Geben Sie dem Obersten Richter John Roberts die Schuld an den eskalierenden Gerrymander-Kriegen – Niemand hat der US-Demokratie und den Wahlrechten im 21. Jahrhundert mehr Schaden zugefügt als dieser eine verabscheuungswürdige Jurist.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gerrymandering-supreme-court-john-roberts
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> Nobody has done more damage to US democracy and voting rights in the 21st Century than this one despicable jurist.
False.
McConnel did more by stealing two seats.
Roberts certainly has let Americans down. History will show this but it’s cold comfort.
Roberts and Alito were both nominated by George W. Bush.
The Democratic leadership seems to think that parading around with Bush-era Republicans is the way to win. A lot millennial Democrats (probably most) support the Democratic party ***because*** we hate the Bush era Republicans.
But why? I could see if he was a “Seven Mountain Mandate” nut but I don’t think he is.
Moscow Mitch would like a word.
The problem lies deeper. Everything in America is seen thru the lens of Party Politics. There is no such thing as a judge chosen for judicial skills – the judge is appointed because of their political allegiance. Strange as it seems, their decisions represent their political bias.
Rather than being a form of governance, being in government the USA is comparable to being the winning football team.
Special place in hell for all these modern Christians and republicans.
Yeah
But you know, he said the Court only calls „balls and strikes.“
[https://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/12/roberts.statement/](https://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/12/roberts.statement/)
Blackmail. Corruption. Release the files .
Thank you for voting Bush over Gore and then even reelecting him, over both his opponents stating this is the kind of justice he would put on the court. Every election has consequences.
Gerrymandering is extremely caustic to democracy. It forces parties to move to the extremes. If the seat is safe in the general, it moves the real election to the primary, and in the primaries, whoever can outdo the other is selected.
There is a solution to gerrymandering. Well, two things actually. First we need universal independent redistricting commissions. The 2nd layer is mixed member proportional representation. Double the size of congress with half the seats being local seats representing a district, and the other half being statewide at-large seats. When you vote for a candidate you can also vote for a party for statewide seats. Every party would have a slate of candidates selected in the primaries. Statewide seats would be awarded based on the percentage of vote received and the number of seats won in the local elections. So for example, if party A gets 6 out of 10 seats in the local but only has 50% of the vote, the statewide seats would be awarded to that party until they had 50% of the total seats. Then the next party until there are no seats left to cover a percentage.
This would also work better if the minimum number of seats a state had was 3.
I blame him for so much.
W knew exactly who he was picking in Roberts, a man who would perform mental gymnastics to forward conservative policies which most Americans loathe.
John Roberts the antithesis of Earl Warren.
Can you believe how close we were to Merrick Garland being a judge instead of Kavanaugh and things being pretty much the same
bold statement considering clarence thomas exists.
supreme shit
Gosh it’d be just awful if he went away on a long long vacation never to return again in about 3.5 years.
The things that should be done to the „honorable“ Judge John Roberts and all of his ilk who have thrown away the American people like garbage to line their own pockets can’t be discussed on this website because the CEOs he takes his marching orders from also own every single communication platform including this one. Imagine that.
But trillion dollar corporations are people too and there is no racism, ask Clarence, look at the undeclared swag he attracts!
He’s also substantially responsible for legalizing corruption in this country by declaring essentially that anything other than a quid pro quo deal is not actually corruption.
Okay I’m on it
Do not give in to this doom and gloom. The Dems will eventually regain power and at that moment we need to pounce and demand the Dems add 4 more justices ( if I remember correctly the number of justices used to be tied to the number appellate courts which is now 13 full) there is no other option at this point. If the Dems were smart they’d make every election from here on out about impeaching these traitors.
During the 3rd Reich Justice was collaborating, too.
Robert’s has Zero Integrity
Republicans better hope the 30% that don’t currently vote don’t decide to weight in. The independents also might cause some problems.
Except for mc Connell
Giving Trump those three justices was the most important thing he’s ever done per him
Turd biscuit
He’s probably in the files too.
He’s not doing this alone.
Smug ass creep.
Can we do a constitutional amendment against gerrymandering? I dont know if that would result in my side losing seats but it shouldn’t be allowed.
Chief TRAITOR John Roberts
It’s been his life’s work. Look at his C.V. going way back. He’s been working toward this his whole career.
Only for people like this do I truly wish I believed in hell and it’s eternal depths of pain and torture. He deserves to burn slowly on a spigot at Satan’s hooves.
Impeach Roberts and the other five.
He’s not a jurist. He’s a political operator in robes.
I concur…add this -Based on recent investigations by outlets like the Financial Times and Bloomberg, the Trump family is reported to have earned over $1 billion in pre-tax profits from various cryptocurrency ventures since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. The ventures, which are run through family-controlled entities, include memecoins, a stablecoin, Bitcoin mining, and digital trading cards.
Alito and Thomas: „Hold my beer!“