John Roberts is shirking his bootlicking duties
by digby
Trump spent the morning watching Fox News and tweeting looney tweets quoting the likes of Jason Chaffetz:
In case you’re wondering what this crazy business about the Chief Justice is about, this explains it:
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says he will ask Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate possible abuse of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court during the 2016 election.
Noting that President Trump is “down” on the FISA court, Graham, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters on Thursday he will make a call to ask, “‘Would you please look and see what happened?’ because I don’t want to lose the FISA program.”
As the chief justice, Roberts has the power to appoint judges to the FISA court.
Evidently, Trump and his accomplices want Roberts to discipline the FISA court in some way and are unhappy that he hasn’t stepped up to lick Trump’s boots the way he is supposed to. The court is there to serve the King. Everybody knows that.
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