Conservative legal icon denounces Trump and breaks his silence on his 'disappointment' with his friend, Justice John Roberts, in an exclusive interview on the Legal AF YouTube channel
All but 3 of them. Those 6 traitors to their Oath, our Constitution and our country will one day get their comeuppance after WE take back the House and Senate in 2026, and the White House in 2028 and IMPEACH ALL 6 of them and replace them! Then we can get rid of Citizens United, and undo all the damage they’ve done and will continue to do in their treasonous, monstrous form. We MUST do this, and that means everyone has to vote straight blue, no matter who, in every election going forward!
Which is where we’re about to be at if this fuckery continues. And at this point, I welcome civil war rather than roll over and be ruled by these fascist traitors to the Constitution.
Have you ever seen combat? Do you plan to personally take up arms and fight? If not, then don't welcome something you know nothing about and/or won't actively participate in.
I sure do. "Give me liberty or give me DEATH” has always resonated with me. Some of my Ancestors opted to jump off of slave ships and drown themselves in the Atlantic Ocean rather than be held in slavery by the white men who stole them. I’m cut out of the same cloth and I’m not about to give up my freedom to a bunch of inbred neanderthals who are delusional enough to think they’ve been ordained by God to lord over anybody who is not a white man. Heck, even the little old grandmothers in the Ukraine are taking up arms rather than willingly giving away their freedom. Who the hell do you think you are anyway? Just do YOU and don't worry about what my plans are.
Hey Ms. Stout - it's fiery language like yours that inspires me and that will inspire like-minded folks to take back this country that is in the midst of yet another steal. Love your spirit.
Obviously, you don't know her at all. Whatever gave you permission to be so abrupt and hostile in this forum. Shame on you! "Dik" indeed! I am embarrassed for you, but I shan't carry it for more than a few seconds . . .
"Whatever gave [me] permission to be so abrupt and hostile in this forum"? It's called the First Amendment. Perhaps you've heard of it? And really, do you think I haven't heard that comment about my name before? I'm embarrassed for you as well. So sorry you have such a small mind.
I'm sorry that you come across so thin-skinned. Maturity is sometimes more than just growing older. Decades ago I was recommended for a job I didn't get; it contained an observation that I was not one to suffer fools gladly. It had no appreciable impact on a successful career in government and university, but now that is all behind me I don't; have to do anything else except help to advance America's arc through the universe respecting government "by the people, of the people, and for the people." Any help you might give to that end would always be appreciated.
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is reported to have written in his journal regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"
--> No, Amend_1 doesn't give you the unlimited right to be hostile. For example, I can't call you a jack *ss, but I can think it.
Yes, the first Amendment does give me the unlimited right to say things YOU might find hostile. And where did you ever get the idea that you can't call me a jackass? Maybe that word would be banned on some websites, but you are certainly free to call me that as well as think it. I suggest you go back and read the First Amendment. There are certainly a few things that are unprotected speech -- calling me a jackass isn't one of them. Feel free!
OMG u are tiring... are you a bot? crack open a book once in a while...
The First Amendment allows people to express hostile or offensive viewpoints, even those that are deeply unpopular or hateful. However, this protection is not absolute. When hostility manifests as speech that is intended to incite immediate violence, constitutes a credible threat of violence, or falls into the very narrow "fighting words" category, it generally loses First Amendment protection. The line is often drawn where the speech moves from expressing an idea (even a hostile one) to directly causing or intending to cause immediate harm or illegal action.
OMG u are not taking your own advice about cracking open a book once in a while . . . I suspect you're really a MAGAt, as you're resulting to insults here. But to clarify your points: how is my speech intended to incite immediate violence, how does it constitute a credible threat of violence, and how does it fall into the narrow "fighting words" category? How is my speech directly causing or intending to cause immediate harm or illegal action? What illegal action did you have in mind here? What immediate harm is it causing?
I think your problem is less with my speech than the forum in which I am employing it. Were I addressing Trump supporters, pretty sure you'd have no problem with what I'm saying.
Absolutely right. Judge Luttig is amazing!! The vile and cruel Republicans should go to jail. They have condemned many Americans to die a very painful and unnecessary death. I do not know how they can live with themselves and all their phony comments. Gross people. Happy to to be Maple Meidas.
They can live with themselves because they don't care about anyone other than friends and family. They don't care about anything other than money, prestige, and power. That's who politicians are.
Not so amazing. Luttig has a lifetime judicial appointment. He could be sitting on the Federal bench right now, but he doesn't want to? Has better/more important things to do?
I wish it were as easy as you say. First we have to secure a fair election in 2026, and MAGA operators are working hard to prevent that in very devious ways.
There will be elections in 2026. Otherwise, there won’t be a House of Representatives (I think all are up for re-election in 2026) and the majority in the Senate will be Democrats.
And the six corrupt justices on the SC has given him permission. I have NO respect for any of them and they have no respect for the Constitution. They are a disgrace.
Although I did get a notification from my news feed that he said , l will not be able to be President to all Americans. I will not be president to Democrats because I hate them, and they hate me.” (Paraphrased).
I agree, but I think that applies ONLY to the corrupt 6-member Republican majority on the court. Trump appointed 3 of them & will likely appoint at least 2 more, if not 3. That portends a doomed future for our democracy
But Susan…will it be forever changed by Trump. Right now, it is allowing him to break laws right and left. Giving immunity to a President was the worst thing that could’ve happened.
The Supreme Court gave Trump all the legal cover he needs to be one of the most cruel dictators the world has ever known. The SC is the sole reason Trump wasn’t prevented from running for a second term and they prevented the legal system from holding him accountable to the law. If it wasn’t for them, he’d be in jail. Judge Luttig knows Roberts well, considers (considered?) him a friend. He says Roberts is well aware of everything that is happening. He knows he paved the way for authoritarianism, the end of constitutional law, and of democracy.
