(June 28, 2025 at 2:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I still see this thread roll around and read the title as "The Scrotum Chronicles".

Not entirely inapt.

(June 28, 2025 at 4:16 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(June 28, 2025 at 12:18 am)Jackalope Wrote: The flip side of that is the Balkanization of America.

Maybe that's overdue.

Boru

Perhaps.

In retrospect, maybe we should have hanged the lot last time around.

Personally I'll be sitting this one out.

Quote:Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday said some public criticism of the Supreme Court’s work is “not terribly helpful,” dismissing it as “venting” that only focuses on the bottom line.

“It would be good if people appreciated it’s not the judge’s fault that a correct interpretation of the law meant that, no, you don’t get to do this,” Roberts told a crowd of judges and lawyers gathered at a judicial conference in North Carolina.

“And it may be an incorrect interpretation,” he continued. “But if that’s their criticism, then, of course, they can explain that, and maybe the court of appeals will take a different view.”

The chief justice added, “But if it’s just venting because you lost, then that’s not terribly helpful.”

Roberts was not speaking to any specific decision, but his conversation with Albert Diaz, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit’s chief judge, came one day after the Supreme Court handed down its final opinions of the term.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-bat...criticism/

It's almost as if he thinks no one but a judge is capable of reading and understanding the Constitution.

(June 29, 2025 at 10:57 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

Quote:Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday said some public criticism of the Supreme Court’s work is “not terribly helpful,” dismissing it as “venting” that only focuses on the bottom line.

“It would be good if people appreciated it’s not the judge’s fault that a correct interpretation of the law meant that, no, you don’t get to do this,” Roberts told a crowd of judges and lawyers gathered at a judicial conference in North Carolina.

“And it may be an incorrect interpretation,” he continued. “But if that’s their criticism, then, of course, they can explain that, and maybe the court of appeals will take a different view.”

The chief justice added, “But if it’s just venting because you lost, then that’s not terribly helpful.”

Roberts was not speaking to any specific decision, but his conversation with Albert Diaz, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit’s chief judge, came one day after the Supreme Court handed down its final opinions of the term.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-bat...criticism/

It's almost as if he thinks no one but a judge is capable of reading and understanding the Constitution.

He simply doesn't understand that the only person destroying his reputation is himself.

With all due respect, Mr. Roberts can get fucked.

(June 29, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Jackalope Wrote: With all due respect, Mr. Roberts can get fucked.

I love the phrase ‘with all due respect’, because it’s always followed by something monumentally disrespectful. 

Boru

(June 29, 2025 at 6:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(June 29, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Jackalope Wrote: With all due respect, Mr. Roberts can get fucked.

I love the phrase ‘with all due respect’, because it’s always followed by something monumentally disrespectful. 

Boru

... which in this case is the respect Roberts is due, after signing off on facilitating the dismantling of our democracy ...

(June 29, 2025 at 6:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(June 29, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Jackalope Wrote: With all due respect, Mr. Roberts can get fucked.

I love the phrase ‘with all due respect’, because it’s always followed by something monumentally disrespectful. 

Boru

In relation to my true feeling on the subject, that was only mildly disrespectful.

(June 29, 2025 at 6:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(June 29, 2025 at 6:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I love the phrase ‘with all due respect’, because it’s always followed by something monumentally disrespectful. 

Boru

... which in this case is the respect Roberts is due, after signing off  on facilitating the dismantling of our democracy ...

Yeah, I was complimenting, not complaining.

Boru

I have always liked the phrase - with all due respect.

Such as - with all due respect, please do go fuck yourself.

Sounds kinda classy but gets the point across.