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A clip from a 2008 episode of Boston Legal has gone viral where actor James Spader TORCHES the Roberts Supreme Court.
Here are the details. 👇
Spader, in his Alan Shore character, criticized the entire Supreme Court to its face during an oral argument before look-alike justices.
Shore lets the Roberts Court have it:
“In your short term as Chief Justice this court with your narrow majority has turned back the clock on civil rights, school segregation, equal protection, free speech, abortion, campaign finance.
“Let's consider your respective Senate confirmations. You all testified under oath that you never actually considered how you would rule on abortion. You must be kidding me! Never gave it a thought? No perjury there?”
Spader’s character then goes after the impropriety if the Court: 👇
“Justice Scalia? You went duck hunting with Vice President Cheney while he was a named defendant in a case before this court. Congratulations on not getting shot, by the way.”
“Justice Alito? You were caught hearing a case involving a company you'd invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in. Ha! No conflict of interest there?”
He then goes after the political nature of the bench:
“The Supreme Court was intended to be free and unadulterated by politics. It is now dominated by it. You're hand-picked by Presidents with ideological agendas, and of the two dozen five-four decisions of your 2006-2007 term, nineteen broke straight across ideological lines. That's politics!
And while you claim to be against judicial activism you rewrote--check that--invented new law to decide a presidential election for God's sake! If that's how it's going to be then at least have the decency to put your names on ballots like the rest of the politicians so that we the people get a voice!”
Here are the details. 👇
Spader, in his Alan Shore character, criticized the entire Supreme Court to its face during an oral argument before look-alike justices.
Shore lets the Roberts Court have it:
“In your short term as Chief Justice this court with your narrow majority has turned back the clock on civil rights, school segregation, equal protection, free speech, abortion, campaign finance.
“Let's consider your respective Senate confirmations. You all testified under oath that you never actually considered how you would rule on abortion. You must be kidding me! Never gave it a thought? No perjury there?”
Spader’s character then goes after the impropriety if the Court: 👇
“Justice Scalia? You went duck hunting with Vice President Cheney while he was a named defendant in a case before this court. Congratulations on not getting shot, by the way.”
“Justice Alito? You were caught hearing a case involving a company you'd invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in. Ha! No conflict of interest there?”
He then goes after the political nature of the bench:
“The Supreme Court was intended to be free and unadulterated by politics. It is now dominated by it. You're hand-picked by Presidents with ideological agendas, and of the two dozen five-four decisions of your 2006-2007 term, nineteen broke straight across ideological lines. That's politics!
And while you claim to be against judicial activism you rewrote--check that--invented new law to decide a presidential election for God's sake! If that's how it's going to be then at least have the decency to put your names on ballots like the rest of the politicians so that we the people get a voice!”
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