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If the White House decides it can defy the will of the courts, then the people must defy the will of the White House.
— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-02-10T15:30:01.426Z
aeromanKC
(3,802 posts)And oh ya, fuck you John Roberts!!
lastlib
(27,422 posts)with a saguaro cactus.
markodochartaigh
(4,906 posts)Buy all the justice that you can afford! No job too large! Have gavel, will travel!
RVN VET71
(3,117 posts)That can, of course, only be after the Donnie Fatso "New Nazi America" regime has collapsed of its own greed and cowardice, at a time when scholars can once again write the truth without fearing financial ruin, or prison -- or even death. Then the truth about Roberts will be taught in every school in America.
And what truth that will be:
1. His actions to release the president from any strictures of any law,
2. His opening the floodgates of racism to deny, once again, the voting rights of 10s of millions of American citizens,
3. His shocking vesting with humanity the very corporations whose greed and callousness ultimately undermined the fabric of our democracy.
All of these and other actions and inactions will be the evidence real scholars need to portray him as the sniveling, fascist coward we, here, know him to be
Without Roberts at the helm, with, instead, a jurist of character who took pride in his position and thanked God for the opportunity to serve America as a nation of laws, things would have been different indeed. (I know damned well that Warren Burger, for example, would have blocked the efforts of the fascist dweebs on the court and given his energy to protecting the Constitution against all of their efforts to suck the life out of it.)
(Footnote: Ronald Reagan awarded Chief Justice Burger the Medal of Freedom, back when it meant something and hadn't been shit on by Donnie Fatso who awarded it to Limbaugh, and Jordan.)
It may not happen in my lifetime. And Roberts still has years to add to his record of dark support of racist fascism and its leadership. But the time for truth will come.
(And, lest there be any doubt, I truly despise Roberts, even more than I despise fascist Sammy-the-Flag or the corrupt and worthless clown Bush Sr. appointed to replace the great Thurgood Marshall.)
OMGWTF
(5,000 posts)"By rights Mitch McConnell's tombstone should read that he presided over the end of the Senate. And I'd add a second line: He broke America. No man has done more in recent years to undermine the functioning of the US government. He has been the epitome of unprincipled leadership, the triumph of tactics in service of short-term power." -- Dana Milbank
RVN VET71
(3,117 posts)So many people doing evil, so many evil people. Mitcheroo played politics, partisan, partyline politics because he could care less about the country and its people or the fairness of its system of government. The perfectly soulless (and hellbound, if you're a believer) politician.
And Roberts is the guy, the Supreme Court Chief "Justice," who went about deliberately undermining the system of laws that kept the legal edifice of the state, its very soul (again, if you believe) from crumbling.
McConnell sold us all out for power. I'm not sure why Roberts sold us out -- maybe to support the white race, especially the greedy, and richest part of it..
Each in his own way is an embodiment of selfishness and evil on the grandest imaginable scale. Take away either and our situation would not be nearly so desperate. Imagine a GOP willing to fight Trump and his fascism. Or, a tough constitutionalist, like J. Michael Lettig, as SCOTUS' Chief Justice to protect the Constitution against the efforts of the inferior, but evil, minds of the fascist Right
OldBaldy1701E
(9,992 posts)dalton99a
(91,852 posts)quakerboy
(14,699 posts)DV1
(138 posts)The coin is now flipping in the air. One side is peacefully, the other side is violently.
rubbersole
(10,964 posts)And protection from Pam Bondage.
Bluetus
(2,200 posts)they will find themselves being ignored along with all the laws. Time is running out. Chief Roberts had better get serious about this if he wants to preserve any part of the Constitution, including Article II.
If he doesn't act quickly, then we must assume that he has been wishing for the dissolution of the Constitution and entire judicial system all along.
littlemissmartypants
(31,446 posts)And are on the way to their second homes somewhere on the French Riviera.
Or who knows where?
Yachts floating on the Mediterranean?
Bluetus
(2,200 posts)Maybe Thomas always wanted to see everything burn to the ground. Alito too -- it is God's way, you know.
But I really don't believe Roberts, Barrett, Gorsuch and beer-bong guy really saw any connection with their radical decisions and the threat of complete disregard for the law. But here we are, with the sitting VP openly advocating for the country to simply disregard a lower court. Notice that Vance could have said, "I think the court is completely wrong about this injunction and I look forward to seeing that position reversed on appeal."
That is how the system is supposed to work, but that's not what he did, and nobody in the Trump camp has made the slightest move to walk that back because Trump wants EVERYTHING burned to the ground. He has a very simple mind. It is the same with Gaza. Let's burn everything to the ground and then we'll build a whole new thing in it place. Millions of people will be moved somewhere and it will be wonderful. They will love it.
Burn the SCOTUS to the ground. It will be more efficient for me to decide everything. It will be wonderful. Everyone will love it.
drmeow
(5,892 posts)leopards would eat THEIR faces!
Magoo48
(6,687 posts)to save their own democracy and freedoms. Obedience now will end very poorly for us.
kacekwl
(8,851 posts)Gaugamela
(3,172 posts)littlemissmartypants
(31,446 posts)I would love to have on a poster and would gladly wear on a shirt.
❤️
liberalla
(10,782 posts)Yes.
orangecrush
(28,085 posts)nuxvomica
(13,861 posts)I would say no one should obey any of his orders because he is banned from holding federal office by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This has not been tested in court. All the Supreme Court ruled was that Congress must enforce the ban by statute but they said nothing about his status should he win.
3Hotdogs
(14,983 posts)Karasu
(2,003 posts)at will, that applies to fucking everyone.