Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
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This will be his epitaph. Or, justice who turned his back on the law.
aug 21, 2025, 10:19 pm • 9 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
Required reading for all who love, dare I say, loved our democracy.
aug 22, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
This one judge has more integrity and courage than the entire democratic party. Is it any wonder democrats are losing support? They are cowering in the face of tyranny.
aug 22, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you Judge Luttig.
aug 22, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
His whole life he defended the rule of law right up until the pinnacle of becoming a Supreme Court Judge. Then Trump came along and had him drink the Kool-Aid and he threw his legacy out the window for a lunatic.
aug 22, 2025, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
The federalist society grew him and the others in test tubes, supported, immersed and guided them through the right-wing legal pipeline for just this purpose. trump is leveraging the tools that the right-wing elite has been putting into place for decades. It’s not at all just him.
aug 22, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 1 • view
Shout out to the previous worst president ever!
aug 21, 2025, 11:42 pm • 8 0 • view
100%
aug 22, 2025, 12:04 am • 2 0 • view
trump makes him seem fantastic🙄
aug 22, 2025, 6:02 am • 0 0 • view
Do you think he cares?
aug 21, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
#NiceLegacyYaGotThereRoberts
aug 22, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
And he has to go to the Guardian to do it. If only he'd throw in a few sheet pan recipes!
aug 22, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I want treason trials
aug 22, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
Honestly believe being threatened. Understand how much more complete and total the tyranny we are living under actually is—in a couple of ways. Does not excuse. But does help explain.
aug 22, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely unjustifiable, and unforgivable
aug 21, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutel terrible Chief Justice!
aug 23, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Trumps actions are tran$actional, so what is SCOTUS getting? We know they like paid luxury yacht trips
aug 23, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
CORRUPT FASCIST SCOTUS
aug 22, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
Hundreds of years WASTED preparing for a race war against black people. Billions spent making firearms companies rich in an attempt to 'arm themselves' when the "race" they NEEDED to worry about was ALWAYS their own. What you do to others you will eventually do to your own. Same as it ever was,
aug 23, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Here's a version with alt text included in recognition of the 35th anniversary of the ADA passing
aug 21, 2025, 9:14 pm • 76 25 • view
Russia, if you are listening- Please tell us who owns John Roberts, and how many Supreme Court Justices are on the Supreme Court. Thank-you for your attention to this matter.
aug 22, 2025, 12:00 am • 1 0 • view
CBS News tonight showed his “truth social” post about the gerrymandering in Texas, straight up KKK. He said this is our “America first” agenda.
aug 23, 2025, 11:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I meant to add the hoods are off now.
aug 23, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 0 • view
thank you, I (and many others) don't share without it. Particularly troubling when it's a block of text, and alt is so easy to do.
aug 21, 2025, 9:52 pm • 19 0 • view
I wondered about that. I wasn’t sure if readers could read a block of text in an image. I have been trying to be better about adding alt text so glad to know even this type of image needs it.
aug 22, 2025, 1:08 am • 6 0 • view
Very welcome!
aug 22, 2025, 1:16 am • 2 0 • view
Judge Luttig is a wise man.
aug 22, 2025, 12:28 am • 2 0 • view
SCumOfTheUS…….:
aug 23, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I find Roberts’ reaction to discovering those “different” liberals at Harvard truly fascinating when contrasted with this recent Pritzker speech. 🤔 bsky.app/profile/ging...
aug 23, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 9:46 am • 0 0 • view
The court de-legitimized itself with Dobbs. It's a false court with no meaning.
aug 22, 2025, 2:20 am • 4 1 • view
And vastly more clearly and honestly than most law professors and legal journalists
aug 22, 2025, 4:58 am • 0 0 • view
Judge Luttig’s been out since 2006—so why the sudden voice now? Silent through the GOP-Federalist heist of three SCOTUS seats, but found his tongue to endorse Harris? Maybe back then, the theft felt justified. #GoldStarDad
aug 23, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
At some point, sooner than later, We need to shut this country down by protesting the way Europe does. Then support Democrats without criticism- nothing but a full push of support! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇺🇸👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
aug 23, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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The banality of evil.
aug 23, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
The republicans of the SCOTUS should all be in prison for supporting trump!
aug 22, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Could not be more clear when you read the words of a distinguished conservative judge. The conservative members of SCOTUS are a betrayal to our courts and system of justice.
aug 21, 2025, 10:42 pm • 4 1 • view
I think we can all agree that honesty is a refreshing change, especially when it comes to the Supreme Court. Luttig's words are a stark reminder that sometimes, the truth is more uncomfortable than a sugarcoated version, but it's exactly what we need to hear.
aug 23, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 1 • view
#SupremelyCorruptCourt
aug 22, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
Just calling the balls and strikes.
