Donald Trump on Chief Justice Roberts: “His Decision Makes No Sense and He Knows It Doesn’t Make Sense” (Video)

Donald Trump slammed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts again on Tuesday night. Trump told Greta Van Susteren,

“Justice Roberts is a smart man and a smart man could not have made this decision. Because you look at his decision. It’s just fraught with ambiguities and inconsistencies and it doesn’t make sense. He knows it doesn’t make sense. He grasped at the tax concept so he could justify it… In this case everybody knew what was the right thing and he did the wrong thing.”

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#1 July 4, 2012 at 4:55 pm
BurmaShave commented:

Trump speaks plainly and calls a spade a spade.

No wonder he is treated with something between suspicion and contempt by the Beltway crowd.
#2 July 4, 2012 at 4:58 pm
pink tie Republican commented:

Roberts will go down in history as a black stain on the Court, his family and his country. He knew exactly what he was doing. Sold his soul for 30 pieces of silver, yet will never be respected by either side now. John, they may be stroking your ego today in the salons of Georgetown and the mainstream media, but the second you make a correct decision in a future case, you will revert back to being the enemy, guaranteed.
#3 July 4, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Happy Birthday To US!! commented:

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DT: you never know what’s going to happen..

i did, just didn’t know how they were going to
it (aka: try and pull the wool over our eyes)..

i don’t believe they did either (hence, the postponements,
the tossing of the union bone, and final timing to coincide
with the Fast & Furious farcical)..

far as i’m concerned, the ruling, albeit
camouflaged, is full of gaping holes..

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#4 July 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm
July 4th Defeat Obama Campaign commented:

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WATCH THE TELETHON

LISTEN TO THE TELETHON

CONTRIBUTE TO THE TELETHON

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#6 July 4, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Practical Jane commented:

Like it or not Roberts left the fate of Obamacre to the People.

“Obamacare can be reversed by the People in November”…..”and its weak tax power can be reversed by any future court without pause.”

http://news.yahoo.com/questions-chief-justices-health-care-ruling-could-lasting-004303825.html
#7 July 4, 2012 at 5:19 pm
JoyO commented:

If I may quote Roberts, “Members of this Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments. Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”

In response to that quote, I would like to see this billboard all across the USA:

“Now it’s PERSONAL
America is coming for you, CONGRESS
VOTE LIBERALS OUT IN 2010
We THE People”

You can see the billboard on Legalinsurrection.com where it was posted first thing this morning.
#8 July 4, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Ruready? commented:

Sure looks like Roberts had illusions of grandeur. He weighed his own self in the balances of justice and has been found sorely lacking. A small little man of weak character – not an ounce of greatness in him. Pitiful, actually. At least we all know it now.
#9 July 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Larry E commented:

Judge Roberts is now an expert in Prostitutional Law.

Judge Roberts sez, “You wrote ‘mandate,’ and I know you meant ‘ tax.’ Lend me your eraser, will you? There! All fixed!”

It’s a tax? It’s a mandate? It’s a Stalinist collectivization of medical care, that’s what it is. And it will do as much good for our medical industry as Stalin’s collectivization did for Soviet food production.

Supreme Court says, “This law is legal because a magic unicorn flew out of my butt and told me so. You wanna make something of it?”
#10 July 4, 2012 at 5:28 pm
July 4th Defeat Obama Campaign commented:

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Trump: Obama will start Iran war to win election

hey, look over there (not at my hair)!!

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#11 July 4, 2012 at 5:29 pm
bigkahuna commented:

That sob Roberts is a white staon on the court…total jerkoff. He just bent the country over and raped us. He made up a new law.
It is his job to interpret and FOLLOW the not change laws to fit it. I hope he falls off a cliff after mitt is elected
#12 July 4, 2012 at 5:36 pm
bg commented:

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#66 anyone??

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#13 July 4, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Patty commented:

FIRST ROMNEY SAYS OBAMA CARE IS A TAX. I suggest he inform his adviser quick.
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Obamacare’s Hideous History, Recounted

Amid John Roberts’ craven surrender to “the political branches” on Obamacare — a bizarre capitulation, at that, since Roberts honored a statute that he hallucinated, but neither Congress nor the president authored nor authorized — Americans should remember just how many rules, standards, and traditions had to be twisted or bulldozed in order for the [un]Affordable Care Act to become law.

