Glenn Beck (24:53)
All right, let me set the stage here. All right? Chief Justice John Roberts, the supposed guardian of judicial restraint, has once again stepped into the spotlight, not with a gavel, but with a press release. Now remember, these are the justices that go to the State of the Union. And you could say, George Washington, he was the best. And, and America, it's the best. It's done some things wrong, but it's really, really super great. And they're not allowed to applaud, they're not allowed to show any kind of deference one way or another. They sit there with their hands folded. Why? So you don't show any kind of support one way or another. You are a neutral party. Okay, so he issues a press release. Strangely, not through the Supreme Court, not through the usual channels. Why? We'll get into that later. So it's a really rare move for a Chief justice to do this. Uh, and he rebukes the president, President Trump, for suggesting that judges who overstep their bounds might face impeachment. Okay, well, first of all, Trump, not known for his subtlety, uh, him saying things like this, not really novel. Really? And this opinion, isn't that novel? The Constitution vests Congress with the power to check the judiciary just as it checks the executive. It's a blunt tool. I mean, it's impeachment, but it is in Article 3. It's not a blank check for black robe philosopher kings. Okay? And it has been done in the past. It's a very high bar, as it should be. Just like impeachment for the President. How dare you say he should be impeached. Why? Why is it wrong for them to say you wanna impeach the President? Is it wrong for people to call for impeachment? Cause that's in the Constitution. You may not like it, you may think that that's not the standard, but it is not something that you come out and go, oh my gosh, how dare you? You're safe. Oh, I gotta clutch my pearls. I'm not even wearing pearls. I wish I was transgender right now, cuz I'd be having my strand of pearls that I can clutch. No, that's in the Constitution. Yet Roberts in his indignation, clutching his pearls, crying out, this is a threat to judicial independence. Okay, okay. All right, okay, hang on. Now. It's not wrong to defend the appellate review process. Usually these things come out when you're giving a talk to, you know, law students or something. You'll say, you know, I. That's not the way it works, et cetera, et cetera. But no, no, no, no, no, no. This was an official statement, and he's spoken about this even eloquently at times about the proper, you know, the proper channels to correct judicial error. 2018. He remind us, we don't have Obama judges or Trump judges or Bush judges or Clinton judges. We just have a judge. Well, yeah, okay, I wish that were true, but it's not C. D.C. district judges, but he's come out and said that, and that would be the right thing. I wish we didn't have those. The system is designed so higher courts can sift through the lower ones, not for pitches for pitchforks and. And gavels to fl. Now, Trump is not, you know, parsing Mayberry versus Madison. That's not what he was doing. Okay? It's not like, you know, I'd like to make an intellectual case on this. He's like, I think this is impeachable. So here's the president saying this, and the, the judicial branch trying to muzzle him doesn't. I mean, I don't care. But free speech, it's not bent away from the. The commander in chief, is it? I mean, can the Commander in chief, Can. Can the president have his point of view? Just like can John Roberts have his point of view? John Roberts should have his own point of view based solely on the Constitution, and he should have the restraint to look impartial every step of the way. I wonder, can he be trusted to try anything, anything to review anything on Donald Trump? And let me make this case. Trump thinks that Justice, Justices that are overreaching by inventing rights or rewriting statues from the statutes, from the bench. He thinks that that is impeachable. Okay? He has every right to say so. You know, the, the framers didn't build a system where only judges can chime in on things. But Roberts seems to think that Trump's words carry some, I don't know, hypnotic power that's going to frame America's view of the judiciary as a pinata for political whacking. Only Donald Trump can do that. But he doesn't even own his own Statement, a formal deliberate, not some offhanded quip framing Trump in this light as a. I don't know, a hypnotist? I don't know. Isn't there something to be seen here from the Chief Justice? I mean, he's not just scolding, he is signaling. I'm the arbiter of propriety. I'm the one that will tell what's right and what's wrong. That is a power play dressed as principle. How do I know that? Let me ask you this. Where was his righteous pin? When did he say, someone get me a quill? When Biden railed against the Supreme Court as out of control or a extremist court, that maybe we should add two or three more justices until we get it right? Where was. Get me my quill. I must clutch my pearls and write a missive out right now. Where was that? He didn't say anything about that. He didn't say anything about that. And that one's a pretty well established idea. We don't do that. But if you want to just look