There are certain dates that have become a regular feature in American life. In February, the Sandhill Cranes return to the Platte River in Tennessee. In March, the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano…and in October, the protesters have returned to Hupper Island, the summer vacation home of Chief Justice Roberts.
The last migratory pattern is more recent and certainly less welcomed. In past years, liberal protesters have descended on the homes of conservative justices to disrupt their lives, shout abuses, and, in one case involving Justice Brett Kavanaugh, seek to kill a member of the Court. Protesters outside the home of Justice Amy Coney Barrett left bloody dolls on the lawn, knowing that she had young children inside.
This week, the protesters appeared at the vacation home of Chief Justice John Roberts in Maine. Calling themselves “kayak-tivists,” they formed flotillas facing his home to hold up signs and voice their displeasure at the jurist.
It is an ironic moment for a Chief Justice who has been regularly attacked by President Donald Trump for voting against his position in major cases ranging from tariffs to birthright citizenship. However, this is about rage not reason. Back in 2022, Becca Shaw Glaser wrote about how Mainers needed to harass Roberts whenever he ventured out of his home.
She wrote:
“Roberts is one of the most powerful people in the entire world. He comes to Maine to unwind and feel good about himself and his decisions, despite if he has just gutted our rights, forcing rape victims to give birth after an arbitrary time period determined by the government, gutted environmental protections, overruled basic gun regulations, decreed against the separation of church and state, and made politics much more unequal and infested with money.
Exactly why should we continue to let Roberts use Maine as his easygoing backdrop for fun and relaxation? Why should Roberts get to breathe in the beautiful Maine air when he is fine with destroying methods of keeping our air clean?…
Maine is not here as your happy place, your wind-down from all of your hard work destroying my civil liberties and democracy. No. May you never feel welcome here again…”
Glaser, who was later dropped as a columnist, has pushed Mainers to hound Roberts wherever he goes in Maine:
“Should you see Chief Justice John Roberts duck into Squid Ink coffee or the Port Clyde General Store this summer, consider letting him know exactly what you think of him and his illegitimate, ultra-conservative court. Yell, boo, whisper, weep audibly, give him the thumbs down or the finger, hand him a note, refuse to serve him.”
In its recent discussion of these protesters, the New York Times features Glaser and reveals how last year Glaser was approached by Roberts’ daughter, Josephine, who sought to defend her Dad during one of Glaser’s harassing protests. The Times recounts how liberals have been pushed to the breaking point by Roberts despite the fact that he has had to curtail his movement around the island.
One of the featured suffering locals is Wendy Schlotterbeck, who was outraged when Roberts was spotted celebrating the Fourth of July on the island. The Times sympathetically explains the outrage since “[Roberts] and his colleagues had just narrowed protections for transgender athletes and minors and allowed Trump’s immigration crackdown to proceed.” It recounts how Schlotterbeck has transgender relatives and “immigrant friends of hers [have] been arrested.” Outraged, she left the picnic and, the next day, joined the “kayak-tivists” outside Roberts’ home.
Protesting outside the home of a Supreme Court justice is a crime, though some of us have questioned the constitutionality of such laws. Putting that debate aside, the protests should be condemned by all Americans as reckless and wrong.
Justices may hold different views on the left or the right, but they are all people of good faith who are trying to protect what they consider the essential rights of our Republic. (Liberal justices have largely been spared such protests at their homes, though occasional protests have occurred).
What is maddening is that this Court has continued to show its independence in ruling with the law rather than a partisan agenda. Unlike those on the left who want to pack the Court with an instant liberal majority (in the name of fighting partisanship), the Court continues to vote overwhelmingly on a unanimous or nearly unanimous basis. The conservative majority also continues to rule against the Trump Administration when the law requires it.
This term has many potential blockbuster decisions and the protesters are expected to return to the homes of justices around Washington. We have every right to debate, and indeed protest, such decisions. However, we should all unite around all of these justices — on the left and the right — in denouncing these protesters literally bobbing and floating on a sea of rage.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
This column appeared on Fox.com
Most free speech advocates know that offensive speech needs the most protection.
You are not very good at being free speech advocates.
