Chief Justice John Roberts says that hostility toward judges has ‘got to stop’ | CNN Politics
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Chief Justice John Roberts warned against personal attacks on the judiciary, telling an audience Tuesday that while criticism of opinions is fair game, “personally directed hostility” is dangerous and must stop.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44407468

Chief Justice John Roberts warned against personal attacks on the judiciary, telling an audience Tuesday that while criticism of opinions is fair game, “personally directed hostility” is dangerous and must stop.

Roberts did not mention Donald Trump by name and, as he so often does, he went out of his way to stress that the attacks he was referring to were coming from “not just any one political perspective.” However, the chief justice’s admonishment came weeks after Trump said that justices who ruled against his sweeping tariffs were an “embarrassment to their families.”

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    “originalism” and “textualism” were a fucking death knell for jurisprudence

    I might at least have the stomach for these philosophies if they promised some kind of judicial consistency or a tangible stare decisis. Instead, it’s pure Calvinball. The courts read the same statutes and precedents in polar opposite ways, purely based on the ideological shifts in conservative media.

    It’s impractical and deeply, inherently regressive to think that a few clever slaveholding provincials had everything figured out forever and ever

    Sure. But then you’ve got guys like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito taking bribes in the open from oligarchs intent on extorting the modern day working class. And you realize its not the latter day slaveholders who are calling the shots.