Laura Jarrett, Nina Totenberg, Joan Biskupic and Dahlia Lithwick join the Meet the Press roundtable to discuss the ethics scandals surrounding the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roberts’ leadership of the Court and the growing calls for ethics rules.
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The collective IQ of this panel is 6. Chuck Todd is all opinion and no fact. He should retire in shame.
Hillary Clinton created this mess when she characterized half the country as being deplorable which cost her the election. Enter Trump and his three appointees and oh my golly.
we can thank Mitch McConnell and trump for this mess
Just McConnell, he is the one who refused to allow Obama fill seats on both the Supreme Court and on the lower courts, which he gave Trump a carte blanche to fill.
Our court system is overseen by a group of people who think they are not bound to any ethics or even the rule of law they rule on. They are unethical partisan hacks, especially Thomas and Alito. They make a mockery of the ideas of “justice for all,” “rule of law,” “nobody is above the law.”
DEMOCRATS HAVE PROBLEMS FOLLOWING THE LAW.
supreme court is clearly corrupt
he is a ;member of the team run by the right wing billionaire?federalist society ……..not the supreme court. If you watched his cofirmation hearings, that was clear from the get go. HIs team is “Bish” League puppets>
He has a team of far, right, corrupt ‘thomas-es’.
The liberal media loves them, when they get the decision they want.
Then its in crisis when they dont like the decisions.
Same goes as the conservatives
When you get a bunch of compromise candidates you get mediocrity. None of them seem like towering intellects. This is not the Roberts court. It is the Thomas court. That’s a joke, but the joke’s on the American people.
Clarence Thomas is the unethical and corrupt leader of the Supreme Court.
There is no honor among thieves. The justices of scotus are as criminal as any politician in D.C.
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Supreme Court SUCKS!!!!!
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Roberts has millions of dollars because his “conflict of interest” wife reps lawyers who stand before this court. Roberts has ethical problems and no, a liberated woman who marries a person and then undermines this court is not ok, not now, not ever. Then there is Ginny. Unelected, unethical extremists, 3 appointed by the criminal Trump should really get kicked out of this court as Roberts and Thomas either undo all the fraud or disappear.
The court isnt in crisis….it isn’t a team its 9 justices that have different opinions as they are individuals….. more lies and propaganda right here.
If he’s the Chief – just tell them – they are not the Chief Justice !
African child molester called me a crack addict without my food stamp card in mexico
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Supreme Court is a total joke
Cornelious Audrey vaughn has to admit he’s a child molester with an e.b.t. card on father’s day
African got to say it
Roberts volume of 5 – 4 decisions show how weak he has been. He has been an utter failure.
This after telling the Senate he would work to not have those types of decisions. He would work to get them to 8-1 or 7-2.
No way would Rehnquist have allowed Alito two days to write a dissent attacking his colleagues like Roberts did.
The American people sure as heck aren’t on Robert’s team. We all want Supreme Court ethics rules, but Roberts thinks he’s Saint Peter of the golden gates with the only keys to the kingdom.
All nine justices on the court have said they don’t need one. All nine of them.
Once the Debt Ceiing is passed, imo President Biden should focus full-stop on lawsuits such as the one to block Texas redistricting by GOP. American voters are being disenfranchised. It’s hard enough on Americans with oligarchs bankrolling candidates and campaigns since Citizens United. GOP-led gerrymander takes the biscuit.
He should focus on the border invasion.
@Frank Rocco There would be no border issue if the US didn’t have horrible foreign policies.
When Democrats exert as much time and energy into holding their own to a higher standard of ethics, instead of going after those who don’t agree with them and try to destroy them for political reasons, then justice can be fair and we can interpret the law based on the Constitution. Why do you not examine those justice’s that do agree with you and who they associate with and accept gifts from?
we have a supreme court akin to a third world.
Wasted segment ! Court doesn’t care about public opinion. Cares about who’s bought and pimping them out like cheap wh@r€$
IT’S funny right (?) that we don’t have a law that prohibits Anti-American ULTRA RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS from becoming judges in America. Weird, huh?