This kind of comment always shows up whenever Professor Turley criticizes someone’s speech and conduct. It stems from a failure to distinguish between criticism of the speech and suggesting the speaker should be prosecuted. If you read the article above (which I doubt you did), you will see that the professor never once suggests people should be prosecuted for their speech, and even when they break the law he says he disagrees with the law and thinks it might be unconstitutional. The only conduct mentioned above where the professor does not disagree with criminal prosecution is when a protester attempted to murder a Supreme Court justice.
Leaving bloody dolls on the porch of a family with young children also goes beyond pure speech, but the professor only goes as far as calling that “reckless and wrong,” rather than criminal. If you think denouncing that kind of behavior is inconsistent with supporting a robust enforcement of the First Amendment, then your deficiency is not only moral but intellectual.
Oldman,,
Great response with a clear statement about free speech. Someone like you should be teaching civics in every high school in America.
I said that years ago. The best teacher should make the one full-semester video, play it throughout the country, and teach through automation. One national teacher throughout the country. How is the communist union going to react?
excellent
Uh Jon, there is no Platte River in Tennessee, and no sandhill cranes. The Platte River is in Nebraska and is famous for sandhill cranes.
Sam
There most definitely is a Platte river in Tennessee and the Sandhill Crane festival is held on the Hiwassee and Tennessee Rivers as well.
New York’s own Chuck Schumer set an extremely poor example when he shouted at two of the Supreme Court justices several years ago. Now, these kayakers feel entitled to harass the Chief Justice about rulings of the Court. We have to wonder how many of these folks have actually read any of the decisions about which they complain.
None. They base their rage on the misinformation from the MSM, which they actually believe.
Many are the products of public education. Reading is a chore for them.
More enforcement of the law protecting the Justices; I believe most protester don’t know the actual reasons behind the decisions. They just protest.
Has Turley ever written an article critizing the violence committed by anti-abortion activists?
That would have been 30+ years ago, so probably not. If there are more recent incidents, they will have been trumpeted 24/7 by the liberal media. Professor Turley is in the 5% of media outlets that provide a little bit of balance.
Otoh, Professor Turley did report on a preacher arrested in the UK for preaching on John 3:16 across the street from a hospital where abortions were performed, who said absolutely nothing about abortion, as well as a woman arrested in the UK for praying silently near an abortion clinic.
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Ummmm – is the commenter not aware that abortion is itself a pre-meditated lethal act of violence? And against a defenseless victim?
Pretty sure he has – but there has been very little
Most violence has been done TOO pro-lifers.
Regardless – protest in front of the supreme court.
Protest in front of abortion clinics.
But protesting political views at a persons home is immoral and unethical – it should be illegal.
In the case of judges in some instances it is.
It is illegal
The protesters are mentally ill. They need psychiatric treatment, and in many cases, exorcism. Relatedly, they lack any understanding of reality. Every asserted basis for their displeasure is the exact opposite of reality. They are psychotic cells in the liberal hive mind. On top of all that, they are the most unhappy, miserable, repulsive creatures in American history. And their actions are counterproductive. Their absurdity will only push the targets of their irrational rage to the right.
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1. Where is the $2 per gallon gas?
2. Where is the less than 1% inflation rate?
3. Where are the low interest rates?
4. Where is home affordability for everyone?
5. Where is the administration’s full transparency?
6. Where are the Epstein files?
7. Where is the diplomacy without a war? (which is getting our soldiers killed)
8. Where are the low consumer prices?
9. Where is the booming economy?
10. Where is the separation between public office and private business? (using the WH to get richer)
11. Where is the oversight by the Republican led House, Senate, and SC?
12. Who are all the suckers who voted for an immoral con man?
13. Where is all the money he stole?
14. Who are all the immigrants he’s killing?
15. Who are the 10 million people who will lose the healthcare right after the midterm elections?
16. Who are the 300,000 federal workers they laid off without any justification?
17. Why are only rich people and large corporations getting tax breaks and assistance?
18. Why did his wife say the only book she’s ever seen him read is about Adolf Hitler?
19. Why are farmers going broke?
20. Why is ICE literally terrorizing our cities?
21. Why is the GOP using gerrymandering to pick voters, instead of following the Constitution and letting voters pick the politicians?
