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| March 4, 2020
Internet explodes at John Roberts’ ‘partisan’ attack on Chuck Schumer: ‘He can stuff it’.
On Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts took the highly unusual step of publicly criticizing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his speech warning Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh that they “will pay the price” if they rule against women’s rights —
a move that was all the more notable because Roberts failed to say anything when President Donald Trump attacked Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor a week ago.
This was not lost on many social media commentators, who reacted with outrage at Roberts’ apparent decision to pick sides:
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Mark Harris
@MarkHarrisNYC
This after dead silence when Trump attacked Sotomayor and Ginsberg by name. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, as is the selective primness in which it's cloaked.
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Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
Whether you think Schumer’s comments were warranted or not, for Chief Justice Roberts to reprimand him, after permitting so much from Trump to go unacknowledged, will damage public faith in the neutrality of the Court he leads. This feels like a misstep. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/rare-rebuke-chief-justice-roberts-slams-schumer-threatening-comments-n1150036 …
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Charles Johnson
@Green_Footballs
It’s the height of hypocrisy for Roberts to reprimand Schumer like this, based on a deliberate misinterpretation of Schumer’s comment, after saying absolutely nothing about the MANY times Donald Trump has attacked and threatened the judiciary in much worse terms.
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Fred Guttenberg
@fred_guttenberg
Why would Chief Justice Roberts get involved in this but fail to do so two weeks ago when the current occupant of the White House attacked some of the justices. Chief Justice Roberts ought to be publicly consistent, or keep his opinions out of this.
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Max Kennerly
@MaxKennerly
Oh? Well maybe Senator Schumer should call those justices a "terrible, costly and dangerous disgrace," like Trump said about the 9th Circuit. Or maybe talk about how their heritage makes them biased, like Trump did about Judge Curiel. Roberts was fine with those.
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Markos Moulitsas
@markos
Oh, did I miss Roberts chastising Trump for threatening judges, juries, and witnesses? No? Then he can stuff it
Trump has spent years threatening the safety of too many government officials to list, and John Roberts has said nothing.
But now that Chuck Schumer said something mean about the two worst Supreme Court Justices, NOW John Roberts has something to say? Give me a break!
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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjs_DC
A few thoughts:
1. Schumer was quoting Kavanaugh's confirmation statement.
2. Schumer's remarks went too far, and Roberts' condemnation is appropriate.
3. Roberts said nothing when Trump attacked RBG and Sotomayor last week.
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser
Every reporter who covers the Supreme Court knows that John Roberts was silent in the face of Trump’s attacks on Sotomayor & RBG last week.
The honest ones will make that a central part of their coverage of Roberts’ criticism of Schumer.-------  |
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| "Women's health care rights are at stake and Americans from every corner of the country are in anguish about what the court might do to them.
Sen. Schumer's comments were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision.
For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing's deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsberg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes."
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| "Women's health care rights are at stake"
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