Nice job, Roberts!!
Too late, John
All Roberts wants to do is whine about nobody likes us. Well don’t be a criminal and we might like you.
From my understanding, Alito does not respect Roberts. It has been long rumored that Alito resents Roberts as chief and thought he should be chief instead. Robert’s was first nominated to replace Sandra Day O’Connor but then chief Ranquest died and so Roberts nomination was elevated to Chief. Then Alito was nominated to replace O’Connor. So in terms of time on the court, they have had the same time but Alito felt he was passed by wrongly by timing of Ranquest death.
For darth ncconnell & the federalist society, the ends justify the means. Ideology over the rule of law.
This court is crooked.
GOP corrupt, no nothing judges. They rush all their judges because they are incompetent.
Our system is broken because of the previous president pardoned all the crooks in the previous white house
I have always believe that the Supreme Court should be made of 9 justices 4 liberal, 4 conservative and 1 judge that leans neither way, but is truly independent. This would be the ideal “fair and balanced” court.
I’ve also believed that there was a time you could depend on Congress to truly be bipartisan when voting for judges. But because of the way politics has evolved, you can’t anymore. Amy Comey Barrett got into the Court strictly on a partisan vote from Republicans.
No Dem agreed with her confirmation and its because of the way she was jammed through. Its incredulous that you need at least 60 votes in the Senate to get a bill passed through (which is a way to ensure that the minority party always has power) but you can get in a lifetime judge on a simple majority vote.😒
Regardless of what ANYONE says, Republicans violated the Constitution when they refused to even give Obama’s pick, Garland a hearing.
Mitch McConnell and Republicans should NEVER be taken seriously again when they start railing on obeying the Constitution. Sorry GOP, but you don’t get to selectively choose what parts of the Constitution you want to obey, demand be enforced or respect.
If Republicans really respected the Constitution they wouldn’t have stolen a Supreme Court appointment from Obama. They did something that had never been done before in the history of the Senate. If the Supreme Court is broken as most people believe it is, then Republicans had a hand in breaking it it.
Yeah, as with all government officials, THEY investigate THEMSELVES…”Hey, we check and we found that we did nothing wrong!” Kinda like asking a drug dealer to put himself on trial – “I gave myself a fair trial and found myself to be not guilty!”
Funny (not) how the little guy always gets the crappy end of the stick and the guy in government goes home with giant bulging pockets stuffed with taxpayer cash
As Americans, we need a court we can trust.
One whose Justices are not in the pockets of billionaires.
@lance carona Fire all of them and start all over. No retirement. No benefits. Let the billionaires take care of them. As Americans, we should have the right to do that.
Talk about a leftist panel. First it’s a good thing to have 9 different opinions. If justices are suppose to align themselves, this creates the impression they are one sided which democrats will do to maintain party lines and not remain free thinking.
“The system is broken” – Dear American friends, that the ‘leading legal body’ in the country can be ‘packed’ by presidents is WRONG, plain and simple ! That is at the heart of the problem. And that the judges can themselves adopt, openly, a political stance with decisions made along an extreme political ideology means that the whole system is not fit for purpose. It has to be dismantled, the current judges fired, (some SHOULD be for lying under oath in their appointments hearings!!!) and a whole new justice system rebuilt from the ground up: With a legally-binding Code of Conduct for them. With an apolitical appointments body (that takes the decisions out of the hands of politicians)…. With a term limit created – And, with retrospective implications and responsibilities: i.e. recent decisions made by this bunch of hacks (mainly the extreme right-wing lot), has to be carefully investigated for political bias and if found, nullified and reconsidered. AND corruption has to be investigated by the Attorney General with prosecutions handed down – Anything less will mean that forever the laws of USA will be wholly suspect and… not valued/respected by the public and not worth the paper they are printed on.
These are not true judges… they are political appointments that were picked entirely for partisan politics instead of judicial experience and expediency.
