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.”

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[–] 128 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Idk man maybe you shouldn't have given immunity to the guy who's given to attacking anyone who doesn't bend over and take his micro dick

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  • [–] 63 points 7 months ago

    Roberts is such a dishonest jackass.

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  • [–] 61 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Maybe they need to start doing their jobs, first.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Judges have always been a toss up in the US. Most of the time, their job has been taking bribes and protecting the interests of the orphan crushing rich.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Sir! You offend me. Those judges do not take bribes. That would be illegal!

    They take gratuities. See? Those are totally different.

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    He can go fuck himself.

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Roberts is a direct cause of this hostility...because he chose partisan political play over protecting human rights and upholding the constitution as written. He played the game for a dancing orange wannabe emperor. He lost the respect of the world and history. He can go fuck himself.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    This is what happens when you sell your soul to the devil. Remember during Trump one, when Kennedy stepped down to make room for Kavanaugh? And right after the Kavanaugh swearing, Trump and Kennedy are walking away from the podium, and Trump says something-- and Kennedy stops dead in his tracks, saying basically "Wait what?"

    https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-a-wag-of-the-finger/4754791

    I'm still waiting to hear about a lip reader telling people what was being said there, at least as much as can be seen. At the time the speculation was that Trump pulled strings to get Kennedy's son out of some trouble (that I forget) in exchange for Kennedy stepping down early to make room for Kavanaugh. And in that clip it looks like mere seconds after the Kavanaugh announcement, Kennedy found out just how much Trump's word was worth.

    You see his hand go up, "Relax, guy!"

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  • [–] 83 points 7 months ago

    The hostility will continue until immunity is removed.

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  • It's nice to see roberts admit he's turned the court completely away from the Constitution and is now purely a political actor serving as the activist for Republicans.
    He deserves every hostility he gets from every American he has betrayed in order to enrich himself and his buddies. Families are suffering because of him, and he doesn't think he deserves their hate?

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago

    The Supreme Court is illegitimate

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  • [–] 52 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I would submit that hostility towards conservative judges needs to increase.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago*

    traitors that need impeaching, conviction and imprisonment for the rest of their pathetic life.

    any one going along with Trump's nazis thing (including roberts.)

    But I suspect Roberts is talking about conservatives calling pizza shops and having them deliver pizzas to justices as a form of intimidation, as well as the straight up threats, etc.

    and he is right, that needs to stop.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    Drop dead you traitorous cunt.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Simple solution Johnny,

    🤣 1
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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago

    Stop sucking Trump's dick and disregarding precedent, and maybe it'll stop

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Play partisan hack games, win partisan hack prizes.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Problems bigger than Roberts.

    Problems the Federalist Society.

    It has compromised Lawyers and Judges at every level, across the entire country, literally in the tens of thousands.

    And is largely responsible for the legal wins for conservative terrorism.

    Roberts is just one of a legion.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The thing is, Roberts has been in a position to stop this from happening for some time. He rubber stamped its approval essentially. THat's why he deserves his name shamed in history books.

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    Roberts has been in a position to do nothing but serve the Federalist Society agenda.

    Thats why he rubber stamps all this shit.

    And the Federalist Society needs to be why hes shamed in history books.

    Federalist Society is basically Operation Snow White, if it had succeeded, as far as government infiltration/takeover attempts are concerned.

    Only on a much more massive scale.. cause Snow White got about 5,000 people into government. Federalist Society has at least 70,000 Judgeships, District Attorneys offices, lawyers, etc etc.. amongst their ranks, in positions or poised to enterthem, and while Lawyers themselves may not be government, the shit they push in court can absolutely affect government.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    If you don't like criticism, don't run the most corrupt Supreme Court ever.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago

    Ohhhh is Roberts afraid of the consequences of his actions? 

    On another note. Drones are incredibly easy to access and can deliver a payload quite easily.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Maybe if Roberts hadn't been so busy sucking off daddy donvict over the years then trump wouldn't have built up his insane expectation that the Supreme Court is there to do his bidding. But of course to Roberts...it's really only the people tired of being forced to witness to all of his court's dick sucking who are big meanies to him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes Roberts.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    John Roberts can go fuck himself.

    It deserves saying more than once.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    How about we increase hostility instead?

    Fucking prick

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And end up with Chief Justice Ted Cruz?

    No thanks.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    or else what?

    eat a shit pie, enabler.

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  • Stop requisitioning hostility then, materfucker.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    It's funny how evidence always tends to disappear...

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Surely small, regular violences committed by one person toward 340,000,000 people merit a large violence against that one person in retaliation?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Systematic dismantling of democracy is not a small violence.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Divided up among the hundreds of millions of individuals, it becomes small in a relative sense. Relative to something like the murder of an individual, the impact of dismantling democracy is small and protracted, but the largeness of the violence in aggregate is real and what my original post alludes to in applying it to an individual.

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    Actually, feeling a way about another citizen for betraying the shared values we were taught, irrespective of that citizens education or judiscial ascenency, is dope as shit!

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Roberts the dingus will forever go down in history as the chief justice whose court destroyed the very fabric of American democracy. Unbridled corruption and a dereliction of justice are this court’s defining features. Many SCOTUS before his attempted it, but it wasn’t until the neoconservative filth ushered in by the heritage foundation that they found success. May your remaining days be filled with disgrace and humiliation Roberts - I look forward to pissing on your grave to give you your chief justice desserts.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Maybe eat shit fuck face.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    He will go down as a justice with the same strength of character as wet tissue.

    He’s a coward who is directly culpable for everything we are going through right now.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Hmm! Has he THOUGHT about making Rulings using the Constitution to STOP the Attacks? That MIGHT Work?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Hopefully the hostility has just started.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    You shit your bed, now you gotta lie in it or change the damn sheets Roberts

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  • Nah. Seems very warranted to me tbh.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Actually, it doesn’t. Is it illegal if it doesn’t escalate to a crime?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Seems as though those who turn hostilities toward society find society turning hostilities toward them. Stop protecting a lawless, pedophile wannabe king. The Roberts court is a treasonous embarrassment.

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  • I will when they suffer a major coronary amongst the right wing nut jobs. Until then, nah, you don't get to sleep peacefully at night fuckos.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Lifetime appointments make second amendment solutions the only recource for citizens.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Fuck this illegitimate Supreme Court

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Most of the personal attacks on the judiciary I've seen have come from Trump.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    He should start a group. Do zoom calls. Make signs. Hats. Shirts. Protesting stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Where's Sweeney Todd when you need him?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    If the hostility is towards biased judges then stop being biased. You are not supposed to be biased. If the hostility is towards judges in general then fix your legal system. It isn't working if people are hostile towards judges for no reason.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    The dogshit decisions have got to stop

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    oh no, is someone's rights and personal liberties being affected by others? that must suck hey?

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    But this is what you worked so hard to allow John.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Stop inconveniencing me with thoughts that have a chance of making me feel like what I’m doing may not be right.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Cry me a river. Chief Justice Roberts must be eradicated from public life entirely.

    How does it feel?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Right now I only have a problem with the Supreme Court. I'm okay with all the judges that keeps slapping down all the stupid unconstitutional s*** Trump keeps trying to pull. The Supremes are the ones who are doing end runs around the law to cover his ass. Well them, and Aileen Cannon...

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Perhaps you could try being a fully functional human being john bob.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Do your job right and people will stop hating you, Chief Justice Dumbass.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Go home, commit seppuku, all will be written off, as long as you put some effort into writing a sincere note before you do the deed.

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