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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/
Irish_Dem
(79,372 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,143 posts)musette_sf
(10,449 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,143 posts)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)It's not the number of cases overruled. It's who they are overruling these cases in favor of.
B.See
(7,634 posts)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)And how dare he compare his court to the legendary Warren court.
MagickMuffin
(18,064 posts)States rights are making it extremely dangerous for pregnant women. They cant 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 doesnt care about women!
Diamond_Dog
(39,646 posts)You smug tone deaf hateful asshole! Its not the number of overturned cases, its 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 doesnt affect you, so you dont care. Infuriating!!!
Johonny
(25,291 posts)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)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.
Skittles
(169,244 posts)FUCK YOU ROBERTS, FUCKING TRUMP WHORE
mnhtnbb
(33,093 posts)I would print 10 million postcards with your comments and send them to Roberts.
Total fucking tone deaf clueless asshole, indeed!
vapor2
(3,637 posts)Hekate
(100,131 posts)People have a misunderstanding my rosy Irish ass.
elocs
(24,486 posts)then he will no longer have any need for SCOTUS and it will just become his puppet?
kentuck
(115,042 posts)They do not weigh the same.
Morbius
(871 posts)....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)...matter anymore?
Ruby the Liberal
(26,593 posts)The time to protect a legacy is before casting the votes to seal it on the wrong side of history.