Looks like President Trump won’t be the July 4th invitee du jour at the Maine summer home of the country’s chief justice – 250th celebration of U.S. Independence or not.
John Roberts, who besides being the nation’s top judge, owns not just one but two houses on Hupper Island in midcoast Maine, just east of Rockland.
Roberts is also, apparently, Trump’s self-appointed conscience and babysitter, judging from the latest lecture he gave Trump for criticizing federal judges.
Though not naming Trump by name, the St. George, Maine summer-island judge in a speech last week warned that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop.”
The lobster-loving jurist’s lecture came two days after Trump called a federal judge who ruled against the administration “wacky, nasty, crooked and totally out of control.”
As he has done before, Roberts was careful not to single out Trump or anyone else, insisting that the attacks on judges are not from “just any one political perspective,” according to an Associated Press account of his speech.
Criticizing judges is fine, Robert said, but “personally directed hostility is dangerous and it’s got to stop.”
Trump’s most recent comments about judges came Sunday in a post on his Truth Social following a ruling by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg quashing subpoenas the Justice Department had issued to the Federal Reserve.
Boasberg, Trump wrote, is “a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge” who “suffers from the highest level of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), and has been ‘after’ my people, and me, for years.”
Last year, Roberts publicly rejected Trump’s call for Boasberg’s impeachment when the judge blocked additional deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
The president also has been highly critical of Roberts and the five other justices who struck down global tariffs he imposed under an emergency powers law.
Trump said he was “absolutely ashamed” of the members of the court who ruled against him, questioning their patriotism and singling out two of his own appointees, Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch.
If there’s a lobster bake at Roberts’ Maine cottages July 4th to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday, guess who is likely not to be there…
Mr. Too-Independent-For-John-Roberts Donald Trump.
The latest lecture from Roberts to the president of ballsy independent thinking is the third one since he first scolded Trump in 2018.
Roberts first reprimanded Trump for saying U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of California – who had ruled against the 45th president’s prohibition on asylum for people who illegally entered the US – was “an Obama judge.”
The chief judge also tore into Trump late last year after the president questioned the federal judge blocking the Venezuelan deportations.
“No Maine Lobster For You Mr. President – You’re Too ‘Independent:’” St. George’s Famous Judge
By Ted Cohen
I wonder if he’s on the Epstein list? There have been an awful lot of strange decisions by that man
Roberts is a hack
Not all judges are created equal, sometimes one just has to call out the bad ones.
Screw this Flatlander! If the G.D. “judges” would stay in their own lane, follow the constitution, president set the SCOTUS, we wouldn’t be criticizing them. Brutus (Robert Yate) was right when he penned about judges “In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.”.
Bobby we don’t live in a Kritarchy, so clean up your own house then you can whine about hostility, until then hostility is all you deserve.
Mr Judge Roberts,
Thank you, as crustations are given to slaves. My Commander In Chief/ President of the United States is NOT a slave.
Thank you for looking out for the highest office of the United States.
Sincerely,
Lowell L Morse
Machiasport Maine
OMG ROBINSON YOU FIXED THE FREEKIN COMMENTS SECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD LOVE YOU!
So Roberts want no one to criticize judges of any level for doing things we may feel in wrong or biased? As punishment he will send Trump and all who voice an unfavorable opinion of them no servings of lobster? Stop playing “victim,, grow up and learn to take criticism.