Chief Justice John Roberts (D, New York)
By Robert T. Smith
web posted April 28, 2025
In November 2018, in response to another of the usual leftist rulings from the Ninth Circuit Court out of San Francisco, President Trump referred to the judge making the determination as an "Obama Judge." Responding to a query regarding this event made by the Associated Press, the Supreme Court chief justice, John Roberts, is quoted as saying, "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."
The current lawfare judge shopping to roadblock President Trump's attempt to remove criminal illegal aliens, among a multitude of other examples, is the poster child for Judge Roberts fantasy world. As the parody website Babylon Bee so succinctly opined, "People Who Bypassed Legal Process in Migrating to USA Demand Legal Process Before Being Kicked Out."
Most recently, Justice Roberts and six colleagues stepped in to temporarily uphold a lower-court opinion interfering with Trump's deportations, which makes the Chief Justice's assertion of no Obama, Trump, Bush, Clinton judges incomprehensible. Here's what Justice Samuel Alito wrote in response:
"Literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation."
If the Supreme Court justices are to function as umpires, assessing facts from a common set of rules, then why are so many decisions so clearly split along perceived party lines? The world Chief Justice Roberts lives in is imaginary.
Has the Chief Justice missed the vows of lawfare, and political obstruction expressed and implemented by the Democrats, including their recent, ongoing enrobed judicial activist shopping spree? In his fantasy world, does he not comprehend the importance the Democrats have placed on activist "judges" to put in place or retain their agenda that cannot be passed by the legislative process?
In 2012, it was this same Chief Justice Roberts who changed President Obama's penalty from regulation into a tax from the bench to save the dramatic Obamacare change of relationship between citizens and their government. Even President Obama's representatives in front of the court argued against the penalty being considered a tax. Our chief justice assigned us to live in an Obamacare fantasy world of his own design.
The Democrats are always righteously indignant when their government is run by an outsider, i.e., Republican. According to their political supporters, the mainstream media, when a Democrat wins a political seat, this is confirmation of the righteousness of their cause, and they should aggressively implement their agenda. Democrat Supreme Court justice selections are typically passed without difficulty, touted in the media as fair and impeccably qualified jurists.
Alternatively, when a Republican wins a political seat, the mainstream media intone that this is time to bring us all together and reach across the aisle for bipartisan agreement. Republican Supreme Court selections are typically demonized and editorially assaulted. Chief Justice Roberts appears to have missed this long-term condition when he alleges that the Judiciary is above partisan considerations.
Based on the statements and record of Chief Justice Roberts, and his bizarre fantasy world indwelling, the courts will remain an act of political will and not justice. That will be the Robert's court legacy. 
Robert T. Smith is an environmental scientist who spends his days enjoying life and the pursuit of happiness with his family. He confesses to cling to his liberty, guns and religion, with antipathy toward the arrogant ruling elites throughout the country.