It's not legal cover by any stretch of the imagination. When a corrupt Justice makes a ruling contradictory to the simple reading of the constitution it isn't legal.
The SC has made a series of rulings favoring Trump , and whether they are unconstitutional or not, they are the law of the land and permit Trump to commit crimes. There is no appeals court to the SC. They are the final authority, corrupt or not. There is no check on their authority. A weak link in the design of our democratic government that just might be our fatal flaw.
It’s legal until it’s challenged. Whatever the Supreme Court says is the law IS the law, even if we know it to be in violation of the true intent of the constitutional meaning. There is no check on the Supreme Court. That’s one of the weak links in our democracy.
My family once had a land grant here in South Carolina from King George, and apparently much for the same reason as as now with Trump; brown-nosing "the King" in some manner.
But after the Revolutionary War it didn't count. Much like the favors Trump gives to America's most self-loathing on a daily basis.
I am 80 years old and wanted to live to 100. With everything Trump has done so far in his total destruction of our country, what do we do now? I am not alone in my fear at what is being done to the country I was born in and loved. I am just an angry, old great grandmother surviving on the SS that was taken out of hundreds of my paychecks so I would be able to live in retirement. NOW what? Judi Karcher
This is the same guy who said that "there is no systemic racism in America", only months after going on record for his claims of being pulled over 17 times in DC for "driving while Black".
Right on Trump-target for covering the very extremes of the issue, providing near 100% deniability with people who never see real news.
Every time he replies, I know I've consumed a tiny bit of GOP resources that will NEVER do the damage they mean to do with every penny they stole from us.
I understand how you are feeling. I am 83 and thought that I might be able to live to be 100, too. Had an aunt that made it to 104 and my only living aunt now is 93. Unfortunately, she is diehard Republican, mind is great, but she is also a racist. I can't be around her because she only watches fox and the tv is on all her waking hours. What we do now is fight back with the truth against their lies, use our voices to tell it like it is, protest if you can and keep saying no more. Traitors are not welcome in our country. Neither are Kings and we will not be another Russia. We are the USA and the people deserve a government that wants the best for their country and it's peoples. What we have now is not a government. I recently signed a petition to try to get this regime out of the WH and hold them accountable for what they have done and what they are doing. If you would like to see this petition google Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one from May 5, 2025 and then the one below it dated 7 days ago. Then after reading them, you decide what you want to do. (The dates on the 7 days ago will change each day to the next day number.) You take care and God Bless.
thereis no god, that's why this shit is happening, has always happened, (read the first book, of the bible, rape, steal, destroy the next village........today, everyday..........
Last time I saw AARP Magazine they were doing a cover puff-piece on GW Bush...you know, the one who started the bloodbath in Afghanistan. I won't have anything to do with that organization.
With Wayne LaPierre tossed out on his ass for embezzlement and corruption (i thought those were features!?!?), it's not the powerful agent of hate it once was.
Yes, change CAN happen! (Same with the ACORN-killing Project Veritas of James O'Keefe, who was also thrown out of his own horrible group!)
to these CREEPS it is, may their children and grandchildren be killed by an ak -47 with...is it a silencer they have now enabled.............may they, their wives, their children be murdered by terropists whom they have empowered by giving them every reason to hate us..........
Passive resistance. Boycott businesses that kneel to Trump. It's working with Tesla to break Musk. A nationwide strike would help big corporations see that they depend on us, not the other way around.
Nationwide strike, huge protests and boycott are all that is left to us. No one is going to solve this for us so either we stand up now we lay down forever. There won’t be another election unless we do something and even if there was, they wouldn’t count the votes correctly. So what are we waiting for?
Any form of nationwide strike would soon have Trump inventing new laws that would make strikers traitors to America and he would turn his version of Hitlers brownshirts onto the strikers, men, women and children. They would be allowed to shoot to kill and the survivors would be incarcerated into concentration camps to die in thousands. It is exactly what that maniac wants to happen. Throughout history, thousands of years, not just 250, despots have ruled this way. Trump is just the latest. Take heart, he can't live for ever. Hitler didn't did he ?.
a nationwide strike wld be the one thing no one has doen.............since they are all about power and money>< listen to me: it's the ONE thing that wld screw them
up their*.............come on people who do this stuff, get it going, DO THIS, TELL US WHAT TO DO, WHO TO BUY FROM, WHO NOT, TALK US ALL INTO IT............IT'S THE ONE THING THAT WILL ACTUALLY BOTHER THEM...............GUNS, ARRESTING PEOPLE,M TAKING THEIR MONEY//////////////DOESN'T BOTHER THEM AT ALL.............NOT TO MENTION MAKING WAR........they don't have a problem with russia taking over a democracy.........why shld they, they are doing it to ours
Some people are not aware of what businesses support / kneel to Trump. My daughter was surprised that Target is one of them. If there IZ a list I will look for it. Apples’ Tom Cook just gave him a 24 carat desk bauble in a visit to the Offal Office. Tom Cook the worm in the Apple. 🐛🥺
OK then. The Dutch (or Belgian whatever you are) are more sophisticated than the French. No matter what, Europeans still remember WWII and how easy it was to allow Fascism in the front door, and, like roaches, how hard it is to keep them out.
This 78-year-old great-grandfather urges you to channel that anger into a desire to live to be (at least) 100. To annoy the MAGAts, to help heal our country. and to enjoy a better tomorrow.
Justice Roberts gave us Citizens United over a decade ago, and now he has helped to unleash a tyrant on our nation. Never in my 70+ years on Earth did I expect to see our democratic republic in such a state.
I still say if corporations are people, there are a lot of CEOs who should be serving prison sentences. That CU ruling started this disaster, no doubt about it, and they finished it off with their immunity ruling. I will never forget or forgive them.