22. Why do we have to obey laws, but the president doesn’t?
23. Why do Republicans have so much distain for the Constitution?
25. Why would anyone vote for a Republican in the midterms?
26. Why don’t they like brown and yellow people (65% of the world population)?
27. Why don’t they like black people (15% of the world population)?
28. Why don’t they like LGBTQ people (10% of the world population)?
29. Why don’t they like people who live in urban cities (58% of the world population)?
30. Why don’t they like universities and colleges b/c calling them liberal indoctrination centers?
31. Why don’t they like highly educated people?
32. Why don’t they like strong and independent women?
33. Why don’t they like woman who want to make decisions about their own bodies?
34. Why do they always favor rich people over middle class and poor people?
35. Why don’t they like democracy?
36. Why did they promise to reduce the deficit then ran it up to the largest in U.S. history?
37. Why would anyone in their right mind vote for a Republican in 2026 or 2028?
Where is your brain?
Why don’t you use it?
Where were you Anonymous when the Biden Administration sent FBI agents to Facebook and Twitter to tell them what should be allowed to be posted? I can remember when you justified it.
Where were you Anonymous when the Department of misinformation was being created to censor American citizens by the Biden Administration? You supported it. Where were you Anonymous when California said that parents would lose custody of their children if they did not go along with the mutilation of their child’s reproductive organs?
You supported it.
Where were you Anonymous when men were allowed to parade naked in a high school girls locker room?
You supported it,
Where were you Anonymous when a trans man showed off his new size forty breasts on the Whitehouse lawn for the little kids in attendance who were there just to find easter eggs? You supported this one too.
In your diatribe against Trump you forgot to mention the resistance against his policies by the Democrats in Congress even if it ment that kids would be given a thousand dollars to be invested to be redeemed when they turned eighteen to pay for their further education. You supported not allowing this investment supporting the future of the nations children. When all these things happened we know where you were. You were licking boots and you still do.
Obummer wanted even more expensive gas. He said so.
But, in any event, I will happily accept $5 gas in exchange for those Iranian fanatics not getting a nuclear weapon.
Iran is the Jim Jones of nations and it isn’t content with only Kool Aid.
First – the ACTUAL promises of Trump and the GOP can be found in the 2024 Republican platform – Agenda 47.
None of what you claim below is in it.
“1. Where is the $2 per gallon gas?”
I filled up today – 3.81/gal. Lower than anytime Biden was president.
“2. Where is the less than 1% inflation rate?”
No one promised less than 1% inflation – the federal reserve wil NEVER allow that.
The fed needs inflation of atleast 1% and preferably 2% to be able to regulate the economy.
“3. Where are the low interest rates?”
Again the FED controls interest rates.
Regardless I refinanced at 9.8% during Biden’s presidency.
Current rates are about 6.8%
“4. Where is home affordability for everyone?”
Rents have dropped 5% on average in MOST major cities in the US – because of reduced demand due to deportations.
“5. Where is the administration’s full transparency?”
What is it that you want to know that you do not know ?
“6. Where are the Epstein files?”
Again no one promised you that – it is unconstitutional to provide you with that.
Regardless, you have gotten millions of pages, and if you are a victim you are free to sue and you can subpeona everything
“7. Where is the diplomacy without a war? (which is getting our soldiers killed)”
Again no one promised that – nor will anyone. If you are unwilling to go to war – you will be conquered.
What Trump promised is no endless wars.
Most sane people expect lasting peace in Ukraine and the mideast before Trump leaves office.
Absolutely he promised faster. But Trump may claim things are easier than they really are – but he accomplishes them regardless.
“8. Where are the low consumer prices?”
Wages are way up – you are paying less in real dollars than you were 2 years ago for most everything.
“9. Where is the booming economy?”
The Trump economy is running abotu 2-2.5 ties higher growth than Obama’s
It is running atleast double the real growth of Biden.
2Q 2026 was 3.8% the Atlanta Fed projects 3Q 2026 to be 5.1%
“10. Where is the separation between public office and private business? (using the WH to get richer)”
Again no one promised you that. Regardless Donald Trump Jr. – not the president is running the family business.