at them as face value, I think one is stronger than the other. But if you want to just take it as even Trump said this, and it is. It's. Even though it's in the Constitution. How dare you. And the other that Biden did is not in the Constitution, but you could read it any way you want if you'd like. And only one of them gets in trouble from the Supreme Court. Well, I mean, I don't understand. Hmm. No statements, not a lecture, nothing. Apparently, the threat only comes from Donald Trump. Now, let me remind you, this is a guy who twisted him. I mean, the guy. The guy was a pretzel with. With Obamacare. He was so twisted inside and out. He. He changed Obamacare. He rewrote Obamacare out of a tax or. No, into a tax. Right. Was it in tax or out of it? I can't remember one way or another. He said exact opposite of what the bill actually said. Remember with Obamacare, he's like it. What he should have said was, this isn't written correctly. I'm sending it back to Congress. If they want it to be a tax, they can write it that way. No, he didn't do that. He just said, yeah, I'm gonna rewrite it. That's not his job. I mean, he's a gymnast. He bent over backwards. In 2015, saying, Established by the state could mean federal government because, well, intent matters more than text. Now, the text is pretty important, really kind of important, because if you get too far away from the people that actually said something, you know, and did something, and you don't really know what their intent is. I don't know. I've read, I've read a lot of history books, and then I've, I've read a lot of journals of those people that the history books were written about. They don't say the same thing. This is a, what he was doing. Amending the Constitution from the bench is the biggest betrayal, Constitutional betrayal of the first order. The Constitution, John, is not a suggestion. It's a contract. Roberts of, of all people should know that. So here we are, Chief justice who wields his platform selectively chastising a president for speaking his mind, while the other presidents speaking their mind, saying things like, this is an extremist court. This is why we, we just, we, we have to start all over again with the Supreme. That's why you don't say anything about that guy. Hmm. Hmm. Trump's call for the impeachment in the Constitution may be misguided. I don't know. I kind of agree with it myself. But when you look at the history of impeaching judges, it's. The bar is super, super high. Okay? And it should be just like the bar to impeach the president. It should be super, super high. I think that this is impeachable, but I don't think you're going to make that case. The real question is, is why does John Robert think his voice should drown out the rest? Why does he think he is the one that should be heard on this? I mean, if you're worried about framing, oh, this guy is. This guy's framing this, you know, all wrong, and people are going to follow him. What the hell are you doing? Maybe you should look in the mirror here, John. Maybe it's just me, but somehow I don't think it is. Here's what's coming. We knew this because, what was it a month ago? And do I have this in my show prep? I know I have it someplace today. You know, when you're looking at. When you're looking at what's coming. We told you this because they told us this months ago that what they were going to do was activate all of these activist judges. They were going to file suits. They were going to do everything they could. Instead of stopping him in the streets, which didn't work, they're going to start trying to stop him in the court system. Well, that. Honestly, guys, you didn't really learn your lesson. He's not Stopped by the court system. I don't know. You tried that before, but go ahead. You're going to try it again. That's all that's happening. This isn't about the truth. This is about a group of desperate people who know they're being exposed right now. Why do you think they're so freaked out? Because they're being exposed. It's over. It's over. You're not getting the cash from the people anymore. You're not just gonna milk the system until all of us are just out of milk. No, it's over. The game is over. And so what do they have to do? They have to do whatever they can. Well, they can't put people on the streets because that didn't work out for them. So now, and they told us this, just go. Just go after Donald Trump in every possible way in the court. Just get him tied up in the court. Well, that sure tells you how much they love America, doesn't it? Especially when you have somebody like Schumer saying, you know, just a few years ago, look, we all know there's waste. We all know there's fraud in the government, and it has to be. It has to be stopped. Well, wait, then, so we're stopping it and now you're not for that? Hmm? What else is going on? And why is it that John Roberts is only speaking out against Trump and didn't say boo under Biden? Is it possible that he wanted to, but he was afraid? Because the left were the ones that sent people to the justice's house to kill the justices? And he knows the people on the right aren't that. We're not that kind of people. We don't do that. We don't believe in that. 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