Leroy N. Soetoro
2020-03-12 23:30:09 UTC
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-judge-who-attacked-chief-
justice-roberts-is-a-biased-liberal-flamethrower
A federal judge in Wisconsin is making headlines by trashing Chief Justice
of the United States John Roberts and the conservative majority on the
Supreme Court. This is likely what he wanted.
The first thing you should know about U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman is
that he is a zealous and habitual flamethrower. His latest diatribe,
published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, was designed to shock with
the incendiary title, The Roberts Courts Assault on Democracy.
Using the word assault was an invective guaranteed to conjure up images
of criminal behavior, although that is nowhere in Adelmans article. But
his contention that democracy is on the precipice because conservatives
hold a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court is his underlying thesis.
This is so, according to the 80-year-old jurist, because sometimes the
Supreme Court rules in a way that is contrary to popular sentiment. Never
mind that there might be a legitimate or well-reasoned legal basis for
such decisions. The will of the majority is ignored, bemoans the judge.
Adelman seems to be under the mistaken impression that justices are
supposed to conform their decisions not to the law, but to public opinion
at any given moment. This is a profoundly distorted vision of how justice
and the rule of law are designed to operate within our constitutional
framework.
The other two branches of government executive and legislative are
political in nature and do, indeed, reflect the publics will. Thats why
elections exist.
The judicial branch, however, is notably different. Its job is to
interpret the law as written and/or intended. That is how the framers
constructed our tripartite government.
The duty of the Supreme Court is not to take the transitory temperature of
its citizens or consult polling data and then rule on cases accordingly.
If it were otherwise, why not let citizens vote on court cases in a series
of perpetual referendums?
Adelman, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997, levels harsh
criticism at a variety of Supreme Court decisions, including campaign
finance, collective bargaining, health insurance, gerrymandering and
voting rights (his hobbyhorse).
The judge accuses the high court of deliberately favoring large
corporations and wealthy individuals as if that was the only reason for
its decisions. He rails against economic inequality and social disparities
that afflict poor people and minorities.
As constitutional law professor Josh Blackman remarked, This screed could
have come from a Bernie stump speech. He added, It has no place in a
publication by a federal judge.
Setting aside the dubious ethical propriety of a sitting federal judge
lambasting the chief justice of the United States and his Supreme Court
colleagues, it is the blatant partisan nature of Adelmans attack that
undermines his own arguments.
To hear Adelman tell it, President Trump is an autocrat and the source
of all imagined evil. So, too, is the Republican Party, acting as a
witting co-conspirator in the plot against democracy.
Adelmans antipathy was particularly venomous toward Chief Justice
Roberts. Recalling Roberts statement during his Senate confirmation
hearing that justices are like umpires who call the balls and strikes,
Adelman referred to the comment as a masterpiece of disingenuousness.
That is a polite way of calling someone a liar.
Adelman has a demonstrated fondness for publishing politicized
denunciations. In 2017, he penned a law review article excoriating How
Big Money Ruined Public Life in Wisconsin.
The next year, the judge authored another one titled The Erosion of Civil
Rights And What To Do About It. Last year he composed The Supreme Court
and the Corruption of Democracy. You get the picture.
Adelman is nothing if not consistent. Conservatives on the Supreme Court
are always portrayed by him as the hobgoblins of little minds (to borrow a
phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Sadly, this liberal federal judge gives no credit to the intellectual
honesty of the justices who sit well above him on our nations highest
court. Nor does he respect the judicial philosophies that inform their
decisions.
We may not always agree with the Supreme Court. But publicly castigating
the justices for their rulings and personally attacking the chief justice
as disingenuous serves only to demean and diminish the federal bench.
Adelman certainly has a right to express his opinions. But the caustic
nature of those opinions makes one wonder if his own decisions are free of
the kind of bias of which he so freely accuses others.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.
Senile loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi got "Trumped" on February
5, 2020. "President Trump, Not Guilty."
justice-roberts-is-a-biased-liberal-flamethrower
A federal judge in Wisconsin is making headlines by trashing Chief Justice
of the United States John Roberts and the conservative majority on the
Supreme Court. This is likely what he wanted.
The first thing you should know about U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman is
that he is a zealous and habitual flamethrower. His latest diatribe,
published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, was designed to shock with
the incendiary title, The Roberts Courts Assault on Democracy.
Using the word assault was an invective guaranteed to conjure up images
of criminal behavior, although that is nowhere in Adelmans article. But
his contention that democracy is on the precipice because conservatives
hold a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court is his underlying thesis.
This is so, according to the 80-year-old jurist, because sometimes the
Supreme Court rules in a way that is contrary to popular sentiment. Never
mind that there might be a legitimate or well-reasoned legal basis for
such decisions. The will of the majority is ignored, bemoans the judge.
Adelman seems to be under the mistaken impression that justices are
supposed to conform their decisions not to the law, but to public opinion
at any given moment. This is a profoundly distorted vision of how justice
and the rule of law are designed to operate within our constitutional
framework.
The other two branches of government executive and legislative are
political in nature and do, indeed, reflect the publics will. Thats why
elections exist.
The judicial branch, however, is notably different. Its job is to
interpret the law as written and/or intended. That is how the framers
constructed our tripartite government.
The duty of the Supreme Court is not to take the transitory temperature of
its citizens or consult polling data and then rule on cases accordingly.
If it were otherwise, why not let citizens vote on court cases in a series
of perpetual referendums?
Adelman, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997, levels harsh
criticism at a variety of Supreme Court decisions, including campaign
finance, collective bargaining, health insurance, gerrymandering and
voting rights (his hobbyhorse).
The judge accuses the high court of deliberately favoring large
corporations and wealthy individuals as if that was the only reason for
its decisions. He rails against economic inequality and social disparities
that afflict poor people and minorities.
As constitutional law professor Josh Blackman remarked, This screed could
have come from a Bernie stump speech. He added, It has no place in a
publication by a federal judge.
Setting aside the dubious ethical propriety of a sitting federal judge
lambasting the chief justice of the United States and his Supreme Court
colleagues, it is the blatant partisan nature of Adelmans attack that
undermines his own arguments.
To hear Adelman tell it, President Trump is an autocrat and the source
of all imagined evil. So, too, is the Republican Party, acting as a
witting co-conspirator in the plot against democracy.
Adelmans antipathy was particularly venomous toward Chief Justice
Roberts. Recalling Roberts statement during his Senate confirmation
hearing that justices are like umpires who call the balls and strikes,
Adelman referred to the comment as a masterpiece of disingenuousness.
That is a polite way of calling someone a liar.
Adelman has a demonstrated fondness for publishing politicized
denunciations. In 2017, he penned a law review article excoriating How
Big Money Ruined Public Life in Wisconsin.
The next year, the judge authored another one titled The Erosion of Civil
Rights And What To Do About It. Last year he composed The Supreme Court
and the Corruption of Democracy. You get the picture.
Adelman is nothing if not consistent. Conservatives on the Supreme Court
are always portrayed by him as the hobgoblins of little minds (to borrow a
phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Sadly, this liberal federal judge gives no credit to the intellectual
honesty of the justices who sit well above him on our nations highest
court. Nor does he respect the judicial philosophies that inform their
decisions.
We may not always agree with the Supreme Court. But publicly castigating
the justices for their rulings and personally attacking the chief justice
as disingenuous serves only to demean and diminish the federal bench.
Adelman certainly has a right to express his opinions. But the caustic
nature of those opinions makes one wonder if his own decisions are free of
the kind of bias of which he so freely accuses others.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.
Senile loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi got "Trumped" on February
5, 2020. "President Trump, Not Guilty."