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BumRushDaShow

(168,998 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 03:41 PM 5 hrs ago

Roberts on personal attacks against judges: 'It's got to stop'

Source: The Hill

03/17/26 2:40 PM ET


Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday pushed back on personal attacks against judges, calling it “dangerous” and a “problem.” “Judges around the country work very hard to get it right, and if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts said while responding to a question about handling criticism during an event at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. “But personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop,” he added.

U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal did not reference President Trump in her question, and his name never came up in the hourlong conversation. The chief justice’s answer, though, comes after the president over the weekend levied one of his most searing denouncements of the Supreme Court yet.

Railing against the justices’ 6-3 decision that invalidated his sweeping tariffs, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the court has “become little more than a weaponized and unjust Political Organization.” In a post on Truth Social, the president described Roberts and the other justices who ruled against him as “inept and embarrassing.”

Trump has also long assailed lower judges who’ve ruled against him, most recently targeting U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for blocking the Justice Department’s subpoenas in its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5788121-john-roberts-personal-attacks-judges/



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Roberts on personal attacks against judges: 'It's got to stop' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 5 hrs ago OP
Well, Dr. Frankenstein, you might want to sit down with your monster and his pals Ocelot II 5 hrs ago #1
The leopards are coming home to roost... BattleRow 3 hrs ago #18
Well, there's a fun mixed metaphor! Ocelot II 3 hrs ago #19
Replied to by Ocelot! NBachers 3 hrs ago #23
I know that big cats do hang out in the upper limbs of trees.. BattleRow 2 hrs ago #33
Sane non maga Americans to Roberts - The judges need to stop attacking us! NewHendoLib 5 hrs ago #2
Like a dog eating it's own vomit Marthe48 5 hrs ago #3
When you sow the wind you reap the whirlwind. leftyladyfrommo 5 hrs ago #4
Roberts unleashed the demon, BlueKota 5 hrs ago #5
Gee, you FUCKING THINK? LearnedHand 5 hrs ago #6
oh boo fucking hoo to john roberts. trump has been pissing on everyone, including judges, but now that he is orleans 5 hrs ago #7
Was the next question "What is irony, for $100B?" /nt dickthegrouch 4 hrs ago #8
Even Susan Collins couldn't have been more concerned (n/t) appmanga 4 hrs ago #9
This is YOUR creation. OWN IT. LilElf70 4 hrs ago #10
He thought when he stacked the court that they were all Aileen Cannon types that would trip over themselve to please him appleannie1 4 hrs ago #11
I've usually called it Just Jerome 4 hrs ago #12
MAGA money/speech is what you hear, JR Ponietz 4 hrs ago #13
Where's that FAFO meme where one needs it? IzzaNuDay 4 hrs ago #14
Who Will Stop It? 2na fisherman 4 hrs ago #15
I had a visual of all the Supremes in their black robes BattleRow 2 hrs ago #35
Do no evil. Do know evil. Do evil. Tetrachloride 4 hrs ago #16
Wow . . . amazing what happens . . . Scubamatt 3 hrs ago #17
When your monster has you hanged, Roberts, try and remember why. Wonder Why 3 hrs ago #20
STOP ATTACKING THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE! Clouds Passing 3 hrs ago #21
Whoever smelt it, dealt it. 2MuchNoise 3 hrs ago #22
You can make through Harvard without learning "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"? lostnfound 3 hrs ago #24
But "legally directed hostilities" reflection 3 hrs ago #25
His own creation. He's a veritable PIG MAIL-EON. usonian 3 hrs ago #26
Didn't the horse leave that particular barn 14 months ago? greatauntoftriplets 3 hrs ago #27
The "buck stops" someplace else, but not here and not with me. BigmanPigman 3 hrs ago #28
NOPE ! SCOTUS will continue to be dragged and dragged ! resign Bread and Circuses 3 hrs ago #29
Dear Judge Roberts: TBF 3 hrs ago #30
Me on attacks on the Constitution -misanthroptimist 3 hrs ago #31
Roberts, LilElf70 2 hrs ago #32
Roberts really needs to go fuck himself Skittles 2 hrs ago #34
;-{) Out of the Bottle Goonch 2 hrs ago #36
Roberts needs to preach to his fellow rightists, Trump in particular. J_William_Ryan 2 hrs ago #37
Time for ol' Balls and Strikes to Hassler 1 hr ago #38
EFF OFF Faux pas 1 hr ago #39
Should have allowed the 14th amendment to be applied Picaro 37 min ago #40
Well, well, well.... You didn't seem to mind drumphf denigrating all manner of people... Hypocrite! electric_blue68 35 min ago #41
Fuck John Roberts! He defies the constitution and every SOTUS precedent to support trump's fascist agenda. And Martin68 3 min ago #42

Ocelot II

(130,330 posts)
1. Well, Dr. Frankenstein, you might want to sit down with your monster and his pals
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 03:42 PM
5 hrs ago

and remind them to behave themselves.

Ocelot II

(130,330 posts)
19. Well, there's a fun mixed metaphor!
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 05:41 PM
3 hrs ago

Leopards roosting in trees like birds of prey, waiting for faces to eat, but is Dr. Frankenstein's face included?