And he and his wife have been reaping the benefits of his position of power just like Alito and Thomas so why would they ever concede to us the real patriots who believe in morality and ethics?
it means it has given money to politics instead of deserving people ever since that right wing judge with no sense of morality or justice put this law through
he is the VOICE of REASON-- which no one in the tRump court has! This is astonishing how quickly our country has turned into a monarchy with the help of SCOTUS members.
We are far past the stage of deciding how bad Trump is, or that there is hard evidence of his crimes. While there are people caught up in the misinformation Trump spreads, even his supporters know he is not a 'good' guy, they just consider him 'useful' for their purposes.
It is time to start acting as though we will win the 2026 elections, and planning for what we do then, with another set of plans once we win the 2028 elections. Sitting here on the sidelines and moaning about how terrible Trump and his enablers are will not gather any more to our side. At this stage everybody thinks they know who Trump is. If you want to change any minds, make the case. Create a website to list ALL his crimes and abuses and sins, incompetencies and breaking of his oath... with ALL of the hard evidence for each of them until everyone will be in one of two camps, either acknowledging his unfitness for office, or denying ALL the evidence presented.
This is a simple set up for impeachment (Use secret ballot in the senate). Make it unbiased, factual, no fundraising, so that people who are curious for the facts will not be chased away, explain the consequences of each crime.
Next is to set up the legislative agenda, while it will be passed in congress, it is mostly about showing what will be passed once we win the Presidency again. Write the laws, plan the investigations, assert the independence of the legislature.
Plan for success, because planning for failure is too easy. Bring confidence and people will respond.
For what it's worth, I for one agree with you, but three months ago I stopped funding the DNC, two days ago I got a Questionnaire from them pitching renewing my support, and I spent the intervening time carefully crafting yet another unacknowledged plea which I KNOW will not be responded to like every other such effort I have taken time to share with them to exactly ZERO response since the fall of 2023. They have no clue on how to approach the obvious coming demise of the American experiment, why it is happening now, and what steps need to be taken. I'll post my letter to DNC tomorrow, but my Dutch heritage tells me my fingers are too small to plug the dike. What's happening now is a function of the DNC's insularity, its failure to conduct the necessary strategic audit, to organize the elected Democrats in Congress to cast themselves as a determined opposition loyal to America's democratic experiment. All DNC can see is elections and raising money. They have no clue how the Court's hijacking by the Federalist Society is implicated, how accidental in some respects Trumps' elevation is, how the more fundamental reasons for Trump's accession to power has to do with the impact of technology (computers, cell phones, so-called 'social' media (which are really its anathema), and the avalanche decline of the legacy media and imperfect replacement by other approaches to discourse, etc.. Fixing it is a long shot. I for one am going to keep showing up in the streets, commons, and wherever until the arc begins to return to our destiny to restore the American experiment to trajectory through the universe. I owe it to my immigrant parents, my kids and my grandkids, and the rest of my nation -- and the world -- to keep alive and strong this nation "of the people, by the people and for the people" to the end it "shall not perish from this earth."
Yes! But WHO will do this? And WHY is “whomever” taking so long to do it? We need ACTION that I was hoping the DNC would supply rather than long, “strongly worded” speeches.
I didn't realize Trump had started posting here under the name Christine. Obviously, that's who you are, as shown by your love of insulting people and calling them names.
Christine is stating the truth. Maybe a little forcefully, but very true. I am an old man in Europe and lived thru WW2 , Hitler and his gang of murdering followers. I really hope and pray you never live thru the same
This country is finished because Americans themselves are too cowardly to stand up to trump, his goons and a Supreme Court that’s been completely commandeered and corrupted by two rotten apples that need to be impeached along with trump: Alito and Thomas. All John Roberts does is stand around with that perpetual smirk on his face as he impotently watches those two charlatans destroy the integrity of the court, the Constitution and the country itself. And as for the 4th of July, it’s a sham holiday that now only stands to mock the American people. I don’t see why anybody is celebrating it now. Happy rich white man’s freedom from the rule of law day!
I will celebrate the Fourth of July for what it stands for not for what they are trying to take away from us. I fly my flag proudly every day because it is the flag of the US not the flag of this regime. If we give up on these things, it would be like throwing in the towel. I will not and cannot do that. I am proud to be an American, but I am not proud of what the traitors are doing to our beloved country. We are not the sinners, they are. Be proud to stand up for your country against this regime. We will fight and we will win because there is no other option.
Ahh, black woman here...I threw in the towel when this country elected trump the first time and showed its true colors. This country has NEVER done right by women or non-white people. I’m still waiting for that so-called “greatness.” I have yet to feel like I have a reason to celebrate this particular day. Ultimately, trump is exactly who America is or he would have never been elected and accepted as a legitimate president the first time, let alone a second one. IF there is an election I’ll vote like I have my entire life, but you shouldn’t automatically assume they’ll be a next election, and if there is, trump will find a way to make nice with Elon long enough to rig it in his favor. Civil war is inevitable and the libs better face reality.
Don't forget to consider what dangers could await you there. Donnie loves Putin and will do nothing to help Ukraine. Putin has been busy destroying politics and elections in Europe too. The tech fascists are also working on global conquest.
It sounds like you think all Americans believe as you do. Hint: they don't. Many Americans are completely OK with Trump and what he's doing. Has nothing to do with being cowardly -- what Trump is doing suits them just fine. Until the Blues acknowledge this and counter with policies that benefit the interests of mainstream Americans rather than catering to the fringe, they'll be sidelined.
I don’t think that ALL Americans believe as I do. As far as I'm concerned those racist misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic , psychopathic MAGA’s can fall off their flat earth along with trump and the rest of his gang of incompetent thugs. They ARE the antisocial “fringe" you speak of. Hint: MAGA’s live to hate, so they will never be satisfied with equality and the fair treatment of all, so fuck ‘em. And as far as the “blue leadership”, they’re riding side by side with republicans on the same corporate money train that services the wealthy so they won’t save us either. I’m ready for the country to divide and new parties emerge out of this pile of garbage and if it takes a civil war, fine.