No trust at all
Very impressive panel.
The panelists don’t seem to be commenting on the fact that justice Roberts’ wife is not above reproach.
The extreme court has zero credibility. The right wing authoritarians cannot crush the hearts and minds of the free people so they take over by machiavellian means…
The Harlan Crow Supreme Court is corrupt. Irreparably so. This is a huge threat to American democracy.
Where’s your evidence of the corruption? What specific decisions were effected? CRICKETS !! As usual.
I like beer…
He could like to sniff pre pubescent girls hair. Creeping them out.
Roberts might be the only sane person on this court. I don’t envy him. This “conservative” majority is a disaster and he’s the only one with the intellectual honesty to at least keep it from going completely off the rails. a 4/4 split of conservatives and liberals plus a CJ like Roberts is what we need. Roberts leans right, that’s fine. I’d obviously prefer a left leaning centrist at the chief judge spot, but i’ll take him. Now about getting the remaining 8 into a 4/4 split… We could start by getting rid of the corrupt do-nothing Thomas.
Roberts lied to Congress during his conformation hearings to be chief justice. He said he would work to get more 8-1 or 7-2 ruling not the 5-4 ruling that were the norm even before he got on the court.
Then there’s four other Justices who have no business being there. Thomas, who has been on the court for over 30 years. Thanks HW. Then all three of Trump’s picks.
Look at the clowns the GOP picked to replace good justices on the court.
HW Bush replaced Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas. One of the worst justices on the court ever.
W Bush replaced William Rehnquist with John Roberts.
Trump replaces Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Amy Coney Barrett.
Roberts is really a Democrat.
If you’d like to see what this country will turn into if we continue to put republicans in charge, all you have to do is look at Mexico. Rampant Corruption, .5% of the country controls all the power and wealth. Mass murder in record numbers.
Looks like Thomas lied at the hearing ,too so, nobody trusts the Supreme Court anymore. Conservatives are taking America down by their devaluation of our institutions. One by one.
Specifically, how is the SC devaluing our institutions? CRICKETS !!
@Howard Bueker Nobody trust a Supreme Court where they LIE.
Corporate money has corrupted the court just like politics
The solution is obvious but the people who could change it are bought and paid for
What a mealy mouthed report. Could you possibly have minimized the ethical toilet that is today’s Supreme Court more than you did? Keep trying.
When God released the Israelites from under Egyptian slavery in 1513 B.C.E., they were then formed into a nation with a constitution of laws, and in which at Exodus 23:8, the judges “must not accept a bribe, for the bribe blinds clear-sighted men and can distort the words of righteous men.”
And on “immigration”, they “must not oppress a foreign resident. You know how it feels to be a foreigner, because you were foreign residents in the land of Egypt.”(Ex 23:9) The implementation of justice was to be “across the board”, but that is not what happened, for eventually ‘ law was paralyzed, and justice was never carried out ‘.(Hab 1:4)
As a result, the judges of Israel, instead of providing justice to the nation’s citizens, even being called “gods” due to their prominent positions (Ps 82:6), they failed “to render justice to the helpless and destitute”, continuing “to judge with injustice”.(Ps 82:2, 3)
So, because the judges of Israel failed to give forth justice, but became “crooked”, they “will die just as men do; And like any other prince you will fall”.(Ps 82:7) The United States with its Supreme Court is no different, but it, along with the entire political system with its supporters are in for “the shock of their life”, of being annihilated at “the war of the great day of God the Almighty”, called Armageddon (Rev 16:14, 16), being “crushed” to death by a heavenly government called God’s Kingdom.(Dan 2:44, 45; Matt 6:10)
This is when God, whose name is Jehovah (see Isa 12:2, KJV), will “rise up……and judge the earth, for all the nations belong to” him.(Ps 82:8) Then, true justice will again prevail on the earth (as before the rebellion in the garden of Eden, Gen 3:1-6; see also Isa 11:1-5), and the earth will be transformed into a paradise (Gen 1:28-31; Luke 23:43) for “meek” ones to enjoy forever, “in the abundance of peace” (Ps 37:11, 29), whereby genuine justice will be everlasting.(Matt 12:18)
Roberts is just as garbage as his 5 fellow republican pieces of trash.
