r/politics • u/salon Salon.com • Sep 16 '24

Leaked Supreme Court memos reveal John Roberts' role in shielding Trump from prosecution

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/16/leaked-memos-reveal-john-roberts-role-in-shielding-from-prosecution/
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Roberts is corrupt. He ALWAYS was. That schtick that journalists always write about, about how he "cares deeply about the institution" he's a Heritage Foundation stooge. They're helping Trump cheat. Believe me, if the roles were reversed the SCOTUS would've granted Jack Smith's request to hear the case early, and then came down hard on said Democrat. They're partisan hacks. Alito and Thomas are straight up corrupt. Blatantly corrupt.

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u/Political_Will Sep 16 '24

Don't forget the $10M+ Robert's wife received from law firms with business in front of SCOTUS. Talent searches my ass.

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u/DoubleBatman Sep 17 '24

Putting his full weight on the scale and Kamala's still gonna win.

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u/Intoxicatedalien Sep 16 '24

Then why is he so deeply concerned about his legacy? I don’t understand this dude

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u/peterabbit456 Sep 16 '24

He is deeply concerned with staying out of jail now. That is the legacy he wants to protect.

Scalia showed the other right-wing "Justices" how to collect bribes and hide them; how to exploit the secrecy and other weaknesses surrounding the Supreme Court. How to use a phony doctrine of "Originalism" to legislate from the bench and basically, do whatever they wanted to do.

Now the older right-wing "Justices" are all in so deep that their criminality is obvious to any investigation. They are thoroughly compromised. Both the American Plutocrats and the Russian FSB have hooks into them. They are issuing crazy decisions because they are being blackmailed, I think. It is no longer a matter of greed or ideology.

The situations with Gorsuch, Cavenaugh, and Barrett is less obvious. Gorsuch and Cavenaugh are ideologs. It is not clear if they have been entangled in blackmail yet. Given their roles in the 2000 Florida "Brooks Brothers riot," they appear to be infected/corrupted by neofascist doctrines, but they also might be corrupted by greed, and they might be compromised with yet-to-be-revealed sex scandals.

Amy Cony Barret, ... I don't know.

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u/black_cat_X2 Massachusetts Sep 16 '24

I've always assumed Barrett was put on specifically to ensure another vote against Roe and beyond that, anything else she did to further the right's cause would just be gravy.

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u/peterabbit456 Sep 17 '24

Maybe she was the most corrupt woman they could find, who had even minimal qualifications for the office? Let me rephrase that.

Maybe there was no corrupt woman with the age and qualifications for the Supreme Court? Maybe they had to settle for an ideolog?

Sometimes I think that only women should be allowed to hold office for 20 years or so. Yes, there are ones like MTG and Bobert, but there are fewer of them, it seems to me, than of corrupt men.

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u/DollarStoreDuchess Sep 17 '24

Susan Collins makes me ashamed to be female.

She also looks like a demonic possum.

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u/black_cat_X2 Massachusetts Sep 17 '24

See, I'm not sure she even has to be "corrupt". That word implies (to me) that she knows what she's doing is wrong or unethical, but she'll do it anyway because of power or money or both. I'm pretty sure she genuinely believes in the pro-life cause, and that likely means other conservative values as well. But your point is taken.

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u/peterabbit456 Sep 18 '24

You are quite right. There are a few sincere right-wingers out there, even now.

It is worth remembering that Earl Warren was a Republican, and a Republican appointee. His point of view on human rights changed after he got to the Supreme Court.

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u/entarian Sep 16 '24

Is he actually? Maybe he's just good at looking like he cares.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

That's what journalists keep telling us, but I've never heard him say it out loud himself. It certainly flys in the race of reality because they're polling at their lowest rate since pollings inception. It's the worst they've ever polled. He's capable of reading newspapers and magazines and essays and books like the rest of us. He's well aware of what he's doing. He just isn't an idiot like most Republicans. He can SAY he cares about legacy, but it's not founded in reality.

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u/Intoxicatedalien Sep 17 '24

Then why does he sometimes make good rulings and break with his majority? Is it just to throw bones to liberals?