by Shawn Fleetwood at the Federalist
Roberts’ attempts to preserve what he views as the judiciary’s ‘legitimacy’ are only destroying its credibility with the American people.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has found himself in the hot seat of America’s political discourse — and for good reason.
Not content with simply allowing rogue lower court judges’ judicial jihad against the executive branch to continue unabated, the chief justice has now taken it upon himself to criticize President Donald Trump for calling for District Court Judge James Boasberg to be impeached. An Obama appointee, Boasberg unilaterally attempted to halt the administration’s deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador this past weekend.
In his shockingly tone-deaf statement, Roberts seemingly attempted to run cover for Boasberg’s overreaching actions by pushing back on Trump’s calls for the judge’s impeachment.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Curiously, the statement does not appear to have been released…
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by Sean Davis at X
John Roberts didn’t just go out of his way yesterday to trash Trump on a purely political matter—impeachment of corrupt judges—over which Roberts has no authority.
He did it by selectively leaking his statement to left-wing corporate media outlets, lying about its nature (claiming it was only in response to press inquiries rather than a general statement), and then refusing to provide the full statement to conservative media outlets when requested, including @FDRLST
. To date, no one knows the full extent of what Roberts and his taxpayer-funded PR agents have said, because no record of any statement from the court can be found anywhere on the Supreme Court website, a shocking breach of protocol and transparency.
Did the left-wing corporate media outlets hand-picked by Roberts to receive his political rant print it in full, or did they selectively quote it? It is impossible to know, because the Chief Justice is refusing to be transparent about what he said and who he said it to. I have now asked the Supreme Court public information office five…
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