Charles Krauthammer Comments On Chief Justice John Roberts' Response To Obama's Attack On The Supreme Court

Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, please step down and join the tea party protestors
In response to a question, Chief Justice John Roberts stated President Obama's first State of the Union address has "degenerated into a political pep rally." He further claimed, “The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering, while the Court, according to the requirements of protocol, has to sit there, expressionless, I think is very troubling." Sit there expressionless -...

No Apologies for Obama's Supreme Court Slap
Chief Justice John Roberts is getting quite a lesson in First Amendment law - from legal scholar Barack Obama. The White House indicated the chief justice shouldn’t expect any apologies in response to Roberts’ complaint that it was “very troubling” that Obama used the Jan. 27 State of the Union address to cite his disagreement with a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in favor of unbridled corporate and special interest Campaign Contributions. Roberts was sitting front and center...

The majestic petulance of John Roberts
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address was " very troubling " . . . . Obama chided the Court, with the justices seated before him in their black robes, for its decision on a Campaign Finance case. . . . Responding to a University of Alabama law student's question, Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the Court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions. "So I have no problems with that," he...

White House: Supreme Court Justices Chose to be at State of the Union
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts address students at the University of Alabama Law School in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 9, 2010. (Credit: AP) White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has again hit back at Chief Justice John Roberts' comments concerning President Obama's criticism of the Supreme Court at his State of the Union address. Gibbs said Thursday that the president's speech didn't seem like a "pep rally" to him and noted that the Justices were not forced to attend. On Tuesday,...

Gibbs: Supreme Court Shouldn't Have Been Uncomfortable At SOTU -- Citizens United Was Their Decision! (VIDEO)
The clash between the White House and Supreme Court sparked anew this afternoon as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs challenged Chief Justice John Roberts' criticism of the president's State of the Union address. "It didn't seem like a pep rally to me," Gibbs said today at his daily briefing with reporters, responding to Roberts telling law students this week he didn't seen the point in the high Court attending the State of the Union. The spat started at the address when President...

Chief Justice John Roberts Should Man Up And Attend SOTUs
This week, of course, he's made headlines for complaining about President Barack Obama picking on the Supreme Court during his State of the Union for the Court's 5-to-4 decision in the Citizens United case which freed corporations from venerable limits that had restricted their political advertising. As most news junkies know by now, Roberts told law students at the University of Alabama that he opposed criticism of the Supreme Court, he doesn't. But it was the venue that bothered him. His...

Gibbs Fires Back At Chief Justice Roberts Over Obama Criticism
The White House fired back at Justice John Roberts Tuesday night , after the Supreme Court Chief told a crowd that he found it "very troubling" that President Barack Obama would criticize the Court during his State of the Union address . In a statement sent to reporters, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the only troubling thing was the 5-4 ruling by the Court, which said that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of money advocating on behalf of...

Hail to the chief justice
When the young John Roberts was confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States in 2005, he declined to put those gold stripes on his robes. They're the ones that the late William Rehnquist had devised to indicate his status as first among equals on the nation's high Court. "I'll have to earn them," Roberts said modestly. He just did. He gave a powerful rejoinder this week to President Obama's unprecedented foray into demagoguery. It's more than a tempest in a teapot. Last...

John Roberts' nonpartisan attack on presidential partisanship.
Chief Justice John Roberts is hopping mad at President Barack Obama for criticizing the Supreme Court during his January State of the Union speech. In fact, he's so mad, he had to fly all the way out to the University of Alabama School of Law to chide the

Harry Reid and Robert Gibbs All Wee Weed Up About Justice John Roberts
Robert Gibbs told reporters he doesn’t know why the Supreme Court Justices would be uncomfortable at criticism by the President at the State of the Union address. You know, as Justice Roberts recently pointed out, where they’re surrounded by politicians cheering and jeering while decorum requires the Justices to sit quietly by. Well, nobody’s ever accused this administration of having good manners. The same can be said for Harry Reid, who wanted to get in on the action . Now,...

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts: "I think the process is broken down,"
There is comfort in Robert's speaking out. It's going to take incredibly brave men to speak out in the age of Obama. America is doing it and is summarily ignored. You can ignore some of the peope some of the time, but you cannot ignore all of the people all of the time and not expect a ....backlash. Roberts: Scene at State of the Union 'Very Troubling' AOL news TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (March 9) -- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's...

Roberts on the SOTU (that Sonofagun Obama Troubles Us)
I was at Chief Justice Roberts' Albritton Lecture yesterday at my school, the University of Alabama.  (Well, I was in an overflow room.  Same difference.)  As the media has  reported , Roberts had some tough words about the Justices' attendance at the State of the Union address, where Obama criticized the Court for its decision in Citizens United.  He said he had no problem with a public official voicing criticism of the decisions of the Court.  But...