aug 23, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
“Flippantly” is the perfect adverb for these 6 smart asses. They’re smug, not serious,
aug 22, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
The Guardian article was so much—chilling, on point, relevant, detailed.
aug 21, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Luttig is calling it as it really is why aren’t more people and why is the media failing this moment so damn bad ?!
aug 24, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Roberts has ushered in the end of the rule of law and the end of democracy.
aug 22, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Roberts has turned SCOTUS into nothing more than Trump's racketeering enforcer
aug 22, 2025, 12:16 am • 4 0 • view
Must read: "Lawless" by Leah Litman
aug 23, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
So brave of you to blame Democrats for the horrific behavior of Republicans.
aug 21, 2025, 11:55 pm • 2 0 • view
No shit. It takes Littig to make that clear? Is there anything about the SCOTUS that has been more obvious? Roberts should invite Trump to the supreme Court one day and just put a fucking crown on his head. Maybe then it would be intuitively obvious to everybody.
aug 22, 2025, 1:18 am • 3 0 • view
He’s wrong that the Supreme Court has never acted this way
aug 22, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
He is not.
aug 22, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 0 • view
Criminal in the WH, criminals in the Cabinet, accessory to felon in Congress, why not in SCOTUS...RICO in action...Fascist America. Now, what was wrong with being "Anti-Fa scist"?
aug 22, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
At a time in the nation's history when we absolutely needed a strong Supreme Court to defend our freedoms we got possibly the weakest court in history. The Roberts era will be remembered for failing to reign in the presidency also giving it immunity.
aug 22, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
In Judge Luttig's view, the court under Roberts is "acquiescing in and accommodating the president's lawlessness. And it is doing so without briefing, without argument, without deliberation - and without even a single word of explanation of its decisions.” Conservative with a conscience.
aug 21, 2025, 11:12 pm • 1 0 • view
The chief is useless.
aug 22, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
Judge Luttig is Spot On. Robert’s and many cohorts follow Dominion Theory and our Democracy is in trouble.
aug 22, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 1 • view
It’s time to stop abiding by the supreme courts decisions. They do not represent the constitution.
aug 21, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
And to have such an insipid man, yes JR, responsible for the Constitutional demise.
aug 22, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
What an informative read! For someone such as Luttig to condemn Roberts as having "utterly failed" is pretty damning. If Roberts is so obsessed with his media reception as reported, he should hopefully be quite miserable.
aug 21, 2025, 10:22 pm • 25 3 • view
It is clear Roberts doesn’t care
aug 23, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats are totally fucking worthless. If we continue to think they’re the answer, we’re fucked. We can say a third party will never work, and maybe it’s true, but if also means we’re fucked. Cuz it’s the only way out of this. Or else we’re fucked.
aug 22, 2025, 12:33 pm • 0 0 • view
What a stain this SCOTUS has been under Roberts with the rule of law..He needs to be held accountable or his court needs to be disbanded before it does more harm to this country
aug 21, 2025, 11:50 pm • 4 0 • view
It’s old news at this point, but if you’ve lost Mike Luttig, you’ve lost the plot. I’ve honestly been shocked at how willing he’s been to break from Roberts. I wonder if there’s something about being spurned from the Supreme Court that unburdens one.
aug 22, 2025, 1:18 am • 1 0 • view
aug 23, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
What they don’t realize it would be their kids and grandchildren bearing the fruit of his actions
aug 23, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Mad Magazine 1968. On truth social today, he posted that Gerrymandering TX is “America First.“ This is straight up racial, it comes from the KKK. Adolf Coors backed $ the heritage foundation, 🍊 father, the SA “immigrants,” are fascists who came here to destroy the USA 🇺🇸.
aug 23, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
In times of real crisis, many shrink, even those you felt sure would stand. Some stand bravely, even a few you never imagined would.
aug 21, 2025, 9:02 pm • 193 14 • view
To understand my astonishment, the way I viewed Luttig 25 years ago was analogous to how some of you view James Ho today.
aug 21, 2025, 9:14 pm • 181 11 • view
I don't have a lot of great things to say about Luttig, but I can at least say the man has consistent principles and he's not afraid to tell off literally anyone.
aug 21, 2025, 10:38 pm • 7 1 • view
Same. In the Wilkinson-Luttig fights, I thought Luttig came off as the extremist.
aug 21, 2025, 11:11 pm • 3 0 • view
So so true. It’s like Bill Kristol. I am amazed at how they have stood up in ways that the Democrats have mostly failed to do.
aug 21, 2025, 9:17 pm • 148 5 • view
You mean Bill "wrong about everything until 2015 or so" Kristol? I am not at all comfortable finding myself agreeing with him.
aug 21, 2025, 11:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Too bad they didn't stand up years ago and save us all this bullshit.
aug 21, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Too bad people didn't vote last November. Let them off the hook if you want, of course, but then you'll be blaming the same set next time.
