Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
says federal judiciary needs to ensure
judges don't have conflicts of interest
when presiding over financial cases after
investigation found 131 broke the rules
by owning stock
Daily Mail (UK),
by
James Gordon
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/1/2022 10:13:13 PM
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the federal judiciary needs to do more to ensure judges don't participate in cases where they have financial conflicts of interest. Roberts made the comments as part of his annual report on the federal judiciary released Friday evening. Roberts pointed to a series of stories recently in The Wall Street Journal that found that 'between 2010 and 2018, 131 federal judges participated in a total of 685 matters involving companies in which they or their families owned shares of stock.' Federal judges and Supreme Court justices are required under a federal ethics law to recuse themselves from cases where they have a personal
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/1/2022 10:19:36 PM (No. 1025629)
This is getting messier by the day. What rule of law are we going to have this year?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 1/1/2022 10:33:50 PM (No. 1025631)
I trust AOC more than I trust Roberts. And he has more juice.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Scribelus 1/1/2022 10:44:04 PM (No. 1025633)
I venture to say that the executive and legislative branches are fully as dirty as the judicial. And the swine are going to get away with it. There are no scolds in those branches, even as feckless as the Chief Justice.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rabid Wombat 1/1/2022 10:55:51 PM (No. 1025634)
Now do Congress…
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/1/2022 11:12:35 PM (No. 1025639)
Here's a novel concept: Blind Trusts for ALL Federal workers. None can own stock and none in their families either, period.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/2/2022 1:47:18 AM (No. 1025669)
So Chief Just-Us wants to reign in the town tired system. Bull Schiff! He is only putting cup a smoke screen so most will not see the Supreme Joke of the United States continue to issues ruling expanding goobernment power while destroying the constitution. This guy is beyind political. He is now playing the straw man political games to distract the ordinary citizen from the extraordinary malfeasance of the Judicial branch. How I loath this creature pretending to be a man!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 1/2/2022 4:36:50 AM (No. 1025677)
Will John "Limp-D-ck" Roberts over see this mess? Or will he duck it like all other controversial issues he has noted in the past?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 1/2/2022 5:35:02 AM (No. 1025695)
Roberts forgot to mention political favors or pay backs.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/2/2022 5:39:27 AM (No. 1025700)
I bet all of them are demonrats too since none face any consequences to their illegal actions. Demonrats protect demonrats and I include Roberts with that bunch.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/2/2022 6:04:28 AM (No. 1025711)
Our lives are in the hands of self-serving swine. Their fingers are crossed under their black robes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/2/2022 6:06:12 AM (No. 1025712)
There's Roberts pretending that he has a bit of integrity. While financial decisions are important and should not be clouded with the optics of bias, he should take the glint from his own eye in the matters of National security and those affecting the survivability of the Republic. Speaking of Roberts and with apologies to "Star Wars", The money of Soros is strong in that one. There is no way that 84 cases should be eschewed for "lack of standing" and not one being heard during the question of the election of 2020.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/2/2022 6:47:55 AM (No. 1025730)
The so-called "federal judiciary" should be term-limited.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
HPmatt 1/2/2022 7:16:20 AM (No. 1025742)
Now that Roberts cleaned up the FISA court…..yeah, sure dumb A.
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Term limits for Congress are appealing but the other side of that coin is representation as expressed via elections.
Term limits for judges, however, are necessary and long overdue. Once nominated and confirmed, they are a law unto themselves as countless cases large and small demonstrate. They can claim the Constitution says XYZ and stick 3,000 words of boilerplate behind it knowing that few will challenge it. For an example, read Kennedy's ludicrous, simple-minded opinion on Obergefell.
Lifetime judgeships are absolute power personified. And the result is inevitable.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 1/2/2022 7:42:49 AM (No. 1025763)
Corrupt Roberts speaks... But on one listens.