Donald Trump senior is running the country.
“11. Where is the oversight by the Republican led House, Senate, and SC?”
They are doing fine.
The courts are not responsible for oversite – they have no policy role.
They assure compliance witht he law and constitution – not ideology or policy.
“12. Who are all the suckers who voted for an immoral con man?”
The majority of americans.
“13. Where is all the money he stole?”
Have you had money stolen by Trump ?
If not then you have nothing to complain about.
False allegations are also known as lies.
“14. Who are all the immigrants he’s killing?”
Violent illegals and there are very very few of those.
ICE arrests overall involve far less violence and death than those of police.
There are about 7M arrests by law enforcement a year in the US – about several hundred people are killed.
ICE is arresting abit over 1M per year. There have been less than 10 deaths per year.
“15. Who are the 10 million people who will lose the healthcare right after the midterm elections?”
No one will lose healthcare. Hospitls are required by law to provide service even if you can not pay.
HHS is purging non-existant people from ObamaCare.
Are you really trying to argue that government should have to pay for health insurance for people who do not exist ?
“16. Who are the 300,000 federal workers they laid off without any justification?”
Not enough.
Regardless that is $100B/year in reduced federal spending.
“17. Why are only rich people and large corporations getting tax breaks and assistance?”
Their not. The standard deduction is nearly doubled – for those over 65 – it is 6500 more per year.
That is enormous tax savings for ordinary people , it is close to zero tax savings for the wealthy.
“18. Why did his wife say the only book she’s ever seen him read is about Adolf Hitler?”
She didn’t.
“19. Why are farmers going broke?”
There not.
Farm production Dropped in 2024 – it has risen in 2025.
Data from St. Louis FED
“20. Why is ICE literally terrorizing our cities?”
They are not – if you are a US citizen or legal resident ICE has absolutely no interest in you.
If you are not – Go home and you do not have to worry about ICE.
DHS will pay for your plane ticket and give you 3,000
That does not sound like Terrorizing to me.
“21. Why is the GOP using gerrymandering to pick voters, instead of following the Constitution and letting voters pick the politicians?”
They are not. SCOTUS ended racial gerrymandering – the result is a net gain of +10 GOP seats nationwide.
That number would be larger – Gut CA has actually gerrymandered 14 seats.
“22. Why do we have to obey laws, but the president doesn’t?’
Because you are not president.
Presidents order terrorists assassinated in foreign countries.
Can you do that.
“23. Why do Republicans have so much distain for the Constitution?”
They dont democrats do.
“25. Why would anyone vote for a Republican in the midterms?”
Because they do not like the poverty that left wing nuts bring.
“26. Why don’t they like brown and yellow people (65% of the world population)?”
They do – the overwhelming majority of the 1M legal US immigrants each year are coming from Asia and India and the pacific.
Further hsipanics voting republican are approaching 50%.
Increasingly the democratic party is the party of failed over educated single white people.
“27. Why don’t they like black people (15% of the world population)?”
Trump has doubled the number of blacks voting republican.
“28. Why don’t they like LGBTQ people (10% of the world population)?”
Why do you insist on fixating on identity ?
The world is made up of 100% humans.
In the US they all have THE SAME rights. Black yellow red brown, Straight, gay…
Trump is enforcing ACTUAL US law – Title 9 that requires colleges and universities to provide Women separate and equal sports oportunities
The LAW bars men from competing against women in sports – not just men who think thye are men, but also men who think they are women.
NO ONE is being discriminated against – not even Men who think they are women. All that is happening is that their delusion is not giving them the right to compete against ACTUAL women.
No one is entitled to special rights because of their delusions.
You do not become a women by claiming to be one.
You do not become black or hispanic by claiming to be one.
Night does not become day because you say it is.
The constitution and are laws were written for the real world – not your delusions.
“29. Why don’t they like people who live in urban cities (58% of the world population)?”
Massive catagory error.
You are free to live where you please – as am I.
No to humans have identical preferences.
Cities are not the perfect place to live – nor is the country.
Still some of us choose to live in the country and others in the city.
