Chief Justice John Roberts has issued a year-end report that includes a warning about defying rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court. While it is Democrats who have been waging a years-long attack on the court, the liberal outlet Politico is trying to make this all about Trump.
Leftists have been protesting outside the homes of justices, a radicalized leftist admitted wanting to murder members of the court, and even Senator Chuck Schumer publicly threatened two judges on the court, but none of that matters because Trump!
So much of what gets published at Politico is garbage:
As Trump’s return looms, chief justice warns against defying courtsWith Donald Trump’s re-inauguration as president less than three weeks away, Chief Justice John Roberts is warning against calls to resist or defy the Supreme Court’s decisions.Roberts made no direct reference to the president-elect, but with Trump vowing to swiftly enact dozens of sweeping policy moves of questionable legality, he seemed to be on the receiving end of the chief justice’s admonition in his year-end report released Tuesday.“Every Administration suffers defeats in the court system — sometimes in cases with major ramifications for executive or legislative power or other consequential topics. Nevertheless, for the past several decades, the decisions of the courts, popular or not, have been followed,” Roberts wrote in the annual message. “Within the past few years, however, elected officials from across the political spectrum have raised the specter of open disregard for federal court rulings. These dangerous suggestions, however sporadic, must be soundly rejected.”…During Trump’s first term, he was accused of ignoring court decisions limiting spending related to his signature project of a border wall with Mexico, although the Supreme Court allowed him to continue to tap the disputed funding and the issue became moot with Biden’s election in 2020.
This past weekend, Jan Crawford of CBS News appeared on Face the Nation and said that Democrats have been actively trying to undermine the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. She is absolutely correct.
Transcript via CBS News (emphasis is mine):
MAJOR GARRETT: Jan, as you know better than anyone at this table, this last year was a clash of law and politics, unlike anything we have seen in our modern American history.The judicial system in our country, according to Gallup, 35 percent confidence, 20 percent below our peer countries, other free market democracies. How much of that is a reflection of this clash, the Supreme Court, or just a sense that our judicial system has become, in the words of someone we have all come to know, two-tiered?JAN CRAWFORD: You know, that’s a hard question to answer, because I think you have got a…MAJOR GARRETT: We always give you the easiest ones, Jan.(LAUGHTER)JAN CRAWFORD: But I’m going to try, Major, because I think it goes – you have got to look past just this past year and go further back.I think it really started and took off in the wake of the Dobbs decision, the court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. The outrage over that decision was so extreme that you saw, I think, a quite calculated effort to undermine legitimacy of the Supreme Court by Democrats, Senate Democrats, for example, hearings, stories about scandals, some of which were pretty overblown, to say the least.
Here’s the clip:
Just wait until this coming year or next when Trump gets to appoint another justice. Then we will get a real reminder of who presents a genuine threat to the Supreme Court.
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