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Chief Justice John Roberts spoke, in Sept. 2017, during the Bicentennial of Mississippi’s Judiciary and Legal Profession Banquet in Jackson, Miss. Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s description of a judge who ruled against the administration’s new asylum policy as an “Obama judge.”
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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts remarked that we have an independent judiciary (“Chief Justice John Roberts raps Trump for ‘Obama judge’ comment; Trump hits back,” Star-Advertiser, Top News, Nov. 21).
If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is apolitical, then why are 79 percent of its rulings overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court?
Appeals take years to get to the top court. “Justice delayed is justice denied” is not just a saying; it’s the reality today, as the process moves at a snail’s pace.
Roberts’ courts now perform executive and legislative-branch functions, challenging our system of governance.
It’s not just the 9th Circuit. A recent ruling by a federal judge in Michigan said a federal law outlawing female genital mutilation is unconstitutional. This ruling condones a barbaric religious practice that inflicts assaults on young girls, turns humanity on its head and is a direct attack on our civilization.
Jim McDiarmid
Mililani
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