Chief Justice John Roberts has notified Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin that he won’t testify at an upcoming hearing on Supreme Court ethics. CNN’s Brian Todd reports. #CNN #News
Chief Justice John Roberts will not testify before Congress about Supreme Court ethics
He’s done a very poor job as Chief Justice. He should explain why SCOTUS doesn’t have a Code of Conduct or Ethics. Why shouldn’t they have accountability to the people.
@Peter Wainwright I wonder if Supreme Court Justices could strike down such a law as “unconstitutional”?
That is pretty much their job, and the power that resides in them, so it’s not a stretch to think any such law would fail.
Lock Them UP! 🔒
And his looney “best friend” too!
Lock him up and throw away the blooming key.😡
Lock you up! Why? Who cares! Just lock you up 🤣
Do you believe now that some court is the place to force the litigants to violate the law?
Remove them all no matter who appointed them. Reset the system.
Select 50 American citizens at random from a ranger of different backgrounds and upbringings, have them interview a selection of judges and pick 11 new supreme court justices. Any time a justice reaches 70 years of age force them to retire and choose their successor by the same method.
With who😂
@Jeffery Hutchison from those who have lost their right to vote as a result of a broken system
Just imagine all that’s gone on that we don’t know about?!?!
Everything
right under our noses
If all they can come up with is a case involving an architectural drawing that never had a hearing in the Supreme Court less than what you would think would be my guess.
I fought the law and the law won. So, I paid the law and I won.
Roberts thinks he’s above the law. Lock him up.
They all do, it’s the tie that binds them together.
RWBSoCo719 Imagine simping for a judge. You like the darkness of being underneath that rob, as you service him. Its not what “he thinks”. It’s his/their actions. Why should they not impose simple ethics upon themselves as every other judge nation has to follow?
There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON that the people we put the most trust in our society should be able to operate with almost no accountability. This is Insane, and goes against the very founding ideas of this country. Time for supreme court reform.
A million times over I agree!
@Mandy Harewood blame a 250 year old government, so you don’t have to affect change today.💯👍
Gives a new meaning to the term “Criminal Justice”.
SCOTUS isn’t involved in criminal justice …
@All Deep Learning apparently the learning is not so deep…
The court is the place for people to get the law and justice from the criminal’s hands.
The Senate should serve Roberts with a subpoena to appear. If he fails to appear and testify Roberts should be arrested by the Senate Sergeant at Arms.
F**k yeah, time to play hardball
@Jeffrey Blue Oh BS. Nobody with a degree from any law school trolls the CNN comment section. That’s like me claiming I’m the Queen of England.
@Jeffrey Blue The last time a Congressional Sergent-of-arms held someone in custody was 1934. And even then, “jail” was a room in the Willard Hotel. What would be the point in trying to resurrect that practice today? Is that the best you can do with a J.D.?
In other news, congress took an hour off from insider trading to write a bill requiring the supreme court to create for itself a code of ethics.
Once is coincidence, twice is a pattern. I bet the media will find even more malfeasance now that 2 judge have been found to be doing this. Judge Kavanaugh had a HUGE debt forgiven so, he’s probably next. Does Congress need to impose new rules to provide immediate oversite? Once again, privacy + access + no accountability = malfeasance.
@Mister Hat
My favorite part of that was how strongly Democrats were arguing that if you drink a lot of beer, you must have been blackout drunk a few times. Not everyone is a Kennedy.
@John Abbott How often do you boof?
@Mister Hat
I’ll ask you what you think “boof” means, and you’ll give me an answer based on what you read in the news, not knowing (or realizing) that the very reason why slang is called slang is because the definitions change from region to region.
Then you’ll argue with me, and I’ll ask you what “Devil’s Triangle” means, and you’ll tell me that its a threesome or something, and I’ll ask you if you think that a high school kid had a threesome.
And then you’ll change the topic to something else, because you have no actual argument.
It will be like arguing with jello.
These are the folks (the well-connected as Rep Jeffries said in a speech on the floor yesterday) who are arguing about whether kids who have had to waste money on college that they cannot pay back with their low wages, can get education-debt forgiveness. Give us a break.
@John Abbott That’s a lot of words to say absolutely nothing.
If we common people do 1/100th of what we discover they have been doing, we would be in serious trouble. But, they are Justices so… It is sickening to watch all this unfold.
You are being played sheeple
you do
They speak out of both sides of their mouths and they do not represent justice, fairness nor the best interests of the people.
Let’s say it together one more time, “No one is above the law”. 😂😂😂😂😂
@Inksday so…. You’re okay with it.
Investigate the left leaning supreme court judges! Large scale investigation please!
@A T All I can say is…it’s a good thing (in a way) that you don’t have a passport.
@RA JO No clue what passports have to do with what we’re talking about here.
@A T quite alright. You don’t need to.
The Supreme Court CLEARLY thinks that they are above the law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Throw them all out!!!!!!!!!!!!
Life long position should be ended and the justice should be nominated periodically.
@Humongous420 They aren’t above the law but they have the sole authority to strike down any law as “unconstitutional”.
How do you pass a law or a constitutional amendment when the people it’s targeted at have the ability to strike it down?
It’s kind of like getting Congress to pass a law on Senators and Representatives being able to commit insider trading; that is buying or dumping stocks based upon information that they have due to the committees they sit on.
They know what the government is going to buy, ban or whatever, well before the average citizen and adjust their stock holdings, accordingly. They also continuously shoot down bills aimed to curb this illegal behavior. I wonder why that is?
@Humongous420 Rhetorically they are not, I guess. Effectively they are.
@Cathrine Chartier What law was broken? The case never had a hearing lol.
So Harlan Crow did not know that a company he had an interest in was filing a case to the Supreme Court? Yeah right
@possumverde That’s a little bit different than my compnay is the parent company of this other company you know…
Yeah, with the gigantic Greenberg Traurig law firm. Pheww!
@possumverde which is why SCOTUS justices shouldn’t be bffs with Gajillionaires. If Crow has that many investments, he should know that there was a significant chance that one of those companies would have business with the court. And does anybody think Harlan Crow just genuinely wants to be Bffs with a SCOTUS justice because they just naturally have so much in common or that the way in which they met in the first place was just completely random?? Harlan Crow knows EXACTLY what he’s doing. And Clarence Thomas is and always has just allowed these weird bazillionaires use him for whatever weird bazillionaire business they have going on, all the while Thomas remains either clueless to the fact that he’s a puppet, or he’s signaling the loudest, most blatant FU to everyone who falls politically left of like, idk, some effed up lovechild of Goldwater and Nixon…. okay rant over. 🤘🏻
@Blake Schnitker
“which is why SCOTUS justices shouldn’t be bffs with Gajillionaires.”
Who should they be friends with?
Are you suggesting to me that none of the other justices are friends with wealthy folks? Because if you believe that, you truly don’t get the world of Ivy League SC justices.
This is what is meant by 2 tier justice system, one form of “justice” for the ruling class and another for the proles.
Supreme corruption. What is next? TERM LIMITS FOR ALL JUDGES ??????
Its almost as if the only people who have the authority to hold these people accountable are the same people who directly benefit from not holding these people accountable.
“Almost” 😂
Sounds like its time for a new Chief Justice.
The appearance of gross misconduct by our dear Supreme Court justices begs to reason how corrupt may they are involved in politics after all.
Yes to ethics oversight and impeachment of Clarence Thomas. No life time appointments!