To wage any kind of armed civil war the Army, Navy, Air Force etc will have to refuse to get involved . Otherwise they will be used as in California recently. To subdue, arrest, beat up any one they feel needs it.
Roberts is a coward and a deep disappointment to every person who believes in the Constitution and the rule of law. He will forever be known as the man who single handedly allowed our democracy to become an autocracy along the lines of the Third Reich.
Fuck Roberts and the robes he ruined our country in.
Actually, Biden should be up there as the man who single handedly allowed our democracy to become an autocracy. Had he fulfilled his pledge to be a bridge president and left his ego at the door, good chance we would not have Trump.
Interesting that Roberts still has some boundaries, yet Trump is still too afraid of him to come up with a childish nickname.
I'm thinking of the continuation of coverage for pre-existing conditions. But I guess even rich people suffer, if only slightly, intermittently and with style and beauty.
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. "This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted …. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Thank you for this. His autobiography is highly recommended. They'll have to break down my door and kill me before they burn my copy. Frederick Douglas is a national treasure, yet these maggots want to erase his shining light and eloquent wisdom from the history books.
From the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass": Douglass marries individual liberty denied to him and how his determination to be free ignited wokeness in his soul: “The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.” The words amaze.
Roberts needs to grow more than a conscience. He needs to grow a spine and other accoutrements. Doesn't he ever contemplate how his court will be viewed by history?
Do you think Roberts cares about how his court will be viewed? I don't. I think he loves the power, prestige, and perks that come with the position. And that's not limited to the Conservative justices. Happened with RBG, too. She should have stepped down when there was the possibility of getting another liberal Justice on the court. Instead, she let her ego have its day and screwed the rest of us.
You may be right. Power corrupts. As for RGB.....she may have thought she'd get the same treatment from Mitch McConnell that Merrick Garland got....Senate kicking the can down the road until a MAGA was picked by the next president. I personally wish they had kept her on life support until Biden entered the White House, but that's just me.
Is there any way to get this interview on right wing news?? Would Luttig be open to speaking out more- I feel like those of us who follow Meidas already know and agree but we need more Trump voters to constantly here this, the truth, facts
The Supreme Court means nothing to me now. They are as crooked as Trump is.
All but 3 of them. Those 6 traitors to their Oath, our Constitution and our country will one day get their comeuppance after WE take back the House and Senate in 2026, and the White House in 2028 and IMPEACH ALL 6 of them and replace them! Then we can get rid of Citizens United, and undo all the damage they’ve done and will continue to do in their treasonous, monstrous form. We MUST do this, and that means everyone has to vote straight blue, no matter who, in every election going forward!
It will take a generation or two. It will NEVER HAPPEN that everyone will vote blue. That is magical thinking.
Impeaching the 6 justices would be a monumental task, and is more likely to take a violent revolution like the Civil War.
Which is where we’re about to be at if this fuckery continues. And at this point, I welcome civil war rather than roll over and be ruled by these fascist traitors to the Constitution.
Have you ever seen combat? Do you plan to personally take up arms and fight? If not, then don't welcome something you know nothing about and/or won't actively participate in.
I sure do. "Give me liberty or give me DEATH” has always resonated with me. Some of my Ancestors opted to jump off of slave ships and drown themselves in the Atlantic Ocean rather than be held in slavery by the white men who stole them. I’m cut out of the same cloth and I’m not about to give up my freedom to a bunch of inbred neanderthals who are delusional enough to think they’ve been ordained by God to lord over anybody who is not a white man. Heck, even the little old grandmothers in the Ukraine are taking up arms rather than willingly giving away their freedom. Who the hell do you think you are anyway? Just do YOU and don't worry about what my plans are.
Hey Ms. Stout - it's fiery language like yours that inspires me and that will inspire like-minded folks to take back this country that is in the midst of yet another steal. Love your spirit.
Bless you and keep you
Well said!!
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Obviously, you don't know her at all. Whatever gave you permission to be so abrupt and hostile in this forum. Shame on you! "Dik" indeed! I am embarrassed for you, but I shan't carry it for more than a few seconds . . .
"Whatever gave [me] permission to be so abrupt and hostile in this forum"? It's called the First Amendment. Perhaps you've heard of it? And really, do you think I haven't heard that comment about my name before? I'm embarrassed for you as well. So sorry you have such a small mind.
I'm sorry that you come across so thin-skinned. Maturity is sometimes more than just growing older. Decades ago I was recommended for a job I didn't get; it contained an observation that I was not one to suffer fools gladly. It had no appreciable impact on a successful career in government and university, but now that is all behind me I don't; have to do anything else except help to advance America's arc through the universe respecting government "by the people, of the people, and for the people." Any help you might give to that end would always be appreciated.
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is reported to have written in his journal regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"
--> No, Amend_1 doesn't give you the unlimited right to be hostile. For example, I can't call you a jack *ss, but I can think it.
Yes, the first Amendment does give me the unlimited right to say things YOU might find hostile. And where did you ever get the idea that you can't call me a jackass? Maybe that word would be banned on some websites, but you are certainly free to call me that as well as think it. I suggest you go back and read the First Amendment. There are certainly a few things that are unprotected speech -- calling me a jackass isn't one of them. Feel free!
OMG u are tiring... are you a bot? crack open a book once in a while...
The First Amendment allows people to express hostile or offensive viewpoints, even those that are deeply unpopular or hateful. However, this protection is not absolute. When hostility manifests as speech that is intended to incite immediate violence, constitutes a credible threat of violence, or falls into the very narrow "fighting words" category, it generally loses First Amendment protection. The line is often drawn where the speech moves from expressing an idea (even a hostile one) to directly causing or intending to cause immediate harm or illegal action.
aka: not unlimited right to be hostile...