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they broke the rules and then what? consequences? referrals to ethics boards?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Otis Gill 1/2/2022 7:53:12 AM (No. 1025775)
Roberts stated, "We expect judges to adhere to the highest standards." So do we Johnnie, but you have failed us. Our judiciary is corrupt, and Roberts is clearly not a man of high standards, Somewhere along the way he was compromised, and it all started with the Obamacare vote.
And the day after the 2020 presidential election, didn't' Alito order Pennsylvania to separate any mail in ballots that came in late? It appears the authorities in PA just ignored his order. Typical Marxist lawlessness and not a peep out of the cowardly Republicans.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/2/2022 8:10:31 AM (No. 1025783)
#17, Alito denied a request , prior to the election, for an emergency stay in Pennsylvania. Instead, he directed that Pa counties segregate the ballots in question.
Several urban counties in Pa ignored him.
There is a need for clarity in this matter of conflict of interest.
A judge should not hold a financial interest in any case he is deciding. But what about his wife? Children? Cousins? In laws? Where do we draw the line? And does anyone really believe Alito could be compromised on a case where he held 2000 dollars worth of Disney stock?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/2/2022 8:37:08 AM (No. 1025804)
Reverend Roberts is preaching to the choir.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
broken01 1/2/2022 8:40:14 AM (No. 1025805)
So says a walking talking Chief Justice conflict of interest.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chillijilli 1/2/2022 8:56:27 AM (No. 1025828)
Hmmm. So let's see...is he talking solely about "financial" conflicts of interest? Or is this a veiled attempt to warn the other Justices to recuse themselves when they may have moral, religious, or cultural conflicts of interest as well?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
walcb 1/2/2022 8:56:39 AM (No. 1025829)
Nasty Pelousy insists on the same ethics in Congress. /s
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If 131 Judges broke the rules, why aren't there 131 bills of impeachment pending in Congress? "Justice" in the Federal Government has become a synonym for "impunity."
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/2/2022 9:28:01 AM (No. 1025852)
Who says the federal judiciary isn't completely corrupt?
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Financially corrupt is not our biggest risk.
If we could just get rid of the blackmailed justices, we would finally have some justice.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
curious1 1/2/2022 10:34:35 AM (No. 1025934)
How about political conflicts of interest? Does that count, Roberts?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
cold porridge 1/2/2022 10:35:36 AM (No. 1025936)
And yet Just Us Roberts said not too long ago that there were to biased judges. What a piece of crap.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/2/2022 10:50:50 AM (No. 1025956)
Like the nervous nancy family's interest in uncertain rulings that benefit her family...she became a billion on the backs of American taxpayers...no wonder she bought a millionaire's mansion in Florida now that she and her nephew newsom...governor of California.... have completely ruined California...
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Speedy2 1/2/2022 11:01:22 AM (No. 1025969)
The Supreme Court has lost its way.
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At some point, you just have to stockpile arms and ammunition and protect yourself and your family, regardless of the cost. The government at all levels is too corrupt to take care of anyone except themselves.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Kumoan 1/2/2022 11:48:54 AM (No. 1026018)
Pot, Kettle, Very dark color
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 1/2/2022 12:00:37 PM (No. 1026030)
So, will those 131 be impeached and removed as they should be?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 1/2/2022 12:14:45 PM (No. 1026046)
Is it true that Roberts took trips to Lolita island?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/2/2022 12:25:36 PM (No. 1026059)
Well MR. Roberts, you are their BOSS, if you had any cahones you would FIRE ALL OF THEM!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/2/2022 12:55:56 PM (No. 1026091)
I think it’s a little late for that but good luck anyway
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 1/2/2022 5:12:32 PM (No. 1026285)
That's rich. He should be tried and executed for treason.
Big pal of Epstein and frequent flyer on the Lolita express.
He's a pervert and a pedophile.
Change my mind.
NEXT!
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A republic not bent on its own destruction would ensure that US Supreme Court justices don't have extensive blackmail portfolios waiting to be used against them.