." Wishful thinking!1 n/t

[Lasher]

9. Good, I hope he doesn't sleep at night.

Lots of people want respect they don't deserve. And the SCOTUS as an institution will never salvage its reputation after Bush v. Gore.

[Brewman_Jax]

10. Really, Mr. Chief Justice

because if you had any sort of integrity, you'd have resigned, rather than suffer having your dirty laundry aired in public. As we all know, integrity is to repubs as sunlight is to vampires. :eyes:

Just fuck off, Roberts.

[rurallib]

11. Well jeez, John. Just grant cert to one of those birther cases

and declare Obama a Kenyan.
It's not like you care about the law or precedence or anything.

[L0oniX]

12. Awww ...poor Johnny boy ...will this help?

[zaj]

13. Free Speech

[zaj]

15. Person

[randr]

14. Who would have thought this dipwad would get his panties up his crack?

Fucking hall monitor!

[Gman2]

16. Manchurian activist judge. A good reason to put away the Obama criticism

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. I just don't see how the Supreme Court Justices expected to be free of

criticism in a country like America that values free speech.

[Javaman]

19. He's wealthy first, a federalist second, a judge third and a citizen last nt

he cares nothing about the people of this nation.