OMG u are not taking your own advice about cracking open a book once in a while . . . I suspect you're really a MAGAt, as you're resulting to insults here. But to clarify your points: how is my speech intended to incite immediate violence, how does it constitute a credible threat of violence, and how does it fall into the narrow "fighting words" category? How is my speech directly causing or intending to cause immediate harm or illegal action? What illegal action did you have in mind here? What immediate harm is it causing?
I think your problem is less with my speech than the forum in which I am employing it. Were I addressing Trump supporters, pretty sure you'd have no problem with what I'm saying.
Small mind? Go find a mirror
I’M ALREADY THERE, LOCKED & LOADED…..JUST WAITING!!
Please block people who appear to be only using defeatist language.
Absolutely right. Judge Luttig is amazing!! The vile and cruel Republicans should go to jail. They have condemned many Americans to die a very painful and unnecessary death. I do not know how they can live with themselves and all their phony comments. Gross people. Happy to to be Maple Meidas.
They can live with themselves because they don't care about anyone other than friends and family. They don't care about anything other than money, prestige, and power. That's who politicians are.
And six SC justices.
"I do not know how they can live with themselves..."
They're psychopaths.
Not so amazing. Luttig has a lifetime judicial appointment. He could be sitting on the Federal bench right now, but he doesn't want to? Has better/more important things to do?
I wish it were as easy as you say. First we have to secure a fair election in 2026, and MAGA operators are working hard to prevent that in very devious ways.
You're assuming there will be elections in 2026
There will be elections in 2026. Otherwise, there won’t be a House of Representatives (I think all are up for re-election in 2026) and the majority in the Senate will be Democrats.
Assuming that t doesn't claim an emergency and declare martial law and suspend elections.
DJT said yesterday any election outcome he doesn’t like he will use the levers of his power and overturn the election. That is happening in Florida.
And the six corrupt justices on the SC has given him permission. I have NO respect for any of them and they have no respect for the Constitution. They are a disgrace.
OMG, I didn’t hear about that.
Although I did get a notification from my news feed that he said , l will not be able to be President to all Americans. I will not be president to Democrats because I hate them, and they hate me.” (Paraphrased).
Dream on! The 6 aren't going anywhere until they die or retire. They will never be impeached.
I like to call them "the gang of six".
Sidenote: Has anyone noticed how neatly "blue states vs. red states" aligns with "blue coats vs. red coats"? Just sayin'.
Yes, we mustn’t lump them all together.
Hear hear Sarah!💪🏼💪🏿💪
SARAH, THANK YOU, IOANNA CARLSEN
I agree, but I think that applies ONLY to the corrupt 6-member Republican majority on the court. Trump appointed 3 of them & will likely appoint at least 2 more, if not 3. That portends a doomed future for our democracy
Except Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Jackson is one of the most impressive justices I've seen on the bench—and we can thank Joe Biden for that.
We will have elections!!!!
Say it like a mantra 🕉️
I do…but I’m not as sure as I’ve been…🤷🏼♀️
Same.
The Supreme Court is NOT the incumbents, but an institution that we need to fight for.
But Susan…will it be forever changed by Trump. Right now, it is allowing him to break laws right and left. Giving immunity to a President was the worst thing that could’ve happened.
The Supreme Court gave Trump all the legal cover he needs to be one of the most cruel dictators the world has ever known. The SC is the sole reason Trump wasn’t prevented from running for a second term and they prevented the legal system from holding him accountable to the law. If it wasn’t for them, he’d be in jail. Judge Luttig knows Roberts well, considers (considered?) him a friend. He says Roberts is well aware of everything that is happening. He knows he paved the way for authoritarianism, the end of constitutional law, and of democracy.
Thank you!! Amen.
It's not legal cover by any stretch of the imagination. When a corrupt Justice makes a ruling contradictory to the simple reading of the constitution it isn't legal.
The SC has made a series of rulings favoring Trump , and whether they are unconstitutional or not, they are the law of the land and permit Trump to commit crimes. There is no appeals court to the SC. They are the final authority, corrupt or not. There is no check on their authority. A weak link in the design of our democratic government that just might be our fatal flaw.
It’s legal until it’s challenged. Whatever the Supreme Court says is the law IS the law, even if we know it to be in violation of the true intent of the constitutional meaning. There is no check on the Supreme Court. That’s one of the weak links in our democracy.
They're supposed to interpret the law not rewrite it to suit a religious ideology.
Exactly! But you agree, then, they are indeed re-writing the constitution? That’s unconstitutional!
I think the nickname for The Dump "King George III" is way too kind. "Hitler" is the correct one to use.
My family once had a land grant here in South Carolina from King George, and apparently much for the same reason as as now with Trump; brown-nosing "the King" in some manner.
But after the Revolutionary War it didn't count. Much like the favors Trump gives to America's most self-loathing on a daily basis.
I hadn't thought of that! Good one! Thanks!
As far as nicknames, my own (as far as I know) favorite concoctions are:
Plumpy Grumpy Lumpy Stumpy Jumpy Trumpy
The Killer Wail
The Cowardly Lyin'
A good hobby in bad times...
Wow! And I thought mine was long! Yours is great! Do you have it copyrighted or can I use it in my comments? You're welcome to use mine!
Please, help yourself, Jean.
Anything to help the frustration get out.
Thanks. You, too!
Donald, the little pretend king what really hasn’t a clue abt running a country!
I am 80 years old and wanted to live to 100. With everything Trump has done so far in his total destruction of our country, what do we do now? I am not alone in my fear at what is being done to the country I was born in and loved. I am just an angry, old great grandmother surviving on the SS that was taken out of hundreds of my paychecks so I would be able to live in retirement. NOW what? Judi Karcher
I’m 72. We call our representatives. We support causes that are fighting. I’m not a rich person but we do what we can.
You can do like I do, and receive a FU letter every day or so from Lindsey Graham.
