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Hortense's avatar

Roberts needs to figure out how to rein in the rest of the justices. That Alito can't conceive of compromises is a real problem. Minimally he needs to re-read any Federalist paper and history of the founding fathers where they are very clear on separation of church and state, and that the US is NOT founded on Christianity. Judeo-Christian values may have informed the discussions, but "informed" is not the same as "dictate". Justice Thomas needs to decide whether he believes in public service or private gain. If he was not making the money he thought he should have been making, then he could have done like most other people and gotten another job. There is no way for him to spin the gifts he's been given. But minimally, he needs to pay taxes on them. All I can say for the liberal justices, make sure you are working above board.

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Bill and Andrew, to say "you've honestly got to feel for Chief Justice John Roberts" is nonsense. It is Roberts who has done more damage to democracy than any one else alive today, including Trump. Just look at his record on election law, designed since his role at the Justice Department under Reagan when he opposed Reagan's desire to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His carefully planned, step-by-step execution of our election laws promoted White wealthy Christian Men into an autocracy: permitting unlimited dark money, claiming corporations are people too, pretending that we are a post racial society, and permitting excessive gerrymandering. See: https://campaignlegal.org/update/why-current-us-supreme-court-threat-our-democracy. This is a thorough examination of Roberts and democracy.

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