« Reply #54 on: April 07, 2025, 07:47:29 pm »
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has now been told to get bent by Chief Justice Roberts. Which is the necessary correction in this case.
Oh, and it turns out that she isn't the ultimate authority in this case or in any other.
Yep, it seems that Roberts has gotten the message that he needs to rein in these rogue district judges, or else 1) Trump's going to refuse to abide by their orders and start ignoring them altogether, and/or 2) Congress is going to strip away those judges' jurisdiction and authority, or else dissolve or reorganize their districts.
Channeling Charles Evans Hughes can work both ways...
Event Recap: Chief Justice John Roberts on Charles Evans Hugheshttps://history.nycourts.gov/event-recap-chief-justice-john-roberts-on-charles-evans-hughes/Roberts talks leadership in discussion on Supreme Courthttps://www.cnn.com/2015/11/21/politics/john-roberts-charles-evans-hughes/index.htmlChief Justice John Roberts took a breather from a blockbuster docket of cases in Washington Friday night to travel to New York to discuss another chief justice from another time.
In an unusual and lively talk, Roberts revealed his deep understanding of the court’s history but also his thoughts on the role of the chief justice, its limits and opportunities for leadership, and why no one on the current court will ever run for president.
The talk was sponsored by the Historical Society of the New York Courts and the subject was Charles Evans Hughes, a man who began his career in politics, served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, left for a failed bid for the presidency and then eventually returned as chief justice in 1930. Hughes guided the court through the tumultuous days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s controversial court-packing plan.
“It fell to Hughes,” Roberts said, “to guide a very unpopular Supreme Court through that high noon showdown against America’s most popular president since George Washington.”
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He added that there are opportunities as a chief justice to lead. “Somebody does have to moderate the discussion,” he said. “Somebody does have to do what they can to maintain order and decorum during arguments … somebody does have to represent the institution to the outside world and to the other political branches.”
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