Chief Justice Gets Mud on His Robes
It was highly unusual for Obama to call out the Supreme Court during his State of the Union speech, but Chief Justice John Roberts appears to be entering undiscovered country by firing back. Earlier this week, Roberts called Obama's criticism of the Court's ruling in a momentous Campaign Finance case “very troubling” and opined that the annual presidential address has “degenerated into a political pep rally.” In the spectrum of our public discourse, Roberts...

Robert Gibbs Asked About Justice Roberts and Says "Polls Show 80% of the Country Disagrees With That Decision"
Bagdad Bob is asked about the comments of Chief Justice John Roberts Roberts said the SOTU became a political pep-rally Here's one fact about the Supreme Court that's really sad, John Paul Stevens nominated in 1975 by Gerald Ford, will be 90 years old in April and Obama has almost 3 years left in his first term, don't be surprised to see this Justice retire especially if it looks like Obama will lose re-election, he is on the liberal side of the Court, and libs get replaced with libs...Thanks a...

White House Spars With the Chief Justice
The White House is hitting back against criticism from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday, when he complained about the political scene surrounding the State of the Union speech when President Obama criticized a Supreme Court decision on Campaign financing. Mr. Roberts told a University of Alabama audience that the setting at the joint session of Congress degenerated into a pep rally, which he found "very troubling." Mr. Obama had directly singled out a recent ruling,...

The Long-Running John Roberts"Barack Obama Feud Continues
During a talk at the University of Alabama yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts went ballistic , relatively, over President Obama's State of the Union speech, in which the president condemned the Supreme Court's recent ruling on corporate political spending. Roberts said he was fine with anyone criticizing the Court, but: "On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum. The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally...

Chief Justice Roberts on SOTU: Not sure why we were there.
In happier times, Chief Justice John Roberts (back to the camera) was flubbing the oath of office to President Obama. (AP/Hong) Chief Justice John Roberts has finally spoken out on President Obama's attempt to intimidate his branch of government during the State of the Union address. From the Los Angeles Times : Speaking in response to a law student's question, Roberts said anyone could criticize the court and, indeed, our governmental system of separation of powers encourages such...

The Nuts Attack On Roberts
Chief Justice John Roberts, in responding to a question during a law school forum, took the very reasonable position that what happened at the State of the Union address was troubling : "First of all, anybody can criticize the Supreme Court without any qualm," he said, adding that "some people, I think, have an obligation to criticize what we do, given their office, if they think we've done something wrong." "So I have no problems with that. On the other hand, there is the issue of the...

Chief justice reignites feud with Obama
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s impromptu portrayal Tuesday of President Obama's attacks on the high court during the State of the Union address as "very troubling" drew a brusque retort from the White House, which called the court's Campaign Finance ruling the real problem, and from Democrats eager to attack the court. Responding to a law student's question when speaking at the University of Alabama, Chief Justice Roberts took aim at Mr. Obama's public chiding in January, saying the annual...

It's Politics, Stupid, Er, Mr. Chief Justice
Fear not, America, we are not experiencing a constitutional crises as the three branches of government battle one another for political/ideology supremacy. It’s simply a family spat in an arena which has evolved to severe polarization. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts told Alabama law students Tuesday the president’s State of the Union address was a political pep rally. Big deal. In his Jan. 27 speech, a constitutional requirement, Obama criticized the Court’s 5-4...

Expressionless, Mr. Chief Justice?
A bit more on U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' whining about being taken to task by the President for undermining a century of established law (a.k.a. Activist Judges) ... here's Roberts' complaint: The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the Court — according the requirements of protocol — has to sit there expressionless, I think is very...

State of Disunion
President Obama has received criticism from yet another Supreme Court justice concerning his inappropriate and unprecedented chastisement of the Court during the State of the Union address.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Obama White House: a tit for tat
Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday, in response to an audience question, he was troubled that President Obama used the occasion of his State of the Union address to criticize a Supreme Court ruling. The Obama White House, in turn, reiterated its objection to the Court's decision. Before President Obama's first State of the Union address Jan. 27, he greeted Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court. During the address, the president criticized the high Court's recent Campaign-finance...

Doug Kendall: Citizens United Changed Everything
It has been a month-and a-half since the Supreme Court's monumentally wrong 5-4 ruling in Citizens United , and there is no sign that the firestorm the ruling set off in Washington and around the country is going to die any time soon. On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts weighed in on the brouhaha over President Obama's criticism of the ruling at his State of the Union address, and Justice Alito's silent rejoinder, suggesting that the Justices might not attend future addresses. The...

Justices and politicians should boycott the State of the Union
The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the State of the Union and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union." But a reaction may be brewing against these embarrassing events. Speaking in Alabama, Chief Justice John Roberts said "to the extent that" this occasion "has degenerated into a political pep...