John Roberts is a Murderer, Along With Kavanaugh, Who Wrote the Wisconsin Primary COVID-19 Infection and Death Opinion, and the Three Other Right-Wing SCOTUS Justices
April 8th 2020
John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States of America (Steve Petteway)
By Bluecalm (of the Daily Kos community)
I don’t want to use polite language anymore. I don’t want to speak in measured tones anymore. I want to scream. I want to yell. I want to say, “Assholes! We are in the middle of a fucking pandemic and you pull this shit!” So why I’m I so upset? The U.S. Supreme court has ruled, That the good people of Wisconsin By a 5–4 vote, can’t extend the deadline for mail-in ballots in Wisconsin. Meaning people have to choose between their health or their civic duty. Some are going to choose voting. Some are going to get sick. And some are going to die. The Supreme court will have blood on its hands.
The decision came just hours after the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Gov. Tony Evers’s (D) executive order to postpone Tuesday’s vote, sowing confusion and chaos around a critical election featuring a Democratic presidential primary and a pivotal state Supreme Court seat.
A seat that were Republicans to lose could set the stage for them to the end of their vice grip on power in the Wisconsin Supreme court for a long time.
The thought of that happening was too terrible for Roberts and company. So moving quick as lighting, they took the case, putting the health of many people in serious risk.
In writing for the minority Ruth Ginsburg wrote:
This court now intervenes at the eleventh hour to prevent voters who have timely requested absentee ballots from casting their votes.”
"Under the district court’s order, they would be able to do so. Even if they receive their absentee ballot in the days immediately following election day, they could return it," Ginsburg added. "With the majority’s stay in place, that will not be possible. Either they will have to brave the polls, endangering their own and others’ safety. Or they will lose their right to vote, through no fault of their own."
Which of course is the fucking point.
Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, not constrained by judicial decorum went even further. "I am about to explode, he tweeted. "The five GOP US Supreme Court justices just overruled two lower courts and shut off extended absentee voting in Wisconsin."
He added, "The Supreme Court of the United States legislated from the bench today, following Trump team's orders and writing a new election law to disenfranchise untold thousands of Wisconsin voters and consign an unknown number of Wisconsinites to their deaths."
And make no mistake this is a preview of what is coming in November. This will be the playbook for helping Trump steal the election. So let’s not be polite anymore. Let’s not pretend Judge Roberts is an umpire calling balls and strikes. Hell, Let’s not even say he’s a judge. Let’s call him and his entire party what they really are fucking murderers.
Posted with permission