#SCOTUS is “…far behind in issuing rulings for cases heard since the start of the term in Oct. The #court has announced just 5 decisions, leaving 92% of cases to be resolved b4 the term ends in late Jun or early Jul.
“…the court’s backlog represents the slowest pace of any term in the tenure of CJ #JohnRoberts. By Mar1 of the ‘05 term, the court had issued rulings in >⅓ of its cases. That dropped to 21% by this point in the ‘20 term. This yr, it is at 8%.”
"You knew it was going to be him, didn’t you? To write yet another Supreme Court decision basically saying, this whole race thing – we’re finished with it, and racism is over."
Wendell Griffen on why he opposed George W. Bush's nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court: Roberts has consistently used his to advance intelligence and legal acumen "to advance interests and positions that maintained bigotry, discrimination, and disregard for unprivileged persons."
Wendell writes,
"Like Roger Taney did in 1857, John Roberts uses judicial power now to uphold bigotry, supremacy, and privilege."
"The Supreme Court’s new ethics code is a joke The code is so weak that it serves to legitimize Clarence Thomas’s corruption. It is literally worse than nothing."
"Among the most notable new features of Chief Justice John Roberts’s Court is a willingness to insert itself into matters traditionally reserved to the legislative or executive branches, substituting its own judgment for that of Congress or federal agencies.
This is a particularly troubling development for any democracy."
"Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced an ethics code for the justices. But the code is utterly empty. It has no enforcement mechanism and no mechanism for the public to lodge complaints of misconduct.
As Jonathan Weiler says, "[F]rom his early days on the Court, [John] Roberts has been arguing that efforts to achieve greater racial balance in society are either themselves a form of discrimination or have passed their expiration date, or both."
This is a life mission for John Roberts, to gut civil rights legislation and initiatives.
At what point, one wonders, did Mr. Roberts realize he had been given this mission?
SCOTUS dragging their feet on a decision about Trump’s ludicrous immunity claim is a stain on the court that cannot be washed out. It will be written and talked about for centuries to come. Shame on John Roberts and the Right-wing justices.
Eric Segall warns that with the current Supreme Court, there's a constitutional apocalypse on the horizon:
"Since Justice Kennedy retired and Justice Ginsburg passed away, the Roberts Court has been on a conservative rampage, overturning Roe, turning the Second Amendment into a super-charged destroyer of reasonable gun reform," (continued in /2)
"Chief Justice John Roberts got the chance to complete the Day of Jubilee he declared in Shelby County. The 14th Amendment is now magically and completely converted into a vehicle for white victimhood. Justice Clarence Thomas gets to take his twisted self-loathing out for another walk. And affirmative action is now as dead as Roger Taney because, you know, colorblind."
"The larger story of this term has been one of ethical rot and official indifference. … Whatever Chief Justice Roberts thinks of their behavior, it is plain that judicial independence on his court has come to mean judicial license: a freedom to do and say what a justice pleases."