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James Dannenberg has castigated John Roberts for allowing the Supreme court to be perverted by right-wing political activism.
He denounced Chief Justice John Roberts thus ... "You are allowing the Court to become an “errand boy” for an administration that has little respect for the rule of law."
Republicans are proud of having turned judicial appointments into political circuses where even incompetents are proposed as judges as long as they are far-right-wing extremists.
The US judicial system has been perverted and corrupted by Donald Trump and the GOP.
Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar in a Letter to John Roberts
He denounced Chief Justice John Roberts thus ... "You are allowing the Court to become an “errand boy” for an administration that has little respect for the rule of law."
Republicans are proud of having turned judicial appointments into political circuses where even incompetents are proposed as judges as long as they are far-right-wing extremists.
The US judicial system has been perverted and corrupted by Donald Trump and the GOP.
Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar in a Letter to John Roberts
Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar
In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed why he’s lost faith in the court.
By DAHLIA LITHWICK
MARCH 13, 20203:22 PM
James Dannenberg is a retired Hawaii state judge. ... he wrote ...
The Chief Justice of the United States
One First Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20543
March 11, 2020
Dear Chief Justice Roberts:
I hereby resign my membership in the Supreme Court Bar.
This was not an easy decision. I have been a member of the Supreme Court Bar since 1972, far longer than you have, and appeared before the Court, both in person and on briefs, ... You are allowing the Court to become an “errand boy” for an administration that has little respect for the rule of law.
The Court, under your leadership and with your votes, has wantonly flouted established precedent. Your “conservative” majority has cynically undermined basic freedoms by hypocritically weaponizing others. The ideas of free speech and religious liberty have been transmogrified to allow officially sanctioned bigotry and discrimination, as well as to elevate the grossest forms of political bribery beyond the ability of the federal government or states to rationally regulate it. More than a score of decisions during your tenure have overturned established precedents—some more than forty years old– and you voted with the majority in most. There is nothing “conservative” about this trend. This is radical “legal activism” at its worst.
Without trying to write a law review article, I believe that the Court majority, under your leadership, has become little more than a result-oriented extension of the right wing of the Republican Party, as vetted by the Federalist Society. Yes, politics has always been a factor in the Court’s history, but not to today’s extent. Even routine rules of statutory construction get subverted or ignored to achieve transparently political goals. The rationales of “textualism” and “originalism” are mere fig leaves masking right wing political goals; sheer casuistry.
Your public pronouncements suggest that you seem concerned about the legitimacy of the Court in today’s polarized environment. We all should be. Yet your actions, despite a few bromides about objectivity, say otherwise.
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I no longer have respect for you or your majority, and I have little hope for change. I can’t vote you out of office because you have life tenure, but I can withdraw whatever insignificant support my Bar membership might seem to provide.
Please remove my name from the rolls.
With deepest regret,
James Dannenberg