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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jul 2, 2024, 01:18 PM Jul 2024

John Roberts embraces Donald Trump's view of the presidency

Chief Justice John Roberts is so enamored with the image of a bold and fearless American president that he abandoned his usual restraint and declared a stunning level of immunity for a former president facing criminal indictment for trying to overturn an election.

The man who famously likened judges to umpires who merely call balls and strikes instead, to re-employ a baseball cliché, swung for the fences. Roberts expansively interpreted constitutional protection for any president who might be indicted and all but ensured that former President Donald Trump will evade a trial for subverting the 2020 election before the 2024 presidential contest.

Emphasizing the “unrivaled gravity” of presidential responsibilities and latching onto the term “fearlessly,” Roberts said a president makes “the most sensitive and far-reaching decisions entrusted to any official” and must be afforded the “maximum ability to deal fearlessly and impartially” with his duties.

Joined by five of his fellow Republican-appointed justices (three by Trump himself), Roberts adopted an unstinting vision of presidential immunity, his traditional regard for the stature of the judiciary eclipsed by an aspiration for the institution of the presidency.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-roberts-embraces-donald-trump-s-view-of-the-presidency/ar-BB1pfVlA

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John Roberts embraces Donald Trump's view of the presidency (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 OP
Roberts is the asshole who gutted the Voting Rights Act LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2024 #1

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. Roberts is the asshole who gutted the Voting Rights Act
Tue Jul 2, 2024, 01:34 PM
Jul 2024

Roberts claims that there is no more discrimination and there are no barriers to minority voting. Immediately after this ruling Texas and a good of other states immediately suppress the rights of minorities to vote




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