For Obamacare to be enacted in the first place required each of more than a dozen, highly unlikely or even suspect, occurrences or actions. It then took some serious constitutional hocus pocus for it to survive in court. Consider the awful litany:

First, rogue prosecutors, drunk with bloodlust, had to break all sorts of rules in order to secure the conviction of Alaska’s U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens. (Stevens, in his hubris, also had to insist on a speedy trial he thought would clear his name before the election of 2008, when in fact it resulted in the conviction that sealed his electoral fate.) Also, Judge Emmet Sullivan, a no-nonsense jurist, had to decide not to declare a mistrial before the verdict despite growing evidence of prosecutorial misconduct. (Sullivan didn’t necessarily err; he just didn’t have enough proof of misconduct yet. When it came, post-trial, he cracked down fairly hard on the scofflaws.) Had Stevens been re-elected, he presumably would never have voted for Obamacare, which therefore would have failed by one vote… even if none of the other, subsequent abominations (as we will discuss) were forestalled.

Second, the Democrats had to succeed in flat-out stealing the election for a Minnesota-based U.S. Senate seat from Republican Norm Coleman. In addition to securing the counting of highly questionable “votes” throughout the recount process, the Democrats also likely benefited from the illegal votes of hundreds of felons.

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/07/03/obamacares-hideous-history-rec
#16 July 4, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Patty commented:

This law requires American to by Healthcare. No matter what anyone says, Government is mandating we purchase a product.

And we will pay a fee or Tax on our tax returns if we aren’t covered by Insurance. We thought the tax codes were awful before, just wait. IRS will be one of the biggest Government Department in U.S. history. The paperwork alone will be astronomical.

The HHS director has been given the green light to set up health care centers all over the nation. Money that has already been dropped into the Obamarobotax health care will blow your mind.

We never got a far shake, it was not presented to America as a tax and all were upset because it was requiring us to purchase a product. Well, that was apparently voted in by The Supreme Court. Exactly, nothing was really mentioned as far as I am concerned the Justices could have just been twittling their thumbs. Blowing air in the wind.

We are being tax and if we don’t buy insurance we will be taxed on a product that government is requiring us to buy. PERIOD AND PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
#17 July 4, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Patty commented:

This opinion of the court is so irresponsible and does nothing to correct the lawsuits.
#18 July 4, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Patty commented:

Romney Declares Independence From Advisors: Calls Mandate ‘Tax’

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/07/04/Romney-Mandate-Tax
#19 July 4, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Patty commented:

General Welfare Fraud: Roberts creates a tax loophole

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Roberts’ argument is that the mandate, being enforced by a tax, is validated by the clause in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution that empowers Congress to levy and collect taxes for the purpose of promoting the “general welfare.” Like many before him, he is taking that term to be roughly equivalent to the “common good,” and concluding that liberal government doogoodism is broadly endorsed by the Constitution.

What that clause actually says is that Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes “to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States” [emphasis added]. It is the welfare of the nation that is addressed here, not that of individual citizens or demographic groups. The fact that a majority of states had sued the federal government over this law ought to have taken the general welfare argument off the table from the outset.

Moreover, there is another mention of the phrase “general welfare” in the Constitution, in the Preamble, which lists its promotion among the reasons for which the document was written. If the Constitution is the instrument for promoting the general welfare, then Article I Section 8 cannot be understood to endorse an extraconstitutional act like requiring individuals to purchase health insurance.

http://theshinbone.com/robhole.htm
#20 July 4, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Patty commented:

Roberts instead characterizes the congressional power of taxation as if it were the magical key that unlocks the escape hatch from the Constitution. He tells us so when he explains that an otherwise unconstitutional law is made to be constitutional by the implementation of a tax. Imagine trying to explain that one to James Madison.

This magical key theory is not in the Constitution, but it is now Supreme Court precedent, which makes it even more indelible. The misguided judicial principle of stare decisis (“to stand by that which is decided”) is adhered to far more strictly than the actual, written law of our land. Even if Obamacare is repealed legislatively, the Roberts rule will remain.

Next time the Democrats win back majorities like they had in 2009, they could require that we all paint the roofs of our houses white in order to combat the effects of “climate change.” As long as the initiative included a tax to pay for the painting, how could Roberts resist joining the four liberal justices to approve it? The tyrannical possibilities are nearly limitless.

Remember that it was Roberts who bungled the Presidential Oath of Office while administering it to President-elect Obama at his inauguration. We must now consider the possibility that he got it wrong on purpose, in order to give Obama a technicality under which he would not be bound to protect and defend the Constitution after all. Just think of it as another clever escape plan from that keeper of the magical keys, the wizardly Chief Justice John Roberts.

http://theshinbone.com/robhole.htm