Dear Justice Roberts

[babylonsister]

Sent to me on FB~

Kevin Gurnsey
Please share this far and wide so this prick gets wind of it…
Essayist Lucinda Law cuts to the heart of our corrupt current Supreme Court & the anger all thoughtful Americans feel about it. Here's Lucinda's letter to Justice Roberts. I couldn't agree with her more…
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"Dear Justice Roberts,

"It has come to my attention through your various media appearances that your feelings are hurt — that people view you and your Court as political actors, which you insist is not an accurate understanding of what the Court does.

"So let me resolve the confusion: the misunderstanding is yours, not ours.

"People believe your Court is political because it is and acts so in plain view of the nation.
"You unleash unlimited corporate money into elections by inventing constitutional protections for concentrated wealth. You dismantle voting protections while dining with the very political movement that benefits from their destruction. You expand presidential immunity in ways conveniently favorable to a corrupt executive you have rewarded with extraordinary deference, 90% deference. And then you perform public astonishment when Americans recognize your pattern.
"Your Court did not merely 'interpret' the Constitution. It selectively hollowed it out whenever democratic participation threatened entrenched power.

"Citizens United accelerated America’s transformation into an oligarchy where billionaires and corporations wield more political influence than millions of citizens combined. Shelby County gutted the Voting Rights Act, after which states moved with remarkable speed to burden the very voters the Act was designed to protect. The immunity ruling signaled that sufficient power can place a president beyond meaningful accountability.

"Then you publicly mourn the collapse of trust. What exactly did you think would happen?

"Legitimacy is not something a court grants itself while issuing ideologically convenient outcomes wrapped in constitutional language — when the public is fortunate enough to even receive a full opinion instead of another consequential ruling buried in the shadow docket.

"Legitimacy is earned through restraint, consistency, ethical seriousness, and fidelity to principle even when principle is inconvenient to power.

"This is precisely the credibility your Court squandered. We understand perfectly well what we have been watching. We all see you and your court and its role in what our nation has become.
"And we are furious — not because we are too ignorant to understand constitutional law, but because we are capable of reading the Constitution you claim to defend- while watching this Court repeatedly twist it to serve its own ideological will.

"History will remember this era. And it will remember you and your Court- not as a guardian of constitutional democracy, but as a key institution that eroded it. That is already your legacy, so stop whining- you earned a nation's scorn."

[irisblue]

1. Where is Roberts kids are going to school?

[Wiz Imp]

4. His kids are both in their mid twenties.

His son attended Cardigan Mountain School, an all-boys boarding school in Canaan, New Hampshire. His daughter attended the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland.

[irisblue]

7. Thx for the reply

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Yeppers.

Sent this sign yesterday to a local protest:




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[malaise]

3. Rec rec. rec

Nailed it

[SergeStorms]

5. It all falls on deaf ears....

and empty consciences. I honestly believe numerous SC right-wing justices penned Project 2025 and were remunerated by the Heritage Foundation for their efforts.

IF there is presidential election in 2028, and IF it's free and fair, and IF a Democratic president is elected by the citizens of the United States, the Supreme Court MUST be expanded to correct the right-wing republican dumbfuckery exacted on the citizens of our country.

[Chasstev365]

6. Well said!

[ShazzieB]

8. History will remember the Roberts Court all right.

Chief Justice John Roberts will be remembered the way chief Justice Roger B. Taney is remembered for the Dred Scottt decision, the way Chief Justice Melville Fuller is remembered for Plessy v Ferguson, and the way Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone is remembered for Korematsu v. United States.

In other words, he will be remembered not in his own right as a great or even particularly good Chief Justice, but as the Chief Justice who presided over a court known for disastrous rulings. Only in Roberts" case, he will be known as the Chief Justice who presided over over a court known not for one catastrophic decision but for a whole string of historically bad rulings. One of these, Citizens United v. FEC, is already enshrined in numerous lists of historically bad Supreme Court cases such as this one: https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/supreme-court/13-worst-supreme-court-decisions-of-all-time/

His name is one that will live in infamy as generations of law students study the many terrible rulings rendered by the Roberts Court.

[LilElf70]

9. I just hope this letter makes it to the proper destination.

It's disgusting what this body of law has done to support an oligarchic society.