aug 21, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
That's a different issue. I'm talking about the Republicans who have "reformed". That's all very well, but I have no intention of letting them off the hook for their past sins. They played a significant role in bringing fascism to the US.
aug 21, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
They will undoubtedly go back when the inconveniently icky Trump is in his grave.
aug 21, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't know if they will, but right now they need to be pro-Democrat, not merely anti-Trump.
aug 21, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly
aug 21, 2025, 9:20 pm • 40 1 • view
This era has revealed so much about so many people.
aug 23, 2025, 4:41 pm • 3 1 • view
Are you daft? Look at those repugs in Congress (Jordan, Comer, Johnson) & Senators (Scott, Cruz, Mullen), they are the biggest cowards and they will not stand up to the pedo pres! Don't blame Dems! Please!
aug 25, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I may be daft but Sara for sure isn’t.
aug 25, 2025, 11:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Depends on the topic.
aug 26, 2025, 1:18 am • 1 0 • view
Bill Kristol? Seriously? He gave us Sara Palin!
aug 25, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
True enough. Don’t forget he was a leading proponent of the Iraq invasion, and helped sink Clinton’s health care push, too. And oh I how I wish Schumer or Jeffries would speak up against Trump even half as forcefully as he has.
aug 26, 2025, 12:03 am • 1 0 • view
Agreed. Dems should be screaming everyday about the Pedo pres & stop showing division. Forget about Mamdani. Pritzker & Newsom have stepped up.
aug 26, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
Not American but as I have commented before you have a situation in the US since 2016 in which one half of the electorate overriding responsibility is to prevent the other half of the electorate from repeatedly punching themselves in the face, this reality is not sustainable, it just isn't.
aug 23, 2025, 3:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Late to this convo today, but I whole heartedly agree! I’ve been so cynically waiting for Judge Luttig to soften or change the manner of his criticism (as others have) but he’s resolute. And my impression is he’s sincerely uncomfortable with his current role, but to your point - stands bravely.
aug 22, 2025, 4:36 am • 2 1 • view
Same. I have revised my view of him. I probably disagree with him on many things, but he is lucid, focused, and on the right side of history on the issues that have arisen in relation to 1/6 and the present times.
aug 21, 2025, 9:20 pm • 16 3 • view
I saw him speak on a panel at the first ACS conference (as a token conservative, obv) & was surprised he sounded so reasonable. He was a frightening figure back then.
aug 26, 2025, 1:47 am • 1 0 • view
a constitutionalist is just that... pol ideology be damned
aug 21, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Well said. The next few years are going to be quite clarifying.
aug 22, 2025, 5:34 am • 0 0 • view
Lock Robert’s up for treason
aug 22, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Judge Luttig is a god. If anyone saves America, it will have been he. A hero for our times.
aug 22, 2025, 12:20 am • 1 0 • view
Robert’s is a straight klansman no matter his appearance
aug 23, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry but I’ve heard Dems talking this way about the SC.
aug 23, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 8:20 am • 0 0 • view
manningkrull.com/digital-phil...
aug 22, 2025, 9:14 am • 1 0 • view
No US newspaper had the balls to publish this. That's where we are now.
aug 23, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
M🍑! When Supreme Court Justices rule with no reason, obviously ignoring and violating the Constitution, Congress has a duty to the Constitution to Impeach, Convict, and Remove them.
aug 23, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
Soo.... might any of the justices be named in the Epstein files?
aug 22, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 0 • view
Yes, he’s shown real bravery. It also illuminates the cowardice of people like Thomas Griffith who continues to equivocate and hedge.
aug 23, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Judge Luttig doesn't have any cases that will proceed to the Supreme Court and be judged by Roberts. So it's not that flabbergasting.
aug 23, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Dred Scott is alive and well.
aug 23, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
History will not be kind.
aug 23, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Has it EVER occurred to any scholar the conservatives on this Supreme Corrupt Court had campaigned & waited a lifetime to do EXACTLY what they are doing to the Constitution? They just NEVER had a blatantly overt White Supremacist POTUS! Hiding in plain sight to allow them to rip it apart! IMO!
aug 22, 2025, 12:28 am • 6 0 • view
Worst Supreme court ever.
aug 23, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
It's the Shadow Docket on the Rocket Docket... with steroids.
aug 22, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
Great article.
aug 22, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
All Americans blind ourselves to the darker side of our diversity and try to focus on the positive. From our arrival, some of us came here to Found New Feudal Fiefdoms out of the wilderness and become The New Lords of America. It was passed down, generation to generation. They're still here.
aug 22, 2025, 2:54 am • 1 1 • view
Because I look and talk like them, and don't advertise my social rebellious upbringing, they tell me the craziest things - Only those who own land should get to vote. Taxes ARE slavery. This is about INDIVIDUAL rights Basically, they read the constitution as giving them the right to conquer.
