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turbinetree

(26,932 posts)
Mon May 12, 2025, 06:58 PM May 2025

'People have a misunderstanding': Justice John Roberts downplays overturning landmark case

By David Edwards
Published May 12, 2025 5:00 PM ET

John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court, downplayed the overturning of landmark decisions like the Roe v. Wadeabortion rights ruling during his tenure.

While speaking Monday at Georgetown University Law Center, Roberts insisted that his court had overturned far fewer precedents than previous courts.

"The Warren Court, I think, overruled an average of 3.2 cases a year," Roberts noted. "The last I looked, the current court's average was 1.8. So the perspective of, you know, how many cases are being overruled and all that, I think people, I think people have a misunderstanding about how much the current court is overruling precedent."

https://www.rawstory.com/john-roberts-2671938858/

No............. Johnny can I call you Johnny....................you gave a pass to a person that committed and violated the Espionage act...............and your court jerk-off gutted the voting rights act................you have no clue what the Warren Court did for you............. none...........all you do is gaslight for your ineptitude to the Constitution............you also gave a person immunity ..................from treason of the Constitution............but when it comes to human rights lets say the voting rights act again...............your all in on gutting that right have you read a book by Ian Milhiser called Injustices...........maybe you should read it and then get back to us..............here I will even give you a link.........................

https://www.americanprogress.org/events/injustices-the-supreme-courts-history-of-comforting-the-comfortable-and-afflicting-the-afflicted/

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'People have a misunderstanding': Justice John Roberts downplays overturning landmark case (Original Post) turbinetree May 2025 OP
I am not misunderstanding the fact that Roberts is a traitor and rat bastard. Irish_Dem May 2025 #1
He didn't take Irish adoption laws seriously. No reason to expect him to be any better with our laws. Attilatheblond May 2025 #6
Thank you for bringing this up musette_sf May 2025 #7
You're welcome. I've been pounding this issue for years, to no avail Attilatheblond May 2025 #9
I understand perfectly thank you senseandsensibility May 2025 #2
He and his conservative maga cohorts have been involved in numerous B.See May 2025 #13
Because counting cases without regard for their significance best way to measure justice. unblock May 2025 #3
John Roberts, listen up women are dying because of this decision MagickMuffin May 2025 #4
Oh la di da, we don't overturn that many. No big deal. Diamond_Dog May 2025 #5
Down grading women to sperm servants Johonny May 2025 #8
Yet there are some who blame democrats SocialDemocrat61 May 2025 #10
what a tolal fucking tone deaf clueless ASSHOLE Skittles May 2025 #11
If I had the money mnhtnbb May 2025 #15
No we don't have a misunderstanding and you must think we are stupid vapor2 May 2025 #12
Roberts is condescending to us; he thinks we are all stupid. No sir, we are not. Hekate May 2025 #14
Does Roberts understand that if & when his appeasement of Trump is complete, elocs May 2025 #16
It is about what has been over-turned, not how many? kentuck May 2025 #17
When Justice Roberts can cite another Supreme Court which has taken rights away... Morbius May 2025 #18
Well since the Constitution has been invalidated on his watch why does he even... NNadir May 2025 #19
Its too late for that Ruby the Liberal May 2025 #20

Attilatheblond

(8,143 posts)
6. He didn't take Irish adoption laws seriously. No reason to expect him to be any better with our laws.
Mon May 12, 2025, 07:41 PM
May 2025

Attilatheblond

(8,143 posts)
9. You're welcome. I've been pounding this issue for years, to no avail
Mon May 12, 2025, 08:10 PM
May 2025

And it's looking like Roberts has had people scrubbing the internet & getting information about his use of a straw adopter to skirt Irish laws removed.

One wonders what other legal shortcuts he and the wife have taken; things that might make them so easy to blackmail.

senseandsensibility

(24,205 posts)
2. I understand perfectly thank you
Mon May 12, 2025, 07:06 PM
May 2025

It's not the number of cases overruled. It's who they are overruling these cases in favor of.

B.See

(7,634 posts)
13. He and his conservative maga cohorts have been involved in numerous
Mon May 12, 2025, 10:40 PM
May 2025

nefariously underhanded reich-wing manipulations of law, precedent, and jurisprudence,

and now he's trying to whitewash their complicitly and TREACHERY.

FUCK him..

unblock

(55,859 posts)
3. Because counting cases without regard for their significance best way to measure justice.
Mon May 12, 2025, 07:07 PM
May 2025


And how dare he compare his court to the legendary Warren court.

MagickMuffin

(18,064 posts)
4. John Roberts, listen up women are dying because of this decision
Mon May 12, 2025, 07:20 PM
May 2025



State’s rights are making it extremely dangerous for pregnant women. They can’t even get C&Ds in some states and the states have decided not to document women who are dying because of your actions. Your actions are having a devastating impact upon women, period!

Clueless John, or Clueless John just doesn’t care about women!


Diamond_Dog

(39,646 posts)
5. Oh la di da, we don't overturn that many. No big deal.
Mon May 12, 2025, 07:37 PM
May 2025

You smug tone deaf hateful asshole! It’s not the number of overturned cases, it’s who is affected and how many! Your court took away bodily agency for half the population! Women are dying needlessly from preventable emergencies. But hey it doesn’t affect you, so you don’t care. Infuriating!!!

Johonny

(25,291 posts)
8. Down grading women to sperm servants
Mon May 12, 2025, 08:09 PM
May 2025

Will get you noticed. He and his court are shit destroying human rights and allowing the Christian Taliban carved out a privileged existence where they can force us to live by an ideal they don't even live by.
Fuck him. Every conservative in America is an un-American joke whom are founding fathers would hate.

SocialDemocrat61

(6,661 posts)
10. Yet there are some who blame democrats
Mon May 12, 2025, 08:38 PM
May 2025

for Roe being overturned because Democrats never codified Roe into law. This ignores the fact that democrats in the house passed several bills that did just that but they were always filibustered by republicans in the senate. It also ignores that anything short of a constitutional amendment can be overturned by the Supreme Court. As well as that all the justices who voted to overturn roe and all that voted against were appointed by democrats.

mnhtnbb

(33,093 posts)
15. If I had the money
Tue May 13, 2025, 04:48 AM
May 2025

I would print 10 million postcards with your comments and send them to Roberts.

Total fucking tone deaf clueless asshole, indeed!

Hekate

(100,131 posts)
14. Roberts is condescending to us; he thinks we are all stupid. No sir, we are not.
Mon May 12, 2025, 11:24 PM
May 2025

“People have a misunderstanding” my rosy Irish ass.

 

elocs

(24,486 posts)
16. Does Roberts understand that if & when his appeasement of Trump is complete,
Tue May 13, 2025, 05:02 AM
May 2025

then he will no longer have any need for SCOTUS and it will just become his puppet?

Morbius

(871 posts)
18. When Justice Roberts can cite another Supreme Court which has taken rights away...
Tue May 13, 2025, 06:49 AM
May 2025

....then I might be willing to discuss this "misunderstanding."

I could ask him if he understands a familiar hand gesture which involves an extended middle finger.

NNadir

(37,197 posts)
19. Well since the Constitution has been invalidated on his watch why does he even...
Tue May 13, 2025, 09:53 AM
May 2025

...matter anymore?

Ruby the Liberal

(26,593 posts)
20. Its too late for that
Tue May 13, 2025, 03:13 PM
May 2025

The time to protect a legacy is before casting the votes to seal it on the wrong side of history.

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