Larry Klayman, the dumbest lawyer in America, is hopping mad about the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the individual mandate. And like most wingnuts, he simply can’t accept that Chief Justice John Roberts changed his mind and is speculating wildly about dark conspiracies.
What explains Chief Justice Roberts’ conversion from one who had decided to strike down Obamacare to a justice who dishonestly twisted and perverted the law to uphold it as constitutional? Was it simply a desire, as some political and legal pundits have speculated, to allegedly “save” the institution of the court by caving in to the left – which in recent years had railed against the conservative majority – and kissing the derriere of President Obama himself? In this way was Chief Justice Roberts painting “his” court as the court for all people, be they left, right, black or white ? Or was it something more sinister? Given real-world realities, you have to ask whether Roberts was bribed or blackmailed into precipitously turning tail and casting his lot with the socialists…
Was Chief Justice Roberts was (sic) bribed, blackmailed or just playing political games with his Obamacare change of heart? As the old proverb goes, “Where there is smoke there is usually fire.” Since judges and, in this case, justices should not be treated as royalty, and certainly are not above the law, is it not reasonable for Roberts to be thoroughly investigated over his lawless actions?
And you know who should do the investigating, don’t you? Klayman is going to go outside the system and convene his own grand jury:
Instead, it again turns to We the People to investigate and, if Chief Justice Roberts was bribed or blackmailed, mete out justice. As I have been writing about in recent weeks, one way to do this is through the Citizens Grand Jury, which our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us to use in trying times like these.
I am currently in Ocala, Fla., organizing and implementing a Citizens Grand Jury to do the job our public institutions and government law enforcement authorities should be doing. That’s because it’s time that we citizens do what must be done, peacefully and legally. If we do not take responsibility for saving the nation, then all will soon be lost.
Ah, I can see it now. They’ll hold the grand jury proceedings in his Uncle Skeeter’s barn, with everyone dressed in period costume with tri-cornered hats and muskets. It’ll be like a renaissance fair for morons. And then they’ll report their findings to an actual authority, who will laugh and toss it in the circular file.
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thompjs
July 11, 2012 at 11:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed, how do people like this earn a living?
theschwa
July 11, 2012 at 12:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I saw this in a museum in DC. It was in a glass case bearing the instruction: “In case of judicial emergency, break glass. Aim away from face.”
dean
July 11, 2012 at 12:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It won’t be in the barn. If you know about it so do the Feds. It’ll be some secret clubhouse in the dark of a full moon, with cool secret knocks and everything.
And yea, how does this guy make a living?
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
July 11, 2012 at 12:06 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Nil combustibus Profumo. (Old joke; tip o’ the cap to the late, great Michael Flanders).
slc1
July 11, 2012 at 12:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Larry Klayman and Orly Taitz, a couple made for each other.
eric
July 11, 2012 at 12:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You forgot the 21st century’s denoumont: after being filed, some blogger will FOIA it, and everyone will get to laugh.
tacitus
July 11, 2012 at 12:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Just once, I would like to see one of these wingnuts submitting to an in-depth interview where they are pressed to explain, in detail, what this actually means instead of the endless regurgitation of vague and baseless scaremongering trot out every at every opportunity.
Then, if the interviewer is successful in extracting some specifics (fat chance, I know) ask them how nations like France, Sweden, Germany, and Norway have remained prosperous nations after decades of pursuing these same policies that will be the end of America.
I know, it’ll never happen, but one can dream…
tacitus
July 11, 2012 at 12:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
LOL — you’re playing to an audience of one (or maybe two) with that one, but thanks for the memory…
fifthdentist
July 11, 2012 at 12:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And this, kids, is why it’s not a good idea to live on a diet of nothing but distilled water and Golden Grain.
d cwilson
July 11, 2012 at 12:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There were about a dozen or so “citizens grant juries” that “indicted” President Obama for impersonating a citizen. Their findings met with about the same result.
I’d modify tacitus’ fantasy a little: Just once, have a report ask a wingnut to explain, in detail, how the sky is going to fall whenever a democrat adopts a policy that they themselves used to promote.
In particular, I’d like someone to sit McCain and Palin down and play clips of the both of them promoting cap and trade during the 2008 campaign, then ask them to explain how that exact same policy morphed into “cap and tax” as soon as the election was over.
joe_k
July 11, 2012 at 1:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Wait. Since when was a Supreme Court Justice ruling on a case put before the Supreme Court ‘lawless’? That makes even less sense than every other rightwinger who can’t stand that the ACA was upheld…
d cwilson
July 11, 2012 at 2:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
joe_k:
“Lawless” is the new catch phrase for “activist judge”, ie, a judge who made a ruling they don’t like.
jnorris
July 11, 2012 at 4:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Citizens Grand Jury will meet in a barn at night under torchlight wearing white robes and hoods. The traditional ceremonial regalia of Wingnutery.
mikeym
July 11, 2012 at 4:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Is there a book next to Klayman’s computer? Is it the style book from TV’s syndicated woo-fest, In Search Of…? Is it open to Chapter 3: Oblique Questions?
Modusoperandi
July 11, 2012 at 5:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Not as long as Joe Arpaio’s on the beat!
whheydt
July 11, 2012 at 5:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re: #4 (Hercules):
Did you hear that Christine Keeler tried to commit suicide? She was found lying under a peer… (Works better spoken, of course.)
Yeah…Flanders & Swann were great.
–W. H. Heydt
jefferylanam
July 11, 2012 at 6:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
In Alaska, the “Citizens’ Grand Jury” meets at Denny’s.
Larry
July 11, 2012 at 8:09 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And no doubt these citizen grand juries would be conducted with the solemnity and grandeur of a Three Stooges pie fight and result in basically the same results.
vmanis1
July 11, 2012 at 8:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh dear, we have our choice of discussing wingnuts or Flanders and Swann. That’s an easy choice…“Mud, mud, glorious mud/Nothing’s quite like it for cooling the blood/So follow me, follow/Down to the hollow/And there we will wallow/In glorious mud”.
My mind feels much cleaner now.