aug 22, 2025, 2:54 am • 2 1 • view
As I think about it, the American constitution was written when the goal was conquering a continent of heathen savages and bringing them Jesus. The right to conquer was probably implied - 250 YEARS AGO!!!
aug 24, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
While we were all diverted with rights to privacy, when life begins and such they snuck a bunch of wanna be nobility onto the court, and we never thought to ask the right questions. When we did ask, like with Bourque, they're lawyers. They weasel worded their way through but never answered.
aug 22, 2025, 2:54 am • 1 1 • view
Meanwhile they kept telling us we must do to prevent this and we constantly ignored them - amend the constitution! We got away with laws which didn't pass rigorous constitutional analysis by appointing activist courts. Now, we're paying the butcher's bill.
aug 22, 2025, 2:54 am • 1 1 • view
We have lost democracy in America. It's not when or if. It's NOW! The question now is HOW do we get back our Democracy?
aug 21, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Roberts helped in giving us 8 years of Dubya and handed immunity to Trump. He works for the mafia organization that is the GOP.
aug 21, 2025, 10:13 pm • 22 0 • view
100%. The Bush Family Network rewarded Roberts with SCOTUS and the Roberts6 are all each one of them tied to the Bush Family Network
aug 22, 2025, 12:03 am • 4 0 • view
"The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was. Whatever comes next, should the country weather this attempted hijacking, will need to be a fundamental rethinking of what this system is and what we want out of it." @jamellebouie.net
aug 24, 2025, 5:52 am • 3 2 • view
An excellent example of congruent dissonance as U.S. democracy deteriorates. The chief justice has repeatedly revealed himself as a Jekyll/Hyde. And I've extended him the benefit of doubt beyond all rationality. #scotus
aug 24, 2025, 5:07 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
It's not flabbergasting if you understand the billionaires have planned this for decades and they've got the last court they'll ever need. There's a great podcast "Master Plan" that traces this back to the Powell Memo. What is flabbergasting is how little the average voter cared. Still shocked.
aug 22, 2025, 5:33 am • 2 0 • view
I think that the average voter - who just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman - believed that Congress & the Courts would rein in Trump & MAGA. And it's just now dawning on people that the guardrails are gone.
aug 23, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
If your disconnected from “real news” & subject to the onslaught of never ending right-wing media lies, than your “average” voter believed the hogwash presented about Biden & Dems, not to mention the unabashed lying by DJT/GOP about everything. They forgot we had 4X the death rate from Covid & more.
aug 23, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, but he'll be invited to fewer cocktail parties as a result.
aug 22, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
History will not be kind to Mr. Injustice Roberts.
aug 22, 2025, 11:15 am • 0 0 • view
The Roberts Supreme Court is a wholly owned subsidiary of a very select group of influential billionaires and millionaires, led by Leonard Leo. They care nothing for American democracy, judicial precedence, judicial restraint, or basic human rights.
aug 21, 2025, 10:00 pm • 68 11 • view
that select group includes the Bush Family Network
aug 22, 2025, 12:01 am • 8 1 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 12:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Your work on this has been stellar.
aug 22, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you. Much appreciated. I wish I knew of a way to get it in front of reporters like Maddow or Colbert or South Park. Imagine if South Part devoted a show to Leonard Leo.
aug 22, 2025, 2:11 pm • 2 0 • view
And it pisses me off to no end. Harris and Cheney, Kinzinger. I mean what's the point of the Democratic party?
aug 22, 2025, 2:14 am • 1 0 • view
What is the point of this response?
aug 22, 2025, 11:12 am • 0 0 • view
That article's title is so perfect
aug 21, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
@alt-text.bsky.social
aug 22, 2025, 1:26 am • 2 0 • view
aug 22, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 1 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
@alt-text.bsky.social
aug 22, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Great article.
aug 22, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
It is long past time for Justices Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor to speak plainly before the American public about what is happening in SCOTUS.
aug 23, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
This is an absolute must read piece by Judge Luttig.
aug 21, 2025, 11:55 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 24, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
I would take Roger Taney’s corpse at this point.
aug 22, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view
This piece is excellent. It’s right up there with the New York Times Magazine piece on Murdoch. Well done! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
aug 22, 2025, 6:09 am • 0 0 • view
Wanted for the murder of America.
aug 22, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
The most dangerous man in America is this guy. #SCOTUS #SCOTUSISCORRUPT
aug 22, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 1 • view
the age of John Crow, 2013-present
aug 22, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
Given the circumstances, why are none of the liberal justices speaking out?
aug 21, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
I think they are in their dissents.
aug 21, 2025, 9:54 pm • 13 0 • view
Nobody among the public ever sees their dissents.
