The worst chief justice of all time

[sheshe2]

American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But Chief Justice John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion.

This isn’t about whether there are individual cases from the past that are worse than any individual Roberts-era decision. It’s that compared to previous chief justices, the entire arch of the Robert Court has been about enshrining discrimination into law and protecting the powerful at the expense of the powerless.

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In Roberts’s 20 years atop the Court, conservatives have rolled back the already meager protections for LGBTQ people, making sure to finish the most recent term by kicking trans kids in the teeth. Reproductive rights have been comprehensively gutted, from allowing private for-profit companies to invoke religion to refuse to provide birth control coverage to overturning the constitutional right to abortion. Also, racism is apparently completely fixed, so school desegregation and affirmative action had to go. So too did the core of the Voting Rights Act, letting Roberts fulfill his lifelong ambition of making it harder for Black people to vote.

There’s an obvious connection between the Fuller Court’s fiction that workers and employers have the same amount of power and the Roberts Court’s open and obvious goal of tilting the playing field toward employers. More workers are being forced to agree to arbitration, which strongly favors employers, and waive their right to bring class actions. Public sector unions are now barred from collecting fair share fees, undercutting their ability to bargain collectively. But don’t worry: per Justice Samuel Alito, that’s totally fine because of the “considerable windfall that unions have received.” Roberts spared America the tyranny of a requirement that agriculture companies allow labor organizers to come onto their property, saying that such a requirement was a “taking” by the government for which the employers needed to be compensated.

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— Poli Alert (@polialert.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T00:25:49.248Z

Sure, trump is bad, but for 20 years Roberts and his conservative court have taken away Americans rights, free will and our dignity.

[SheltieLover]

1. Absofuckingloutely!

[LakeVermilion]

2. If Roberts reads the Bible,

he should be aware that Christ is a liberal.

[LT Barclay]

7. Finished it a few times. Without exception there is not a single conservative political value that is supported by the

bible. NOT A SINGLE ONE!

[LakeVermilion]

9. You should start a thread with that comment.

Just sayin!

[LT Barclay]

10. I do need to. I promised someone that I would post the 7 pages of scripture I have that supports every tenet of

environmentalism. I've challenged pastors and bible school graduates to list the issues and go through them one by one comparing democratic vs. republican views on each to the bible. I've been turned down every time.
The last time was when I had to e-mail the pastor of the church that held a blessing when he asked the congregation to bring their AR-15's to church. I told him the book I would be using to help me and he accused me of something called the "red letter fallacy" which apparently is, get this, giving TOO MUCH credence to the words of Jesus over the other writings in the New Testament.

[LakeVermilion]

14. That's why...

Republicans choose the Ten Commandments over the Beatitudes. It seems to me that they throw the name Jesus Christ around, but belittle his teachings.

[Marie Marie]

3. Not to mention the corruption his wife brings to the mix.

[Celerity]

13. Jane Sullivan Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, generated $10.3 million in commissions as a legal

recruiter over an eight-year period, according to internal records cited by Business Insider.

Roberts, who worked at legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa, generated the commissions from the years 2007 to 2014, according to the Business Insider story, which was noted by How Appealing.

“Roberts’ apparent $10.3 million in compensation puts her toward the top of the pay scale for legal headhunters,” according to the article.

Her “attributed revenue” to Major Lindsey was $13.3 million during that time. The commissions were her share of the revenue.

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https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/wife-of-chief-justice-roberts-generated-10m-in-commissions-in-this-job-whistleblower-says

[swong19104]

4. Installed by the worst president

BDT (Before Donnie Trump).

[madamesilverspurs]

5. His job is the reward

for his work on the legal team that conned the Rehnquist court into handing the presidency to W; lawyers on that team included Kavanaugh and Barrett. Do we feel suckered, yet?


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[Trust_Reality]

8. Absolutely

[Cha]

11. Yeah, Traitor is a Lethal Danger to

the Whole World But Roberts & the 6 SC Magat Fascists are Assisting it.

So yes the Worst chief SCJ ever in existence.

It's written all over his face. Corrupt as Hell. I hope history drags them through the Muc where they belong.

TY, she

[H2O Man]

12. Definitely recommended.

It is a sad thing, indeed, that Injustice Roberts is intimidated by Injustice Thomas. Yet, he is of at least equal intelligence, and knows better. He is a cowardly man who has betrayed his oath of office and his country.

[BurnDoubt]

15. Nobody is safe except for the obscenely wealthy.

The Right Wing has solved the immigration problem.
Making the US into a shit-hole country where no one wants to live except christo-Fascists and mysogenists.