What you receive a letter!!! I don't even get that, but still call everyday and sometimes multiple times a day.
Well, email because that's my request.
But nothing yet from Tim Scott. Not even once...
I've requested emails and letters. Nope, none have arrived
Obviously, not a big surprise.
This is the same guy who said that "there is no systemic racism in America", only months after going on record for his claims of being pulled over 17 times in DC for "driving while Black".
Right on Trump-target for covering the very extremes of the issue, providing near 100% deniability with people who never see real news.
Why do you keep voting for that bitch?
I don't precisely recall EVER voting for a repug since I first voted in 1976.
Certainly not this POS...
(WHy would I get a FU letter from someone I support?)
And why would I pay so much to do it?
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Thanks but no thanks. The situation is bad enough! I won't add that wouss to my life!
Every time he replies, I know I've consumed a tiny bit of GOP resources that will NEVER do the damage they mean to do with every penny they stole from us.
I understand how you are feeling. I am 83 and thought that I might be able to live to be 100, too. Had an aunt that made it to 104 and my only living aunt now is 93. Unfortunately, she is diehard Republican, mind is great, but she is also a racist. I can't be around her because she only watches fox and the tv is on all her waking hours. What we do now is fight back with the truth against their lies, use our voices to tell it like it is, protest if you can and keep saying no more. Traitors are not welcome in our country. Neither are Kings and we will not be another Russia. We are the USA and the people deserve a government that wants the best for their country and it's peoples. What we have now is not a government. I recently signed a petition to try to get this regime out of the WH and hold them accountable for what they have done and what they are doing. If you would like to see this petition google Change.org The People's Petition For Global Against Authoritarianism. Read the one from May 5, 2025 and then the one below it dated 7 days ago. Then after reading them, you decide what you want to do. (The dates on the 7 days ago will change each day to the next day number.) You take care and God Bless.
Reprogram her TV channels so she doesn’t get FOX…😉
Keep fighting, Judy!
thereis no god, that's why this shit is happening, has always happened, (read the first book, of the bible, rape, steal, destroy the next village........today, everyday..........
judi "ditto" And old people matter.
Where the heck has AARP been?!?!
Aren't they the most powerful lobby in America?
Last time I saw AARP Magazine they were doing a cover puff-piece on GW Bush...you know, the one who started the bloodbath in Afghanistan. I won't have anything to do with that organization.
Amen. Me either.
Working with United Health Care to screw over old folks. They should never have gotten into the insurance business.
I think NRA is the most powerful?
With Wayne LaPierre tossed out on his ass for embezzlement and corruption (i thought those were features!?!?), it's not the powerful agent of hate it once was.
Yes, change CAN happen! (Same with the ACORN-killing Project Veritas of James O'Keefe, who was also thrown out of his own horrible group!)
They have been greatly diminished through targeted lawsuits and their own internal corruption.
to these CREEPS it is, may their children and grandchildren be killed by an ak -47 with...is it a silencer they have now enabled.............may they, their wives, their children be murdered by terropists whom they have empowered by giving them every reason to hate us..........
I ask myself the same question, what can we do now that everything is against us.
Passive resistance. Boycott businesses that kneel to Trump. It's working with Tesla to break Musk. A nationwide strike would help big corporations see that they depend on us, not the other way around.
Nationwide strike, huge protests and boycott are all that is left to us. No one is going to solve this for us so either we stand up now we lay down forever. There won’t be another election unless we do something and even if there was, they wouldn’t count the votes correctly. So what are we waiting for?
Jaye Raye,
We can pull off strikes,
huge boycotts, and huge protests. We can keep needling trump in the eye until the cracks appear his thick orange makeup.
We can make a great deal of good trouble. We must.
Anyone else interested?
Any form of nationwide strike would soon have Trump inventing new laws that would make strikers traitors to America and he would turn his version of Hitlers brownshirts onto the strikers, men, women and children. They would be allowed to shoot to kill and the survivors would be incarcerated into concentration camps to die in thousands. It is exactly what that maniac wants to happen. Throughout history, thousands of years, not just 250, despots have ruled this way. Trump is just the latest. Take heart, he can't live for ever. Hitler didn't did he ?.
Start with Facebook, Instagram, What's App, and X. They've brought us this sh*tshow and are keeping it going so they can make even more money off it.
a nationwide strike wld be the one thing no one has doen.............since they are all about power and money>< listen to me: it's the ONE thing that wld screw them
up their*.............come on people who do this stuff, get it going, DO THIS, TELL US WHAT TO DO, WHO TO BUY FROM, WHO NOT, TALK US ALL INTO IT............IT'S THE ONE THING THAT WILL ACTUALLY BOTHER THEM...............GUNS, ARRESTING PEOPLE,M TAKING THEIR MONEY//////////////DOESN'T BOTHER THEM AT ALL.............NOT TO MENTION MAKING WAR........they don't have a problem with russia taking over a democracy.........why shld they, they are doing it to ours
Some people are not aware of what businesses support / kneel to Trump. My daughter was surprised that Target is one of them. If there IZ a list I will look for it. Apples’ Tom Cook just gave him a 24 carat desk bauble in a visit to the Offal Office. Tom Cook the worm in the Apple. 🐛🥺
Bullshit, there is nothing to do. We are totally fucked now. Thank you.
Nationwide strikes work well for the French. Perhaps we're not sophisticated enough to pull that off.
They are better educated
The French sophisticated? LOL. The answer is more likely to be that we're not as homogeneous as the French.
OK then. The Dutch (or Belgian whatever you are) are more sophisticated than the French. No matter what, Europeans still remember WWII and how easy it was to allow Fascism in the front door, and, like roaches, how hard it is to keep them out.
This 78-year-old great-grandfather urges you to channel that anger into a desire to live to be (at least) 100. To annoy the MAGAts, to help heal our country. and to enjoy a better tomorrow.
They do hate it when we don't die on command! (You have 11 years on me.)
