"Chief Justice Roberts Chides President Trump for Obama Judge Comment"

anatta said:
Roberts is defending an independent judiciary,and he's technically correct on that.
However to say the 9th/4th isn't a politicized Circuit /District ignores reality they always rule against Trump
and then SCOTUS overturns their over-reach, such as the "Muslim bann'
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It's not like the Muslim ban, where you needed some interpretation. Literally the interpreting would have to go the other way to allow this to stand, since the executive order contradicts the law. They would have to decide to defer to the president regardless of the law, because this is not a power that has been granted to him through ordinary constitutional means.
 
archives said:
Obama, I'll six, but it could be seven years, was hampered by the filibuster rule, and the GOP took full advantage of it to blanketly halt many of his judiciary nominations, reason Reid went to the majority vote. It was a mistake, setting bad pecedent that gave us the likes of Brett, but explained why Obama didn't fill many of the empty positions
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They should have eliminated the filibuster back in 2008. That was the mistake.
 
Like do you guys honestly imagine that if we had let the Republicans hold up judicial nominations for Obama's entire term, they would be being good little boys right now and respect the filibuster rather than eliminate it and dive like a hog for their plunder once Trump seized power in the coup of 2016? We got a *lot* of nominations through in 2013. The Republicans are still furious and bitter that those ones got away from them, that any court should exist with a liberal majority in a country where the 7 of the 8 last presidential elections were won by liberals (regardless of the fact that there were two Republican coups after they lost). Again, the mistake was failing to abolish it earlier. The mistake was failing to pack the courts earlier. The mistake was trying to negotiate Republicans at all. I've been telling you that they are internal enemies who cannot be reasoned with, a foreign invading army, since the days of the tea party, nobody would listen to me until like a year under the dictatorship of Trump.
 
What is roberts talking about?. If a judge was appointed by xxxxxx then he's called an xxxxxx judge. It' s always been like that and there's nothing wrong with saying it.
 
We Don't Do Vegetables said:
It's not like the Muslim ban, where you needed some interpretation. Literally the interpreting would have to go the other way to allow this to stand, since the executive order contradicts the law. They would have to decide to defer to the president regardless of the law, because this is not a power that has been granted to him through ordinary constitutional means.
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what's with the American flag? don't tell me you've gone nationalist? :rolleyes:
 
In normal countries and, I had previously supposed, America, judges try to act lawfully, though, being human, they have some prejudices, which they try to overcome, and which are good grounds for appeal. Trump seems to know nothing of human civilisation anywhere, does he, poor sick old bugger!
 
Happy T Day Nordberg,

Nordberg said:
This tells you more about Trump. He actually believes if he puts a judge in, he owns them. They have to rule how he wants forever. He does not understand the separation of powers or the concept of an independent judiciary. Trump is such a crook at heart, that he thinks everyone is as corrupt as he is.
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Very common problem with selfish people.
 
Justices are carefully selected to be reliable votes for the president. It is worse now than in the past because the Federalist Society checks out judges whole lives and every decision they have made. Much less risk of having a righty turn lefty or middle of the road.
Even with that, judges do make their own decisions.
 
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