aug 22, 2025, 6:15 am • 1 0 • view
We’re the public, and we’re talking about it. It’s not up to the liberal justices to speak out—it’s up to us to track the cases.
aug 22, 2025, 10:29 am • 3 1 • view
How many Supreme Court Justices are in the Epstein Files?
aug 22, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe, but I would love nothing more for Roberts to go on some news show and justify his decisions. Not that we actually have a functioning media anymore either.
aug 22, 2025, 11:18 am • 3 1 • view
Harlan Crow and Pete Singer have their own Supreme Court Justices, who owns John Roberts?
aug 22, 2025, 12:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Idk if he’s owned. I think the real explanation is that none of them have to be bought to be on board with authoritarianism. These are not good people, even if you discount their monetary corruption.
aug 22, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Where is the protection from attacks by the President if the chief justice of the highest court in the US is not protecting the federal judiciary?
aug 23, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it acquiesce to Trump? It seems that 5 of the SCOTUS "conservatives" are 100% bought in to the goals of Project 2025's & Leonard Leo's white "christian" male-dominated overthrow of our country. A fascist nation that looks like 1840. They aren't just helping Trump. Trump is a means to their end.
aug 21, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
This is honestly the result of Democrats not pushing for deeper hearings into Clarence Thomas's alleged misogyny during his confirmation hearings. The GOP learned it could manipulate the nomination process and timeline, and Dems had no countermeasures. The GOP then rooted itself in the courts.
aug 23, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The Dem silence is evidence of a sick, treasonous party. The US public, for the first time is showing complete hostility towards Israel & AIPAC. This is an existential threat to Israel. Israel ends without US support. The draconian fascist tactics suit the goals of Israel in silencing Americans.
aug 22, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
One question about the partisan bias shown by the Republican members of Congress and the super majority on the Supreme Court, not to mention the legion of MAGA loyalists throughout the current administration, is this: Have you ever asked your children if they are proud of what you are doing?
aug 24, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
Judge Luttig represents the decent part of conservative America. And that part is no longer present in the Republican Party, which has been taken over by racist, greedy, fascist, pseudo-Christian hacks. They have always been there, but never were they in control like now.
aug 22, 2025, 11:20 am • 0 0 • view
Why is it taking journalists so long to figure out that the country is under a multi-pronged attack on democracy and freedom begun during the Nixon administration (the Southern strategy) and grown by adding Putin and empowered evangelism? Roberts was chosen for this.
aug 22, 2025, 10:10 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 21, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Chief Racist Roberts is an institutionalist the way Donald Trump is a saint.
aug 21, 2025, 9:12 pm • 13 0 • view
Democrats have been telling you this since 2016 and you didn't listen.
aug 22, 2025, 11:09 am • 1 0 • view
Luttig is the ONLY honorable conservative in America
aug 21, 2025, 9:15 pm • 5 0 • view
I definitely disagree that he’s the only one, but I definitely agree he’s been honorable, and then some.
aug 21, 2025, 9:18 pm • 13 0 • view
I find it telling that Reagan and Bush (41) federal judges who are still active are displaying standards of principle that may seem exceptional nowadays but only because Roberts lowered the bar at the highest levels. Their principles are what their positions required and which they honored.
aug 21, 2025, 10:34 pm • 13 0 • view
Absolutely agree
aug 22, 2025, 1:02 am • 1 0 • view
clarence thomas is the grand poobah of bush41 judges, though.
aug 23, 2025, 2:56 pm • 2 0 • view
True. I didn't feel like adding "not counting SCOTUS." I wrote "federal judges" even though SCOTUS appointments fall under Article III judges. 😉
aug 23, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
You mean St. Luttig, yes?
aug 21, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Conservatives are frightened and panicked. They’re afraid if they follow the rules, they’ll lose. So they have to cheat a little 🤷♂️.
aug 21, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Once Roberts cared about his legacy. But for unknown reasons, he threw in his lot with an anti-democratic authoritarian and removed all the guardrails. He will now be remembered as a synophant & toady to the worst President in history. The future will scoff at his futile efforts to explain himself.
aug 22, 2025, 12:00 am • 17 3 • view
Maybe he's in the Epstein Files!
aug 22, 2025, 12:01 am • 7 0 • view
Or maybe he knows that the history books will be written by people who see him as a hero.
aug 23, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
And to be clear, I hope he sees this all turn to ash and spends his final years as a pariah.
aug 23, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Who owns him?
aug 22, 2025, 9:39 am • 0 0 • view
he & his wife ain't getting any yunger, & they arw probably keen to maintain a nice life for their adopted children after they pass.
aug 23, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
He's always wanted the destruction of the Voting Rights Act to be his legacy.
aug 22, 2025, 12:49 am • 2 0 • view
Luttig has been a hero through this. Thank you to him.
aug 21, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
He will go down as the worst Justice in history. No contest.