Roberts needs to man up and stand by the rule of law, not the dicktator.
He can't. He has proven repeatedly who he is. There is no "manning up".
Exactly. 😏😎
Roberts hates the people of this country.
Except rich white, straight men.
Justice Roberts gave us Citizens United over a decade ago, and now he has helped to unleash a tyrant on our nation. Never in my 70+ years on Earth did I expect to see our democratic republic in such a state.
I still say if corporations are people, there are a lot of CEOs who should be serving prison sentences. That CU ruling started this disaster, no doubt about it, and they finished it off with their immunity ruling. I will never forget or forgive them.
And he and his wife have been reaping the benefits of his position of power just like Alito and Thomas so why would they ever concede to us the real patriots who believe in morality and ethics?
I have been screaming about getting rid of Citizens United, and none of you. Dip shits would listen.
Sorry Christine, that was number two on my list after “money is speech,” so I never got to fix it.
"[S]creaming about getting rid of Citizens United"? What does that mean?
it means it has given money to politics instead of deserving people ever since that right wing judge with no sense of morality or justice put this law through
"Dik" is hopelessly hostile (among other things), . . just ignore him.
he is the VOICE of REASON-- which no one in the tRump court has! This is astonishing how quickly our country has turned into a monarchy with the help of SCOTUS members.
and the GOP.
We are far past the stage of deciding how bad Trump is, or that there is hard evidence of his crimes. While there are people caught up in the misinformation Trump spreads, even his supporters know he is not a 'good' guy, they just consider him 'useful' for their purposes.
It is time to start acting as though we will win the 2026 elections, and planning for what we do then, with another set of plans once we win the 2028 elections. Sitting here on the sidelines and moaning about how terrible Trump and his enablers are will not gather any more to our side. At this stage everybody thinks they know who Trump is. If you want to change any minds, make the case. Create a website to list ALL his crimes and abuses and sins, incompetencies and breaking of his oath... with ALL of the hard evidence for each of them until everyone will be in one of two camps, either acknowledging his unfitness for office, or denying ALL the evidence presented.
This is a simple set up for impeachment (Use secret ballot in the senate). Make it unbiased, factual, no fundraising, so that people who are curious for the facts will not be chased away, explain the consequences of each crime.
Next is to set up the legislative agenda, while it will be passed in congress, it is mostly about showing what will be passed once we win the Presidency again. Write the laws, plan the investigations, assert the independence of the legislature.
Plan for success, because planning for failure is too easy. Bring confidence and people will respond.
For what it's worth, I for one agree with you, but three months ago I stopped funding the DNC, two days ago I got a Questionnaire from them pitching renewing my support, and I spent the intervening time carefully crafting yet another unacknowledged plea which I KNOW will not be responded to like every other such effort I have taken time to share with them to exactly ZERO response since the fall of 2023. They have no clue on how to approach the obvious coming demise of the American experiment, why it is happening now, and what steps need to be taken. I'll post my letter to DNC tomorrow, but my Dutch heritage tells me my fingers are too small to plug the dike. What's happening now is a function of the DNC's insularity, its failure to conduct the necessary strategic audit, to organize the elected Democrats in Congress to cast themselves as a determined opposition loyal to America's democratic experiment. All DNC can see is elections and raising money. They have no clue how the Court's hijacking by the Federalist Society is implicated, how accidental in some respects Trumps' elevation is, how the more fundamental reasons for Trump's accession to power has to do with the impact of technology (computers, cell phones, so-called 'social' media (which are really its anathema), and the avalanche decline of the legacy media and imperfect replacement by other approaches to discourse, etc.. Fixing it is a long shot. I for one am going to keep showing up in the streets, commons, and wherever until the arc begins to return to our destiny to restore the American experiment to trajectory through the universe. I owe it to my immigrant parents, my kids and my grandkids, and the rest of my nation -- and the world -- to keep alive and strong this nation "of the people, by the people and for the people" to the end it "shall not perish from this earth."
I agree with you, especially on the DNC being 'stuck' in fundraising mode and unable to strategize doing anything new.
Yes! But WHO will do this? And WHY is “whomever” taking so long to do it? We need ACTION that I was hoping the DNC would supply rather than long, “strongly worded” speeches.
LOL, Do you actually believe there will be an election
Wake up morons. We are reliving 1934 Nazi Germany
Very much correct.
I didn't realize Trump had started posting here under the name Christine. Obviously, that's who you are, as shown by your love of insulting people and calling them names.
Christine is stating the truth. Maybe a little forcefully, but very true. I am an old man in Europe and lived thru WW2 , Hitler and his gang of murdering followers. I really hope and pray you never live thru the same
Will we be here in 2026 to do any thing?. Elections will gone by then. My optimism is unfortunately waning.
This country is finished because Americans themselves are too cowardly to stand up to trump, his goons and a Supreme Court that’s been completely commandeered and corrupted by two rotten apples that need to be impeached along with trump: Alito and Thomas. All John Roberts does is stand around with that perpetual smirk on his face as he impotently watches those two charlatans destroy the integrity of the court, the Constitution and the country itself. And as for the 4th of July, it’s a sham holiday that now only stands to mock the American people. I don’t see why anybody is celebrating it now. Happy rich white man’s freedom from the rule of law day!
I will celebrate the Fourth of July for what it stands for not for what they are trying to take away from us. I fly my flag proudly every day because it is the flag of the US not the flag of this regime. If we give up on these things, it would be like throwing in the towel. I will not and cannot do that. I am proud to be an American, but I am not proud of what the traitors are doing to our beloved country. We are not the sinners, they are. Be proud to stand up for your country against this regime. We will fight and we will win because there is no other option.
