“Thank you again, thank you again,” Trump said, taking Roberts’s hand into both his own and shaking it vigorously. Then, as he began to step away, the president tapped Roberts on the arm in a gesture of buddy-buddy intimacy, and said: “Won’t forget.”
Supreme court watchers have wondered why Trump thanked the chief justice so effusively. Was it because the Roberts court had, exactly a year earlier, allowed Trump to stay on the electoral ballot even though he had inspired a violent mob attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021?
Could it have been that Roberts had written the ruling that immunised Trump from criminal prosecution for that January 6 insurrection and for any other criminal misdeed he might commit while in the White House?
I didn’t think any one person holds more responsibility for Trump’s second term than this miserable ghoul.
Between Citizens United and presidential immunity, Roberts is a reactionary bastard of the first degree despite his “aw shucks” respectability games.
He’s a traitor, a feckless coward, and a liar.
i see your john roberts and raise you ‘moscow’ Mitch McConnel…the man who refused to do anything during TWO impeachments/J6…your move
Maybe Newt Gingrich, for creating the playbook that McConnel used?
All time?
Andrew Johnson (followed Lincoln. Was not ok with slavery ending).
Joseph McCarthy (red scare).
Trump (he wants that #1 spot).
Nixon.
Newt.
Then probably John Calhoun, maybe even should be above newt.
And then a cess pool of Dick Cheney, Moscow Mitch, John Roberts, Bill Barr, throw in George Wallace for good measure. Roger stone? Giuliani. And Stephen miller, while not important, an incredible piece of unamerican trash.
He was also the lawyer arguing before the supreme Court in 2000 that Bush won despite vote counting still going on and Gore catching up, likely to overtake Bush and win. Bush rewarded him with the Chief Justice position.