So long as no one is being FORCED to do so – or FORCED to subsidize the choices of others,
that is all fine.
I live in the country on 2 acres in the woods. the Yard my 3 dogs run in is larger than the apartment building most city dwellers live in.
I love where I live – but on occasion I visit the city. And every summer the roads in my community are filled with city dwellers who choose to visit the country.
Live where ever you want.
Just don’t FORCE me to subsidize your choices.
Regardless, choices are not people. I like most people. I even like most left wing nuts.
I get along with those in my life – and there are plenty.
Betting getting along is not the same as agreeing.
You are free to have whatever views you wish.
Your just not free to impose them on others by FORCE.
That is when we come in conflict.
USUALLY that does not preclude my “liking” you – but when you lose your sanity and and do not get
“Dont Tread On Me” – then you could end up with snake bites
“30. Why don’t they like universities and colleges b/c calling them liberal indoctrination centers?”
More left wing nut idiocy.
I like day care. I do not like day cares that molest children.
Parents are not paying to have their kids indoctrinated.
Stop F$%King with my kids and we will get along fine.
You are free to screw your own up as you please.
But unless the kids you are dealing with are your own – your JOB is to do what you were paid to do.
ACTUALLY educated them and help make them productive adults.
LEft wing nut nonsense is UNPRODUCTIVE – it makes people miserable and reduces their standard of living.
Again you are free to do that to your own kids.
Not those of others.
But as always you left wing nuts think you are entitled to impose your will on others and when you can not do that,
then you look to sabaotge the children of others.
“31. Why don’t they like highly educated people?”
I am highly educated – Trump is highly educated, Turley is highly educated.
Myriads of people on the right are highly educated.
Again catagory error – the issue is not your education – it is your stupidity – and worse still your desire to impose it on others by force.
It is truly distrubing that so many on the left are highly educated failures.
It is a tremendous waste that you have spent so much time and energy and other peoples money on your education,
and gotten so little out of it.
“32. Why don’t they like strong and independent women?”
ROFL – I love strong independent women. I am married to a very strong and independent woman
I am the son of a very strong and independent woman. My grandmother was a strong and independent woman.
I have a problem with people – male or female, straight or gay or trans who deliverately choose to lobotomize themselves.
Who are incapable of thinking for themselves.
To paraphrase Lenin – socialism is the opiate for the masses.
That you allow yourself to become addicted is sad.
But stop trying to FORCE your stupidity on the rest of us.
Join a commune if you want.
“33. Why don’t they like woman who want to make decisions about their own bodies?”
Who is stopping women from making choices with your own bodies ?
If you wish to amputate your own arm – that is your business.
You are not your car, just because you are in the car.
You amy do as you please with any part of your body that is part of your body.
If it does not have identical DNA to you – then it is not part of you, it is just in you.
But I will go significantly further – if you do not wish a a baby to be in your body – you are free to remove it.
But you are not free to kill it in the process. Should others or even society collectively through government choose to figure out how to preserve and grow the life you removed – so be it. And in that case just like the father, you are legally obligated to take care of it.
Women have no more or less rights than men with regard to the lives they create.
If you do not want the obligations of a child – do not create one.
It is the 21st century there is no reason that anyone should ever end up pregnant if they do not want to be aide from laziness.
“34. Why do they always favor rich people over middle class and poor people?”
I favor the productive over the unproductive. If you want my favor – make yourself more productive.
Regardless, only left wing nuts fixate on identity, wealth, class.
“35. Why don’t they like democracy?”
Because it is absolutely the most repressive political system in existance.
There is good reason that democracy died 2500 years ago with the greeks.
What I like, what I demand is SELF GOVERNMENT – that is not the same as democracy.
America is not a democracy – it is a republic. The word democracy is nowhere in the declaration of independence or the constitution.
Democracy is the tyranny of your neighbor.
John Stuart Mill has an excellent dismemberment of democracy in “On Liberty” – read and learn.
“36. Why did they promise to reduce the deficit then ran it up to the largest in U.S. history?”
A massive amount of the federal budget is on autopilot. It is nearly impossible for a president of congress to bring that under control.
Many of the things you pi$$ over above are efforts to do so.