Ahh, black woman here...I threw in the towel when this country elected trump the first time and showed its true colors. This country has NEVER done right by women or non-white people. I’m still waiting for that so-called “greatness.” I have yet to feel like I have a reason to celebrate this particular day. Ultimately, trump is exactly who America is or he would have never been elected and accepted as a legitimate president the first time, let alone a second one. IF there is an election I’ll vote like I have my entire life, but you shouldn’t automatically assume they’ll be a next election, and if there is, trump will find a way to make nice with Elon long enough to rig it in his favor. Civil war is inevitable and the libs better face reality.
Have you read Timothy Egan's book "Fever in the Heartland" or David Zucchino's "Wilmington's Lie"? Proves your points "bigly."
Highly recommended reads for anyone who thinks we haven't been here before or wants to deny our ugly past of racism and violence.
I haven’t read it but will definitely look it up. Thanks!
Both excellent books, well written page turners, scrupulously researched and documented. Spread the word.
Hey, you two, these are the kinds of interactions on Substack that justify the time spent on it. Thank you both!
Thank you, I’m not celebrating because there’s nothing to celebrate. But I’m checking into moving to Europe.
Don't forget to consider what dangers could await you there. Donnie loves Putin and will do nothing to help Ukraine. Putin has been busy destroying politics and elections in Europe too. The tech fascists are also working on global conquest.
It sounds like you think all Americans believe as you do. Hint: they don't. Many Americans are completely OK with Trump and what he's doing. Has nothing to do with being cowardly -- what Trump is doing suits them just fine. Until the Blues acknowledge this and counter with policies that benefit the interests of mainstream Americans rather than catering to the fringe, they'll be sidelined.
I don’t think that ALL Americans believe as I do. As far as I'm concerned those racist misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic , psychopathic MAGA’s can fall off their flat earth along with trump and the rest of his gang of incompetent thugs. They ARE the antisocial “fringe" you speak of. Hint: MAGA’s live to hate, so they will never be satisfied with equality and the fair treatment of all, so fuck ‘em. And as far as the “blue leadership”, they’re riding side by side with republicans on the same corporate money train that services the wealthy so they won’t save us either. I’m ready for the country to divide and new parties emerge out of this pile of garbage and if it takes a civil war, fine.
To wage any kind of armed civil war the Army, Navy, Air Force etc will have to refuse to get involved . Otherwise they will be used as in California recently. To subdue, arrest, beat up any one they feel needs it.
The judge is correct. It’s all over but the shouting. Perhaps a second revolution is in order?
Roberts is a coward and a deep disappointment to every person who believes in the Constitution and the rule of law. He will forever be known as the man who single handedly allowed our democracy to become an autocracy along the lines of the Third Reich.
Fuck Roberts and the robes he ruined our country in.
Roberts will go down in history as one of the worst (less than) Supreme Court justices ever...if not THE worst.
Uncle Thomas and sicko Alito are serious competition for that award.
It doesn’t matter, we are all screwed. Congratulations. All you Maga a holes
I hate every single one of them. I’ve actively sought to not hate my entire life, but I’m tired of their shit. Fuck them all.
Exactly. My father taught me to never hate anyone and I’ve lived by that all my life until MAGA....I HATE them all.
I hate them for making me hate…..
I think Trump's doing that for you. Many of the people who voted for him are going to take the worst hits.
Actually, Biden should be up there as the man who single handedly allowed our democracy to become an autocracy. Had he fulfilled his pledge to be a bridge president and left his ego at the door, good chance we would not have Trump.
I do place blame upon him but not on that extent.
Interesting that Roberts still has some boundaries, yet Trump is still too afraid of him to come up with a childish nickname.
I'm thinking of the continuation of coverage for pre-existing conditions. But I guess even rich people suffer, if only slightly, intermittently and with style and beauty.
You’re a fool if you think everything is OK. Obviously you voted trump so welcome to the world of getting screwed.
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Keep speaking up judge! When you find out the how and why Roberts is doing this to our country, please explain to us what in heck is going on.
Read Mein Kampf and you'll know exactly what's going on.
Trump does have a copy
Indeed. That's his playbook.
Trump is the antichrist and Steven Miller is his hand maiden
I tried to explain it to all of you so many times, but no one listens clutch your pearls and know that the religious right is coming for you.
We need an exorcism in the White House
Frederick Douglass, “West India Emancipation” speech given at Canandaigua, NY, on August 3, 1857 https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress/
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. "This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted …. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Thank you for this. His autobiography is highly recommended. They'll have to break down my door and kill me before they burn my copy. Frederick Douglas is a national treasure, yet these maggots want to erase his shining light and eloquent wisdom from the history books.
From the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass": Douglass marries individual liberty denied to him and how his determination to be free ignited wokeness in his soul: “The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.” The words amaze.
If only Roberts would remember his job, grow a conscience and stop the felon.
It's never happening. He can't grow something that was never planted.
Roberts needs to grow more than a conscience. He needs to grow a spine and other accoutrements. Doesn't he ever contemplate how his court will be viewed by history?
Do you think Roberts cares about how his court will be viewed? I don't. I think he loves the power, prestige, and perks that come with the position. And that's not limited to the Conservative justices. Happened with RBG, too. She should have stepped down when there was the possibility of getting another liberal Justice on the court. Instead, she let her ego have its day and screwed the rest of us.
You may be right. Power corrupts. As for RGB.....she may have thought she'd get the same treatment from Mitch McConnell that Merrick Garland got....Senate kicking the can down the road until a MAGA was picked by the next president. I personally wish they had kept her on life support until Biden entered the White House, but that's just me.
Why we need mandatory retirement ages for justices, judges, and Congress. It's a recurring human weakness and not limited to politicians.
Nope, we’re all screwed and this is how countries topple
Judge Luttig NAILED it. This needs to go viral! Onward to victory over these treasonous traitors.
Is there any way to get this interview on right wing news?? Would Luttig be open to speaking out more- I feel like those of us who follow Meidas already know and agree but we need more Trump voters to constantly here this, the truth, facts