{"id":7053632,"date":"2026-09-01T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/chief-justice-roberts-and-his-scorching-dissent\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:00:08","slug":"chief-justice-roberts-and-his-scorching-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7053632","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice Roberts And His Scorching Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He grew a spine? Will he keep it? That would be a nice change of pace, as opposed to just one case. Well, the good guys still didn\u2019t win, but at least he figured out something. That damn ballroom construction can start up again. Thanks for nothing to the 5 who said yes. *We* are paying for the fscking thing, not private donors. We knew it was too good to be true, especially after the cost ballooned and took off up and up because Trump has to have his 999 (!!!!!!!) person ballroom. And by the way? There is *already* a bunker under the White House. What in the hail did we need another one for? Does Trump want to be buried in it?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s startling to find out that Roberts dissented. He is the third person who is *unlikely* to do so, after Thomas and Alito. The corruption is nauseating. No wonder Trump and most of SCOTUS work so well together. It seems that very few people in that court have a conscience \u2026 or much of a brain, for that matter. They just do what Trump wants and never bother to think about it. It is absolutely infuriating. SCOTUS is the highest court in America. They should be apolitical. Fat chance. Not anymore. And until one of them retires when Democrats are in power, we\u2019re stuck with a mostly corrupt, Trump-directed excuse for a court.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/john-roberts-2677800267\/\"><em>Raw Story<\/em><\/a>, some quotes from Roberts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Roberts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoyceWhiteVance\/status\/2094519349386080399\">joined with the three liberals<\/a>\u00a0in <strong>a dissent against his conservative colleagues<\/strong>, outlining what he sees as <strong>the simple<\/strong>, <strong>plain fact that Congress hasn\u2019t granted any authority<\/strong> to move ahead with the project. \u201cThe President ordered the demolition of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/white-house-ballroom-2677792862\/\">East Wing of the White House<\/a>\u00a0to make way for a new, privately funded state ballroom in its place. Construction of the ballroom has proceeded apace for the better part of a year,\u201d he wrote. \u201c<strong>That construction is likely unlawful<\/strong>.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Roberts cited 40 U.S.C. \u00a7 8106<\/em><\/strong><em>, <strong>which states that it is illegal to construct any<\/strong> \u201c<strong>building or structure<\/strong> \u2026 on any reservation, park, or public grounds <strong>of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress<\/strong>.\u201d \u201cThe ballroom is a building or structure being erected on federal park grounds \u2014 President\u2019s Park \u2014 in the District of Columbia,\u201d Roberts continued. \u201cYet <strong>Congress has not passed any law resembling<\/strong> <strong>\u2018express authority<\/strong>\u2018 for the Executive\u2019s construction of it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That was a bit longer a section than usual, but it needed to be included. Congress has not approved the construction. Therefore, the construction shouldn\u2019t be happening. We all wish that we had our East Wing back, and this monstrosity, which is NOT privately funded, never got further than a concept. Trump had no business doing this. It\u2019s too late now. I, at least, am still furious about the loss of the East Wing and how much history had to have been lost. It\u2019s GONE.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Trump is getting his ballroom after all. By the time anything moves through the lower courts, it will be too late. And it\u2019s going to be bigger than the White House. Trump is nearly impossible to comprehend. And the Pz writer who did it best is on hiatus. He is missed. In the meantime, we can both fume and be disgusted with SCOTUS.<\/p>\n<p><em>Friends, I know everybody begs you for money. I promise you that, of all the outlets bugging you for spare change, we are the smallest and the hardest-working. We\u2019re a bunch of old, disabled people, except for one writer in his mid-50s. But the rest of us are in our sixties and seventies, and this is a labor of love. All we\u2019re asking for is the ability to continue our quest to tell the truth about Trump and help ensure democracy survives. If you can help, please do.\u00a0Thank you. 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Thanks for nothing to the 5 who said yes. *We* are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7053633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215896,215897,97133,150769,104284],"tags":[977,3576,215898,26625,12721,6122,32697,1175],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7053632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballroom","category-chiefjusticeroberts","category-opinion","category-scotus","category-trump","tag-ballroom","tag-chief","tag-chiefjusticeroberts","tag-dissent","tag-justice","tag-roberts","tag-scorching","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chief Justice Roberts And His Scorching Dissent - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7053632\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chief Justice Roberts And His Scorching Dissent - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"He grew a spine? 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