aug 23, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
The ONLY good thing about this court is they have set the precedent that there is NO fuckin' precedent. So when enough of them die & (hopefully) are replaced by justices that give a shit about the law, they can decide to change things back without having to hear cases...bks that's how we roll now
aug 21, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
John Roberts has always been a shill (see “Citizens United”).
aug 23, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Biggest trader in history! He will go down in history as the man that gave Trump Immunity to bring the downfall of America!
aug 23, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
As someone who practiced in the 4th circuit in the mid-00's it's so weird to like Luttig and Wilkinson as much as I now do.
aug 21, 2025, 11:57 pm • 35 1 • view
SO weird.
aug 22, 2025, 12:55 am • 10 0 • view
I join you in that sentiment. I also practiced in the gentile 4th when Luttig was on that bench. Luttig and Wilkins (not Wilkinson) drove us nuts on criminal issues (especially sentencing guidelines)
aug 22, 2025, 12:22 am • 6 1 • view
There are, I don’t know, maybe a few dozen of us still around who practiced in the 4th Circuit back then who really understand this. 02 to 07 for me.
aug 22, 2025, 12:59 am • 3 1 • view
I was there for all of it. 1991-2006.
aug 22, 2025, 1:36 am • 2 0 • view
Roberts is behaving like a treasonous criminal.
aug 21, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Feel exactly the same way about Roberts and this Supreme Court. Kudos to him for saying what was obvious to most of us and necessary to be said from someone so esteemed.
aug 22, 2025, 12:14 am • 1 0 • view
Can he be impeached? Disbarred? What are the consequences for this??? We citizens have no say in his lawlessness.
aug 22, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
USA POTUS is in Thrall to an USA Orange Fat Man Pedophile..
aug 23, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
💯 The Chief Justice is presiding over the demolition of the rule of law.
aug 22, 2025, 6:43 am • 0 0 • view
Another example where never-Trump Republicans have a much better idea of what we are dealing with here than Democratic politicians and celebrity consultants.
aug 21, 2025, 9:59 pm • 54 3 • view
At the risk of sounding old-fashioned, I think it has less to do with comprehension and more to do with principle.
aug 21, 2025, 10:10 pm • 54 1 • view
It could be—I have no evidence it isn’t. In addition they could be taking the long view where one has to ask—how does this work out as a system over time? What do you do if you have no system? Whatever your political principles, the arbitrary nature of SCOTUS decisions now are absurd on their face.
aug 21, 2025, 11:56 pm • 11 0 • view
The answer is that once the rule of law has been eroded all the smart money will leave this country and so will the tax revenue. My oldest mentors reminded me that without the rule of law we cannot have Effective Government and that is a difference between successful and marginalized democracies.
aug 22, 2025, 9:19 am • 9 2 • view
People will start to drift away eventually but at the moment the tech sector is planning to vampirically suck the government dry. They’ve found their mark so they aren’t going to leave until every drop is drained (though they will try to wreck the EU so they can do it there next).
aug 22, 2025, 9:27 am • 6 0 • view
I feel similarly, esp with regard to the EU being a target. Frankly the most recent Alaska summit appeared to me more like the launch meeting for a coordinated attack than a mediation
aug 22, 2025, 9:33 am • 4 0 • view
Accordingly to actuarial tables Trump likely has 8 more years to live. I do wish the EU understood they can’t meekly outwait or outlast him—they have to unify to oppose him directly, and do it quickly before he takes them down with us.
aug 22, 2025, 9:36 am • 3 0 • view
8 years? I doubt it he’s in early to mid stage dementia.
aug 23, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, I know. People can live decades with dementia though.
aug 25, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
But likely can’t lead a country
aug 28, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
Like what evolutionary biologists call adaptive radiation, which is mostly triggered by environmental shifts, we're witnessing rapid diversification across multiple domains simultaneously - artificial intelligence, biotechnology, space exploration, renewable energy, etc /3
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
We don’t have AGI, we aren’t going to live in space for a very long time—possibly ever. We will get some minerals though and so on.
aug 22, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
Totally agree. The mirage is a product
aug 22, 2025, 11:43 am • 1 0 • view
OK. But some of this is hokum.
