Chief Justice Roberts Explains the Obvious

  

To “check the excesses of Congress, or of the executive.” 

5/7/25: The MAGA fanatics are fuming because federal judges keep ruling against the MAGA God. Many of the worst priests and priestesses have begun calling for judges who rule in ways they dislike to be impeached. 

Or killed? 

In a clear attempt to intimidate the judiciary, some anonymous nut – or bag of nuts – has been sending unordered pizzas to the homes of jurists, in the name of a judge’s son who was murdered when he opened the door of his home to a supposed pizza delivery. 

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has warned: 

The targeted individuals reportedly include Supreme Court justices, judges handling legal cases involving the Administration, and the children of judges. Some of these deliveries were made using the name of Judge Esther Salas’s son, Daniel Anderl, who was murdered at the family’s home by a former litigant who posed as a deliveryman. 

 

Chief Justice Roberts.

Chief Justice John Roberts has also taken note of the many the threats. During an interview Wednesday he made a point of standing up for the role of an independent judicial branch – in the face of the MAGA fools. 

“In our constitution, the judiciary is a coequal branch of government [emphasis added], separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law and strike down acts of Congress or acts of the president,” he pointed out. “And that innovation doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent.”

 

“Its job is to, obviously, decide cases, but in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or of the executive, and that does require a degree of independence,” he added, drawing applause from the crowd.

 

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This blogger can add that as a former American history teacher, he explained the job of the three branches this way: 

Legislative branch: Makes the laws. 

Executive branch: Carries out or enforces the laws. 

Judicial branch: Interprets the laws and the Constitution.

Chart from an old history book.
(Note the salaries.)

BACKGROUND: In July 2020, Judge Esther Salas’s son, Mark Anderl was shot and killed when a man posing as a pizza delivery man shot and killed him when he answered the door. Her husband Mark Anderl was also shot and wounded. In an online autobiography, the killer attacked feminists, generally. Then he described Salas as a “lazy and incompetent Latina judge appointed by Obama.” 

As ABC News explained: The assassin “further criticized Salas’ accomplished resume, writing that ‘affirmative action got her into and through college and law school,’ and dismissed her private practice and public defender work. Her one accomplishment, he wrote, was ‘high school cheerleader.’”