RBG phucked you guys. Everybody pretended she could perform her duties from her hospital bed. What a MIXED legacy.
Don’t expect normal article behavior from John Roberts.
America is such a mess now because of his rullings on the court
“Waah… Liberals aren’t in the majority of SCOTUS anymore”.
– Chuck Todd
Roberts deals with questions of the court’s legitimacy with contempt and disdain. He fails to realize how serious some of the questions are with regards to the court’s legitimacy.
Just because you libs don’t like whose on the court, doesn’t mean it’s any less legitimate. Liberal logic at it’s finest.
*Americans are some of the most braindead people, and suckers for their media propaganda* that ever lived.
In their desperation to believe their gov is honest, justice is equal/fair, and america not a *fake democracy* , they refuse to see the *”fact-pattern”* that is directly in their faces.
Americans *do not* check anything. Instead they ask other people and reffer to that as checking. In other words, they accept *”hearsay”* as being factual 😊😅😂
Neither DT, nor any *high-ranking* gov member, will *ever* be *incarcerated* for any crime(s) whatsoever. The only legal ramification that has been, and will be imposed upon them will be purely *symbolic*
Here’s just a few real-time facts as to why he won’t be *incarcerated*
1) It would be a logistical nightmare, because;
1A) Every federal penitentiary is utterly controlled by “prison gangs” (Mexican Mafia/MS-13, Aryan Brotherhood/AB/The Brand, Black Gorilla Family/BG/DC Blacks, etc etc etc)
1B) All federal inmates (without exception) are controlled by these gangs. Even John Gotti was being extorted by the AB.
1C) Such gangs also control the a great majority of the gaurds (that’s how most of the illegal contraband enters the federal prisons.
2) The law demands *all* former presidents & Vice presidents *must* have secret service protection, for the remainder of their respective lives.
2A) If “45” was incarcerated, would require for his secret service detail to also be, in effect, incarcerated with him 24/7.
2B) “45” would be the most targeted person that ever entered the federal prison system. Every prison gang would put him on the very top of their respective lits for all forms of extortion.
2C) Likewise, every person on “45” security detail would become instant targets by these gangs.
3) The only way “45” would not be suspectable to such gangs is;
3A) The gov would have to secure and entire portion of the penatentry.
3B) Not allow *anyone or anything* (guards, inmates, prison food/water, etc) to come in contact with “45”, nor his security detail.
3C) Build an penatentry just for the incarciration of him & his security detail.
4)DT is not doing anything 99% of gov members have, and are still doing. The only thing that is different ….
4A) DT does it *overtly*
4B) The others do it *covertly*
*america has always been, and will continue to be, a criminal enterprise*
*Babylon (oop, I mean america) is falling, and will soon be nothing other than a bad memory.
“There not treated like all other federal judges” as well they shouldn’t be. There the highest court in the land. There not other federal judges.
TALIBAN Republickkkan SUPREME COURT. WOMEN’S RIGHTS GONE. VOTER’S RIGHT’S NEXT. Vote Red your rights in USA get taken AWAY
Wait until we make you idiots come to our churches.
Why isn’t Steve Bannon in Prison???
The Supreme Court is TRASH..! McConnell’s Stolen Seats..! Confirmation Liars..! Thomas Scandalous Behavior..! DISGUSTING..!
WAH WAH WAH Enjoy liberal tears.
WE DO NOT NEED A SUPREME COURT —— WE NEED TO TAKE REFERENDUMS ON THESE ISSUES —– WE NEED TO VOTE ON THESE THINGS
You really want people voting on other’s civil right’s?
@LdyVder that’s what the Civil Rights Amendment to the Constitution says — i was there in 1964 when it was passed.
@LdyVder why would you want a bunch of judges to do it instead?