aug 22, 2025, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view
Of course it is
aug 22, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
Human cultural norms and our most well established societal structures are all being challenged as everything around us undergoes explosive change within the same compressed timeframe. What historically took centuries now unfolds in decades or years. /4
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
It sure feels like we're living through one of those rare periods where the normal rules of gradual change do not apply any more. Traditional timelines and norms are giving way to transformational acceleration that will fundamentally reshape human civilization. /5
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
In this current era we have already experienced a cultural and technological punctuation events of unprecedented scale. /2
 [Biology Insights](https://biologyinsights.com/punctuated-equilibrium-theory-of-rapid-speciation/) , while adaptive radiation describes the mechanism - how organisms rapidly diversify into multiple new forms when environmental pressures create new opportunities or niches. These](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j4qhfrunwhqul2z4ndofkgut/bafkreigaffgic4q5m4d7af4putxyryiatv75jgwzpkm2rrmjqviemh2bny@jpeg)
aug 22, 2025, 10:05 am • 1 0 • view
Makes you wonder what of anything Barack and Angela think of their legacy. For a tube there, we had an opportunity to elevate humanity and accelerate progress. It feels like we'll be digging out of this trench for decades at this moment. So much delusional outdated geriatric thinking remains... /1
aug 22, 2025, 9:53 am • 5 0 • view
It’s strange that none of these people—who I am entirely sure are smarter than I am?—did not see the dangers —Obama would say things that made you sure he must. But he did not. Perhaps once a person is insulated too much by privilege they may cease to pick up the signals one needs.
aug 22, 2025, 9:56 am • 4 0 • view
You're going to like the rest of what I wrote this morning. And I look forward to hearing your thoughts in response. Thank you for the dialogue
aug 22, 2025, 11:34 am • 1 0 • view
First, Ever read this book? I did back in 1996 on the UK hardcover when I was a CSIS intern under ZB. It's become a favorite of Thiel, Andreesen and the latest 2020 plus editions have a retrofitted foreword by Thiel. It's a philosophical thome for the PayPal crypto boys. See Alt Text for more
aug 22, 2025, 9:19 am • 1 0 • view
2nd, lots of research has been done about the influence of the deeply dimented troglodyte philosophies of Curtis Yarvin. Here's one by the New Yorker that I haven't read, yet. TNY: Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America share.google/C488NUQu0A0V... Study the work of @sethabramson.bsky.social
aug 22, 2025, 9:19 am • 1 0 • view
Please share any other relevant credible reading research etc that informs the modus operandi of this disturbing movement, however tertiary. Thx 🙏 /JDS
aug 22, 2025, 9:19 am • 1 0 • view
Gotta give them credit.
aug 22, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view
If they had principles they wouldn't be conservatives- we all know the Wilhoit quote. There's then two options: either they understand because they saw it happen and didn't do anything to stop it, or understand because they're made they didn't get to do it for themselves.
aug 22, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
aug 21, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
He's a former, retired judge . Dems are active lawmakers. I think it's tricky for legislative branch to criticise the judicial branch. We know what Tom Cotton tried to do with Justice Brown Jackson, but failed. German MAGA was unfortunately successful in doing that in Germany 😔
aug 22, 2025, 5:42 am • 3 0 • view
Exactly.
aug 23, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 22, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Roberts ALWAYS looks guilty as fuck at any public appearance over the last few years. He knows what he's brought on.
aug 22, 2025, 1:27 am • 5 1 • view
This has been clear for some time but why isn't he giving interviews like this to American mainstream media?? Truly astonishing candor! So now we run it on reels in social media, on bill boards, on TV commercials, on flyers at football games, at the world series, etc...
aug 22, 2025, 9:24 am • 0 0 • view
John Roberts is a disgrace to his country and to his people. Let it be written. #SCOTUS
aug 22, 2025, 8:52 am • 0 0 • view
SCROTUS
aug 22, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
He has always been a Republican.
aug 21, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s not just Luttig’s clarity that’s striking here; his personal relationship w/ Roberts carries extra perspective — and a sharpened dagger. Btw I think author Pilkington did and excellent job in this with all his sources.
aug 22, 2025, 5:43 am • 0 0 • view
I admire Luttig, and I am not conservative at all. Luttig has ETHICS and INTEGRITY, six SCOTUS justices, not so much.
aug 22, 2025, 1:08 am • 1 0 • view
Why do commentators insist on continuing to use the term “conservative” in reference to the Fed Soc supermajority? These people are the literal opposite of what judicial conservativism has traditionally meant. These are radical, activist judges who have no respect for precedent.
aug 22, 2025, 12:35 am • 12 0 • view
Fascist is what they really are
aug 22, 2025, 6:02 am • 3 0 • view
Or is it that our right-wing media & press have systematically ignored Dems that have warned about this Court, for years. This Roberts’ court have been GOP partisan hacks on Dobbs, VRA, gerrymandering, Citizens United, & DJT Immunity. Dem reaction to stolen SCOTUS seats was totally lacking, though.
aug 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
They are all either bought and paid for, or have been shown the kompromat.
aug 21, 2025, 11:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats have lost their way.
aug 22, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
Democrats didn't appoint John Roberts or Alito or Coney Barrett or Gorsuch. What are you doing?
aug 22, 2025, 11:14 am • 1 0 • view
SCOTUS is Bought and Paid For.
aug 23, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Gonna go out on a limb and say Roberts is fine with his decisions. Please, stop doubting the obvious and accept that he and his clan are part of this, actively. No more equivocating. Resist. Find a protest. You are not alone.
