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of John Roberts.

”The stakes are higher than ever. We cannot afford to elevate an individual to such a powerful lifetime position whose record demonstrates such a strong desire to reverse the hard-won civil rights gains that so many of us sacrificed so much to achieve. We have come a great distance. We cannot afford to stand still. We cannot afford to go back. We must go forward to the creation of one America.”

What a GREAT quote!

so prescient.

And, John Roberts is a horrible being.

That guy Roberts, is a shameful passive aggressive, racist, he shouldn't be where he is, regardless of his brilliance as a lawyer.
He's a sneak and a dishonest partisan coward. The rest of the six conservatives, aren't any better. That ruling on voting rights last week, was thoughtless, and cruel. Are they that ignorant of history? They are a disappointing lot.

***EXACTLY*** what Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Trmp, and their ilk HATE about Civil Rights legislation. They want to restore -- even increase -- the barriers and decrease the number of minority officials (elected or appointed) and are certainly succeeding at that. Just look at the military officers Trmp refused to promote -- he's taking a direct hand in resuscitating old Jim Crow.

How miserable it must be to live with all that hate inside. They think it doesn't affect them, but it does. It poisons their souls. And for those who believe in a hereafter, it ensures Trump's, and his minions', will not be pleasant. Nor will their historical legacy on this earth be one of anything but unmitigated evil.

“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good {if such ever existed} is oft interred with their bones.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Might be able to strip him of the Chief justice' title.

Yes, I am that petty with sub-par partisan hacks.

out THEMSELVES. Sooner or later, EVERY time, in spite of posturing and pretenses to the contrary. Lewis saw it immediately. And I suspect those who empowered him saw it too..

He is sadly missed as are all those who gave so much to improve the lives of so many. The Republican Party is the party of regression. The Democratic Party must go all-in as the party of progress and we must fight like hell to maintain our democracy and kick those greedy bastards out!

White Affirmative Action



How John Roberts Got to the Top

The Spectre of White Affirmative Action

By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr.
September 28, 2005, CounterPunch

EXCERPT...

Bush's selection of John Roberts for Chief Justice is a glaring example of white affirmative-action irrespective of Roberts' respected legal acumen elevating him above the ranks of an inadequately prepared candidate.

The bigot Bush designated Roberts to replace, the late William Rehnquist, at least spent fourteen years as a Supreme Court Justice before his elevation to Chief Justice.

Roberts has less than three years experience as a federal appeals court judge, getting that lofty position without having any prior judicial experience.

SNIP...

Roberts landed a plum clerkship with a federal appeals judge after his Harvard Law School graduation, followed immediately by a prestige elevating clerkship with US Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist ­ who never hired a black law clerk.

CONTINUED...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/28/the-spectre-of-white-affirmative-action/

A 20 Year-old article that is still news to most everybody in the United States of America.

And something DUers of a certain age may remember:

Know your BFEE: John Roberts earned his Sgt. Pepper stripes as an Iran-Contra cover-up artiste.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1002281926

chief justices in US history whereas John Lewis is beloved and in whose history greatness is recognized already.