DUH!! SCOTUS is a huge mess. Used to have respect for the Supreme Court. None right now.
Sidebar: Chuck Todd keeps up on so many issues. I’m impressed he stays in control of so many discussions.
Supreme Court Justices should not be lifetime appointments!
It’s china ccp wants long time planned china government ccp those judges go deep income money
I’m not saying America has the worst government structure in the world, but, crikey, it has significant issues.
This is what happens when judges are bought by billionaires, it should be called the supreme kangaroo court
Please Roberts is just as bad as the rest of them. If Roberts actually cared, he would forced them to give Obama a pick. Trump hired Kennedy’s son to work in the WH and had him convince his father to leave for another open spot. What needs to happen is that someone read the constitution with all it’s check and balances then send in the DOJ to prosecute anyone that deliberately left information off of a government form. The only way to get criminals out of our government is we have to start locking up the ones we already have.
If Roberts actually cared, he would forced them to give Obama a pick. LOL duh
this country is ungovernable It’s done no turning back.
DON’T STOP DIGGING. Without ethical courts WILLING to accept minimum standards and transparency. Shame on you. Semper Fi
Why does the USA, need 9 SCOTUS ? They can get the work they do done with 5…Eliminate four, and get them back to business…Did you know they have over a HUNDRED, people working for the Court ? These are the people that does the grunt work, and writes the Justice opinions…Plus eliminate the Life sentence, they give the people for each of the Justice…They basically only rule on five, cases a year..
It is an unethical court, how will this be fixed?
I would add, what we are seeing now, is extraordinary DISHONESTY as much as conservatism. Exhibit A is telling senators during confirmation hearings that Roe V Wade is “settled law” before throwing the law away. There is no bigger lie than that. How can you have justice from justices you cannot trust?
Woke media corrupt fbi means law can mot be trusted . No people voted for biden so its not govt by the people. Its gobt by the FBI
This shows that the most important things that need to be considered in confirming a justice or electing anyone are honor, integrity, and collegiality. Should any question arise about any or these traits no matter the philosophy that candidate must be eliminated. { You can’t get rid of them once confirmed.} You can always find someone else who agrees with your philosophy. Thomas and others would never have been confirmed if those characteristics would have been evaluated.
There are 12 federal circuit regions (plus the D.C. court) so we need 12 SCOTUS justices. Expand the court.
How many justices have a financial interest in developing wetlands property, or perhaps a family member or friend? Rescinding wetlands protection will only benefit financial developers…at the cost of ecosystems that sustain us all….these people are corrupt and compromised. We will not fully recover from their damage.
The US Supreme Court does not work as its just a political body. Time for a re-hash of policy and procedure plus to remove life tenure.
Clarence “Uncle” Thomas & his sow wife Ginni are domestic terrorist supporters. Traitors to the US
The GOP has been planning to govern via the courts for the past 20+ years. Even before Mitch, Newt knew they could continue to govern in the minority as long as they controlled the courts and had the electoral college for POTUS.
Fascism destroys.
One sided panel with almost zero context behind the conservative ideological viewpoint.
This is not good.
Public order and good customs are concepts of gender equality in countries such as France, Japan, and Italy! The Chinese government has changed your concept of embezzlement to violate public order and gender discrimination! The Chinese government denies gender equality! Discrimination LGBT!
The court will destroy this country simply because the right wing on it has no moral bearings. They will cause the fragmentation of the USA and will never think twice about it.
Chief Justice Roberts violated a constitution mandate by refusing to preside over the last impeachment. Article 1, section 3 clause 6: “When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside”. “Shall” is a mandates not a suggestion. The only way a Chief Justice could legally avoid presiding over a presidential impeachment is by resigning. Yet he still sits.
They are a bunch of politicians in robes
Chief Justice Roberts has his own ethics issues!
Yes, it most certainly is getting worse. It is time to intervene. Further, DeSantis is not even close to being presidential! Please, pay attention.
This panel 😍