11-22-2018, 06:26 PM
It is a rare and extraordinary thing to see a Chief Justice come forth publicly, to rebuke the sitting President of the United States. But these are extraordinary times.
"We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges," Roberts said in an unusual Wednesday statement. "What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them." ---Chief Justice John Roberts---
Kind of reminds you of one of Paul Ryan's self possessed grandiosities, does it not? To demonstrate a little context; Remember this?
March 16, 2017----
"A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked the major provisions of President Trump's revised ban on refugee resettlement and travel from six predominantly Muslim countries, hours before the executive order was to take effect.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson said his ruling applies nationwide. "
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trav...story.html
Same judge strikes again the following October 18, 2017 ----
CNN) — A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump's revised travel ban one day before it was set to take effect. Judge Derrick Watson said the travel ban -- Trump's third version of the policy -- "plainly discriminates based on nationality."
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/...index.html
Now, straighten me out here. A judge sitting on an island in one of the most remote and isolated locations on earth, surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean in every direction which basically provides natural immunity to the problem of illegal immigration, decides nevertheless to inject himself into the mainland's illegal immigration dispute. Why?
To bring suit one must have standing, correct? John Roberts qualified his statement (ill conceived as it was) by making this comment, "judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing 'before them'." Who flew out to Hawaii to appear before Judge Watson? And what gives the good judge 'standing' to foist his political opinion on all 350 million off-island American citizens to whom he has no viable authority?
IMHO, Judge Watson is a culture warrior wearing a black robe and he's a headline hound. Thus the last minute 'stays' to which he is prone to favor. But what is the real problem in all of this? Immigration law is clear and just as binding as the day it was written and passed by the US Congress. And what's to say the left activist judiciary would fall in line for a body of new law with which they would likely not agree? I am not one of those who believes that passing new laws that may not please the left, would be obeyed or enforced anymore than are the ones that are presently on the books and little more than steamroller fodder to them. No, the only situation they will accept are laws that conform to their liberal leanings. Which of course means that everybody else will have to conform 100% to 'their position,' or this type of politically correct activism from the bench will rage on, no matter what new law is passed.
I do not accept the assumption of most. That assumption being somehow, that it is MR Trump himself being rejected by the forces arrayed against his administration. It's true that he has and is being vilified beyond reason. But what's going on here is the rejection of our founding, and the moral principles upon which this land was built. It is a rejection presently being referred to as the resistance, and is centered in the people's government and being fought at the national level. Any Republican, Independent or Democrat for that matter, bold enough and honorable enough to espouse the traditional conservative values of our heritage, would be treated just as rudely.
Now as literally thousands of invaders assault our southern border, "In a ruling late Monday, U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar of San Francisco issued a nationwide restraining order barring enforcement of the policy President Trump announced Nov. 8, which he billed as an urgent attempt to stop the flow of thousands of asylum-seeking families across the border each month."
Friends, the judge knows full well that there are precious FEW "families" in these so-called caravans.
"We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges," Roberts said in an unusual Wednesday statement. "What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them." ---Chief Justice John Roberts---
Kind of reminds you of one of Paul Ryan's self possessed grandiosities, does it not? To demonstrate a little context; Remember this?
March 16, 2017----
"A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked the major provisions of President Trump's revised ban on refugee resettlement and travel from six predominantly Muslim countries, hours before the executive order was to take effect.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson said his ruling applies nationwide. "
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trav...story.html
Same judge strikes again the following October 18, 2017 ----
CNN) — A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump's revised travel ban one day before it was set to take effect. Judge Derrick Watson said the travel ban -- Trump's third version of the policy -- "plainly discriminates based on nationality."
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/...index.html
Now, straighten me out here. A judge sitting on an island in one of the most remote and isolated locations on earth, surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean in every direction which basically provides natural immunity to the problem of illegal immigration, decides nevertheless to inject himself into the mainland's illegal immigration dispute. Why?
To bring suit one must have standing, correct? John Roberts qualified his statement (ill conceived as it was) by making this comment, "judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing 'before them'." Who flew out to Hawaii to appear before Judge Watson? And what gives the good judge 'standing' to foist his political opinion on all 350 million off-island American citizens to whom he has no viable authority?
IMHO, Judge Watson is a culture warrior wearing a black robe and he's a headline hound. Thus the last minute 'stays' to which he is prone to favor. But what is the real problem in all of this? Immigration law is clear and just as binding as the day it was written and passed by the US Congress. And what's to say the left activist judiciary would fall in line for a body of new law with which they would likely not agree? I am not one of those who believes that passing new laws that may not please the left, would be obeyed or enforced anymore than are the ones that are presently on the books and little more than steamroller fodder to them. No, the only situation they will accept are laws that conform to their liberal leanings. Which of course means that everybody else will have to conform 100% to 'their position,' or this type of politically correct activism from the bench will rage on, no matter what new law is passed.
I do not accept the assumption of most. That assumption being somehow, that it is MR Trump himself being rejected by the forces arrayed against his administration. It's true that he has and is being vilified beyond reason. But what's going on here is the rejection of our founding, and the moral principles upon which this land was built. It is a rejection presently being referred to as the resistance, and is centered in the people's government and being fought at the national level. Any Republican, Independent or Democrat for that matter, bold enough and honorable enough to espouse the traditional conservative values of our heritage, would be treated just as rudely.
Now as literally thousands of invaders assault our southern border, "In a ruling late Monday, U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar of San Francisco issued a nationwide restraining order barring enforcement of the policy President Trump announced Nov. 8, which he billed as an urgent attempt to stop the flow of thousands of asylum-seeking families across the border each month."
Friends, the judge knows full well that there are precious FEW "families" in these so-called caravans.