Cutting federal employment takes a couple of hundred billion off the deficit each year.
The wasteful spending DOGE found was not even close to enough.
But atleast that is a start. DOGE has lead to hundreds of Billions in additional cuts.
Illegal Aliens increase the deficit by Billions.
Trade imbalances increase the deficit by Billions.
Tarriffs are one of the lest destructive forms of taxation – and reduce the deficit.
Cutting non-existant people off PPACA, Medicare, Medicaid and other govenrment programs reduces the deficit
Whether you like it or not you can not reduce the deffict by increasing taxes The US collects the revenue optimizing maximum amount of taxes.
Further tax increases result in a decline in economic growth and LOWER tax revenues.
The deficit must be brought under control by cutting spending.
“37. Why would anyone in their right mind vote for a Republican in 2026 or 2028?”
Because they are in their right mind.
John Say,
Great response!
Yeah, nothing more than a long list of lies.
1. The average cost of a gallon of gas when Biden was POTUS was $3.60 per gallon, including all state and local taxes, according to factually.com. If you are paying $3.81 per gallon now, it’s because your governor forgave the local taxes on gas–money that was budgeted to make highway improvements–not because of you, but to try to help Trump.
2. Trump DID promise that gas would not only be $2/gallon, but less, on multiple occasions.
3. Trump DID promise lower interest rates—from “Newsweek”: “During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump promised voters he would lower rates dramatically if elected, going as far as telling supporters in Arizona that he could bring them back to levels last seen during the pandemic-era housing boom.
“We will drive down the rates so you will be able to pay 2 percent again, and we will be able to finance or refinance your homes drastically at much lower costs,” he said during a rally in Tucson in September 2024.”
4. Rents and housing affordability: From “Go Banking Rates”: “Trump said rent is lower today “by a lot” than when he took office. Federal Reserve data shows rent has increased instead. The Consumer Price Index for Rent of Primary Residence rose from 429.506 in January 2025 to 441.708 in January 2026.”
5-6. Transparency: not only did Trump claim that he would release the entire Epstein files, he signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, and then promptly ignored it. There are, according to knowledgeable sources, credible allegations in the file that Trump sexually assaulted an underage girl. His administration released files that disclosed the names of several victims, but covered up the names of the alleged perpetrators.
7. Trump campaigned on the promise of: “no new wars”, and then fell for Netanyahu’s BS claim that Iran was poised to nuke us, AFTER claiming that the US had “totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity. Trump campaigned on the promise to end the Russo-Ukraine war “on day one”, and that he had special abilities to negotiate the end of hostilities. You claim that “sane people” would believe Trump’s lies–you have it backwards. Sane people know that Trump is a pathological liar.
8. lower consumer prices: Trump campaigned on the promise to lower the cost of energy, electricity, air fares, everything. He had no ability to do these things. Instead, the stupid war he started over a lie and his stupid tariffs have driven up the cost of everything–consumer goods, groceries, energy, etc.. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:, American workers’ paychecks are about where they were a year ago, and up 27 cents per hour in today’s dollars since President Donald Trump took office in 2025, because of inflation that has undercut pay increases. June’s average hourly wage gain of 3.5 percent from a year earlier just kept up with inflation of 3.5 percent over that same year-long period, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday.”
9. Trump says the economy is “booming”–that is another lie. Recent economic indicators point to steady but not booming conditions. Growth is positive, but below levels typically
associated with an economic boom (usually 3%+ GDP growth). Q2 2026 GDP growth: 1.5% annualized, down from 2.1% in Q1. Bureau of Economic Analysis
10. Trump isn’t “running” anything other than his mouth. He has leveraged the presidency for personal gain–selling worthless crypto which is purchased by overseas oligarchs who want and receive benefits in exchange. Trump approved the sale of advanced AI chips to UAE after they purchased his worthless crypto. Don, Jr. has a financial stake in a robotics business that just got a huge no-bid contract with the Department of Defense. All of these things are at least unethical, if not illegal.