BattleRow

(2,351 posts)
33. I know that big cats do hang out in the upper limbs of trees..
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:38 PM
2 hrs ago

Well,roosting was a bit of literary license..

BlueKota

(5,304 posts)
5. Roberts unleashed the demon,
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 04:03 PM
5 hrs ago

and he's whining because the demon is now tearing him apart along with almost everybody else in the world? Hey John, if only you'd remembered that psychopathic narcissists only give a shit about the person they see in the mirror. Eventually they turn on everybody but themselves.

Roberts is very much guilty of aiding and abetting tsf and whatever negative consequences he now faces because of his misplaced loyalty are his own fault. No sympathy from me.

LearnedHand

(5,391 posts)
6. Gee, you FUCKING THINK?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 04:11 PM
5 hrs ago

Exactly what did you imagine this malignant man would do when YOUR RULING implied he had absolute power?

orleans

(36,862 posts)
7. oh boo fucking hoo to john roberts. trump has been pissing on everyone, including judges, but now that he is
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 04:16 PM
5 hrs ago

pissing on roberts "it's got to stop"

fuck him.

roberts gave trump the wink-wink, the go-ahead, the invincibility shield which managed to send that crazy /demented / piece of shit on the ride of his life, down from that golden shower trump tower moutaintop in his mind, & crashing into all of america and the rest of the world.

but now "it's got to stop?" HAHAHA!

roberts is probably just terrified that one of trump's magat base will be coming for him one of these days/nights like they've done for others.

LilElf70

(1,547 posts)
10. This is YOUR creation. OWN IT.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 04:53 PM
4 hrs ago

You nailed it. Roberts and all the GOP in the SC own this. They can all KMA.

appleannie1

(5,449 posts)
11. He thought when he stacked the court that they were all Aileen Cannon types that would trip over themselve to please him
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 04:58 PM
4 hrs ago

On the rare day when they remember a law and oppose him, he fills his diaper faster. They have already become the most hated
SC in my 82 years.

Just Jerome

(490 posts)
12. I've usually called it
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 05:10 PM
4 hrs ago

Jurassic Park Syndrome, but of course it goes at least as far back as Frankenstein.

When you create monsters,
YOU.DO.NOT.CONTROL.THEM.

IzzaNuDay

(1,285 posts)
14. Where's that FAFO meme where one needs it?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 05:14 PM
4 hrs ago

Chief Justice (CJ) Roberts self inflicted injury — allow scotus granting immunity to Cheeto. CJ, welcome to the FO phase!

2na fisherman

(309 posts)
15. Who Will Stop It?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 05:15 PM
4 hrs ago

Or else what? The Supremes have no enforcement powers to make it stop. And they may soon be easily removed by fiat from the monster they created. And the final arbiters of justice will be whatever kangaroo court Trump appoints in their place. Then he came for them!

BattleRow

(2,351 posts)
35. I had a visual of all the Supremes in their black robes
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:44 PM
2 hrs ago

singing ,"STOP! In the name of love!"

( A song by the original Supremes of Motown.)

Scubamatt

(304 posts)
17. Wow . . . amazing what happens . . .
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 05:30 PM
3 hrs ago

when you rule that someone is essentially above the law! You never could have seen this coming, right John?

lostnfound

(17,496 posts)
24. You can make through Harvard without learning "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"?
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:06 PM
3 hrs ago

Or do you just learn not to care?

How does a smart guy like that not know history of fascism/authoritarianism. Huh.

BigmanPigman

(55,052 posts)
28. The "buck stops" someplace else, but not here and not with me.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:16 PM
3 hrs ago

"Proceed as usual" is his motto.

TBF

(36,472 posts)
30. Dear Judge Roberts:
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:27 PM
3 hrs ago

Galatians 6 : 7 - “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

And he should also read it to the others ...


-misanthroptimist

(1,596 posts)
31. Me on attacks on the Constitution
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:28 PM
3 hrs ago

"This has got to stop Mr. Roberts. It a dangerous problem that threatens us all."

Skittles

(171,383 posts)
34. Roberts really needs to go fuck himself
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 06:41 PM
2 hrs ago

he very much has helped to divide America

FUCK HIM

J_William_Ryan

(3,473 posts)
37. Roberts needs to preach to his fellow rightists, Trump in particular.
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:13 PM
2 hrs ago

Trump is the poster child of attacks on judges, with conservatives following Trump’s example.

Attacking judges is part of the right’s campaign of political violence.

Hassler

(4,909 posts)
38. Time for ol' Balls and Strikes to
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 07:36 PM
1 hr ago

Do the safe thing and move onto a military base with Miller and Blondi

Picaro

(2,384 posts)
40. Should have allowed the 14th amendment to be applied
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 08:51 PM
37 min ago

Roberts is why we’re where we are today.

Stupid man.

electric_blue68

(26,795 posts)
41. Well, well, well.... You didn't seem to mind drumphf denigrating all manner of people... Hypocrite!
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 08:52 PM
35 min ago

Martin68

(27,605 posts)
42. Fuck John Roberts! He defies the constitution and every SOTUS precedent to support trump's fascist agenda. And
Tue Mar 17, 2026, 09:25 PM
3 min ago

And now he wants to complain about right wing attacks on judges? Who does he think he's dealing with?

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