aug 22, 2025, 1:29 am • 2 0 • view
“Never before has [the supreme court] entertained such challenges from the president, and never before has it decided them so flippantly J Michael Luttig”
aug 22, 2025, 5:05 am • 2 1 • view
📌
aug 21, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Impeach.
aug 22, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view
Democracy dies under: Citizens United, Partisan gerrymandering, gutting VR, & presidential immunity!
aug 21, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
The truthful criticism means more coming from SCOTUS peers. Democrats’ actions will speak louder but we need the power first.
aug 23, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
This.
aug 22, 2025, 7:55 am • 0 0 • view
Perhaps, before the end of civilisation in the west, America will realise that electing judges on the basis of their political alignment is unbelievably stupid
aug 23, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
A special shout out to Mitch McConnell who earned his place on the Mt. Rushmore of Republican fuckheads.
aug 22, 2025, 5:12 am • 1 0 • view
But how could anyone believe that the wealthy judges that hinted Trump out of a sentence for stealing documents from us, and then gave him magic protection from more crime, could have other motives than law? It's more amazing that Roberts bothers pretending he isn't supporting a coup anymore.
aug 23, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
John Roberts is a fucking traitor.
aug 21, 2025, 9:59 pm • 34 1 • view
John Roberts owes somebody powerful. Somebody owns John Roberts-who?
aug 22, 2025, 12:02 am • 7 0 • view
No need to think of it like this really. He is a right wing conservative that doesn’t believe in democracy. He believes in a hierarchy caste system. They rule according to what will further their agenda. He has never been a moderate who will see the light. This is who he is.
aug 22, 2025, 1:12 am • 12 0 • view
Roberts has always been against the voting rights act and has actively worked against it even before he was on the court. I have been listening to the 5-4 podcast on the supreme court. It is pretty eye opening listening to the three lawyers perspectives on the courts history and each of the justices
aug 22, 2025, 1:17 am • 8 0 • view
This is what speaking truth to power looks like. Thank you @judgeluttig.bsky.social May we all aspire to be as clear and strong in the face of the admin's manifestly unjust actions. And if anyone is asking, this is an example of what we want our Dem leaders to do.
aug 23, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
aug 22, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view
The arsonist screaming fire can miss me with his hot takes. No.
aug 22, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
One can assume Roberts is against expanding the court, through his rank feckless in the face of trump he has only proved the case for those who support expanding court.
aug 23, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
He knows first hand how pathetically weak and lacking moral character Roberts is. Not to mention every con on SCOTUS wants to usher in the Fascist state, their only argument is how best to do it. Luttig has belonged to the orgs pushing this agenda for decades & now it's happening he's speaking out
aug 22, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
He has been well rewarded for his treachery.
aug 22, 2025, 3:15 am • 0 0 • view
aug 22, 2025, 4:47 am • 1 0 • view
The Supreme Court has a history of racist and prejudice justices. However, John Roberts will go down in history as the worst of them all as the one who disregarded the rule of law and the American principles that this country was built on by our founders.
aug 23, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
aug 22, 2025, 11:35 am • 0 0 • view
Sounds like they should all go to prison and we should rewrite the system so Russian asset pedophiles can't fuck up the country thanks to millions of brainwashed meat puppets.
aug 22, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Roberts previous incarnation was Lord Buckingham saying, “no it’s your divine right”.
aug 22, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view
The only job SCOTUS has is to protect the constitution and the American people. They have failed us in so many ways. Robert’s and the other 5 need to go. They have ruled supported the worst president we have ever have. Just imagine if they really did their job how it could have been.
aug 21, 2025, 11:45 pm • 3 0 • view
We should've let the British burn the entire joint to the ground.
aug 22, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view
He is a disgrace. History wont judge him kindly. Hopefully, he feels the sting of his contribution to a sicker, poorer, less educated, LESS FREE America. Nothing but strikes.
aug 22, 2025, 12:04 am • 1 0 • view
Dude has to have blackmail on him right? Who works their whole life for power to judge schit and then just give it away to the biggest schit stain in the world?
aug 22, 2025, 5:37 am • 1 0 • view
Makes me think it’s worse than we know
aug 22, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 1 • view
Radioactive hornets and shrimp
aug 23, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
shithole country.
aug 23, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
If I were to paint John Roberts I would use a palette of: Robe of Betrayal Black Oathbreaker Gray Impeachment Orange The resulting blend is Pantone 666
aug 23, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
The Supreme Six are acting as consiglieres to this mob boss administration.
aug 22, 2025, 8:52 am • 0 0 • view
obligatory. youtu.be/sbCOtg3JY3s?...
aug 23, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe he’s in the Epstein files…
aug 22, 2025, 4:07 am • 2 0 • view