11. Republicans have totally abdicated their oversight responsibility, which is why it is so critical that they get voted out in November–they let Trump do whatever he wants, and block efforts by Democrats to stop him. Senator Mike Lee of Utah voted down a measure to prevent Trump from tearing down the JFK Center For Performing Arts. Why aren’t they investigating the sale of AI chips to UAE, or Don, Jr.’s getting a no-bid contract for selling robotics to the Department of Defense? Why aren’t they putting their foot down on Trump trying to bribe people to vote Republican by promising a $5,000 check if Republicans win, or setting up “Trump Accounts”–all of which is our taxpayer money? Why don’t they do something about the illegal tariffs, which Trump just reimposed after the Supreme Court said they were illegal?
12. The “majority” of Americans did NOT vote for Trump–he did not receive even half of the votes cast, and only obtained a plurality of 1.48% over Kamala Harris. According to polls, if those voters who are not MAGA disciples had it to do over, they wouldn’t vote for Trump.
13. Trump filed a bogus lawsuit against the IRS for allegedly disclosing his tax returns (it was done by a contractor), and then Todd Blanche approved a “settlement” of $1,776 Billion–enough to give each of the J6 insurrectionists a $1 Million check–from our money. Trump was essentially suing himself–and the judge questioned why Blanche didn’t move to dismiss the case because there was not actual controversy between the plaintiff and defendant. The status of that lawsuit is still in limbo.
14. Migrants–where are all of the “animals, vermin, criminals, rapists and murderers” that Trump said would be the ones who would get rounded up and deported? According to statistics, migrants commit far fewer crives, especially violent crimes, than native-born American citizens.
15. Loss of healthcare–From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “CBO projects that roughly 15 million people will lose health coverage and become uninsured by 2034 due to the 2025 reconciliation law, the decision to let PTC enhancements expire, and other harmful ACA marketplace rule changes made by the Trump Administration.” Hospitals are only required to provide emergency care if your life is in danger or if a woman is in active labor, and they can bill you whatever they want. Uninsured medical bills are a leading cause of bankruptcy. Taking away coverage for preventive care will result in more people needing emergency care and higher costs, more preventable illnesses and deaths, more bankruptcies, closing of rural hospitals and nursing homes and clinics. Closing of rural hospitals is already happening in some states.
16. Arbitrary federal layoffs: Experts warn of “dangerous gaps” in critical services such as food safety inspections, Social Security processing, veterans’ healthcare, and disaster response. Federal News Network. The Partnership for Public Service and other advocates argue that the loss of expertise will take decades to repair. Critics also note that some separations were not truly voluntary, with employees facing implied coercion . The layoffs are part of the administration’s broader “downsizing” agenda, with the White House citing cost savings and reduced regulation. Wikipedia However, lawsuits and congressional pushback have questioned the legality and fairness of some actions, and some federal judges have ruled certain firings illegal while still upholding executive authority to limit reinstatements. Summary: The effects of federal worker layoffs are multi-layered:
Economic: Local and national income and tax impacts, especially in areas with high federal employment.
Service: Potential degradation of federal programs and public trust.
Political: Ongoing debates over executive authority, civil service protections, and the scope of government.
17. Tax breaks: “Analysis by ITEP shows that 69% of net tax cuts in 2026 will go to the top 20% of earners and the wealthiest 1% receive an average annual tax cut of $61,000, vastly exceeding benefits for other groups.”
18. In a Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump said that Trump kept a copy of HItler’s book on his nightstand.
19. According to “How Money Works”: “American farmers are in crisis — farm bankruptcies jumped 46% in 2025, total farm debt is heading toward a record $624.7 billion, and the median farm actually loses money (negative $1,498 per year). The suicide rate among farmers is 3.5 times the national average.”
20. ICE does terrorize cities–showing up in grocery stores, at school bus stops and other places and arbitrarily detaining people who look a certain way–all to meet quotas. Kids come home from school to find that their parents are gone.
21. Gerrymandering–Republicans are following Trump’s demand to try to rig the midterms by creating more red districts–that didn’t work in Indiana or Missouri–and the reason is simple–because voters have caught on to the fact that Trump lied to get into office, making promises he had no ability to keep, that he has alienated our allies, driven up the cost of everything with his illegal tariffs and the war he started.
