Chief Justice John Roberts rejected an invitation from Senator Dick Durbin to testify before Congress on ethics rules for the Supreme Court.
Roberts sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman implying that such testimony would threaten the basic government concept of separation of powers.
“I must respectfully decline your invitation,” he wrote.
“Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare, as one might expect in light of separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence,” Roberts explained.
Accompanying his letter declining Durbin’s invite was a copy of the court’s Statement of Ethics Principles and Practices.
Roberts stated “all of the current Members of the Supreme Court subscribe” to that ethics statement.
Chief Justice John Roberts told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter released Tuesday evening that he was declining its invitation to testify about ethics rules for the Supreme Court. https://t.co/k3iXBogpP5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 26, 2023
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Declines to Participate in Dick Durbin’s Sideshow
Dick Durbin’s invitation to Chief Justice John Roberts was little more than a thinly-veiled effort to address allegations against Justice Clarence Thomas.
Another one of those ‘high-tech lynchings’ the left likes to engage in every now and again regarding the longest-tenured black justice serving on the court.
A report this month by the left-leaning outlet Pro Publica alleged billionaire Harlan Crow, a GOP donor, provided trips and gifts to Thomas that were not disclosed.
Following that report, other liberal media outlets have tried to make specious links between Thomas and other gifts from friends that they suddenly find scandalous.
“neither Crow nor his company were involved in the matter or discussed it with Thomas.”
This is about a case SCOTUS declined to hear, involving a company that isn’t owned by Crow, but tangentially related to another company he had a minority stake in.
Amazing. https://t.co/oUJ1Tt1Hex
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 25, 2023
Thomas, following allegations of impropriety, explained slowly and carefully to those wondering, that the gifts in question were from close personal friends and, as they “did not have business before the Court” it “was not reportable.”
He said he would amend his financial disclosure forms to comply with changes made to disclosure rules that were announced last month.
This is a story about making up shite to tarnish a black conservative supreme court justice by the racist left.
— Melissa Mackenzie (@MelissaTweets) April 25, 2023
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Roberts Often Sides With the Left
It’s good to see Roberts stand up to Durbin, a rare morphing from a spineless jellyfish patsy for the Democrats to somebody finally showing a modicum of intestinal fortitude.
Think about it – Roberts has spent the vast majority of his time as Chief Justice abandoning his principles and voting intentionally with the liberal wing of the Court as a means to convey an image of fairness.
His lone goal is to create a legacy of a court not swayed by politics, but rather, guided by the law. And he’s been more than eager to side with the left to create that faux ethical image.
And Durbin has the gall to question the ethics of his court?
Chief Justice John Roberts’ letter to Sen. Dick Durbin declining to testify pic.twitter.com/1vHQIa9R5Y
— Zach Schonfeld (@ZachASchonfeld) April 25, 2023
In June of 2020, Roberts cast the deciding vote, joining the court’s liberal justices in a 5-4 decision that ruled against the Trump administration’s bid to end the DACA program, despite it having been implemented illegally.
That same year he sided with the liberal court justices, ruling in favor of coronavirus restrictions on religious services in the state of California.
He ruled alongside liberals yet again in a ruling that struck down a Louisiana abortion safety law.
There are so many other cases in which Roberts abandoned the rule of law to cast his lot with the left just to seem impartial.
How bad must Durbin’s circus request be that even he would stand up and say, ‘No, this is a bit too much.’
Roberts though, does have a bit of a history of being irked by Democrats for daring to question the legitimacy of his Supreme Court.
He became visibly agitated after having to read a question from Senator Elizabeth Warren which suggested the legitimacy of the Court, the Constitution, and his own career would be tainted following the impeachment trial of then-President Donald Trump.
WATCH: Chief Justice Roberts reads an impeachment trial question from Sen. Warren that focuses on Republican senators, witnesses and the legitimacy of the chief justice, the US Supreme Court and the US Constitution. pic.twitter.com/rQpXcbkTnX
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 30, 2020
Fox News reported at the time that upon finishing the question, Roberts became “visibly irritated” and “pursed his lips and shot a chagrined look.”
We imagine he had the same look while writing the letter to Durbin.
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