22-23: Trump has no regard for the law, after the SCOTUS said he could not be prosecuted for actions taken while in office. He routinely ignores Court orders–like the Order to reinstate the credentials of CNN and now, Politico.
25. Why would anyone vote Republican? You got me. Republicans will NOT rein him in–they just let him pretend he is some kind of king. Other than hard-core MAGAs, the others who voted for Trump in 2024 believed his lies about bringing down the cost of groceries, energy, etc, and no new wars. They now know he lied. If things continue on the track we are on because of Trump, America is headed for disaster. He has alienated Canada and our EU allies, he has no idea how to stop the war he started, our national debt is soaring, costs of housing, everything, keep going up, and he keeps making enemies. Everything he does is for personal aggrandizement and/or to help out the oligarchs who donated so much money to get him elected. If he gets away with rigging the midterms or if the cavalcade of MAGA lies work and somehow Republicans keep control, we are in big trouble.
26. According to the latest statistics, Trump has a 69% disapproval rate among Hispanic voters. Why doesn’t Trump like brown/black migrants? He is a raging racist–he accused Haitian immigrants of eating people’s pets, and has moved to cancel the legal immigration status of black migrants. He tried to kick Lisa Cook, a black woman, off of the Federal Reserve Board because of her race. He has NO black members of his cabinet.
27. From “Newsweek”: “Trump’s claim that “almost 40 percent” of Black Americans who voted did so for him is not supported by polling and research data. No Republican candidate has achieved that level of support among Black voters since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.”
28. Why does Trump pick on LGBTQ people: simple–it’s part of the culture wars tropes that MAGA uses to hook voters.
29. What’s the issue with urban people–simple, again–more educated people live in urban areas, in blue states, like California, Illinois, New York, etc, and they tend to vote democratic. More rural dwellers tend to vote Republican.
30. Educated people–part of the MAGA pandering to its base–people with educations don’t fall for someone like Don the Con, they aren’t racist, misogynistic or xenphobic–all part of the MAGA philosophy.
Repeating Trump and MAGA lies does not convert them to the truth.
Thanks. More questions:
38. where is the check from Mexico to pay for the “big beautiful wall”?
39. Why hasn’t Trump resolved the Russo-Ukraine war, like he promised he would do “on day one”?
40. Why is it OK for Jared Kushner to have a financial stake in a company that provides implements of war to Israel, and to be sent as a representative of the United States to try to
broker a peace deal, when prolonging the war would make him more money? What elected or appointed office does Jared Kushner hold?
41. Why did Trump award no bid contracts for defense projects to a robotic company in which his son, Don, Jr. has a financial interest?
42. Why is Trump selling cryptocurrency, which is essentially worthless, with his image on it while occupying the White House?
43. By what authority is Trump continuing to promise a $5,000 check to all American citizens only if Republicans keep power? Where in the Constitution does it say that the Executive
can authorize such payments, or, is it another example of Trump assuming that Republicans will do whatever he wants?
44. Follow up to 43— Why is it OK for Republicans to allow Trump to promise to bribe citizens to vote Republican by offering $5,000 checks if they vote Republican?
This morning, the trolls are decrying how they “feel threatened” on this blog by insults–as they insult Professor Turley on a daily basis, harass justices, cancel speakers, and celebrate killing Christian debaters and CEOs.
If they win in November, that behavior will be normalized. Look at France today. The Greta Thunberg doll now includes arson and assault in her accessories. French public-sector employees are striking on Tuesday in solidarity with the arsonists. And woke came from America to France. Macron himself denounced it, but now it’s terminal. We’re next because our clowns invented it.
Insurrection and maybe even civil war are right around the corner.
And who the heck ever said Roberts is a conservative anyway?
Yep, he’s an institutionalist so he often splits the difference between Heaven and Hell. He’s finding out Hell doesn’t compromise.
Guess we get alla and not yahweh…
Agreed! Seeing as how roberts seems to justify voting with the liberal block the majority of the time!
Estovir, YOU are the troll!!
Anyone who keeps changing names to ensure they get the last word in every debate is obviously acting in bad faith. What’s more, it’s difficult to grasp why you’re a constant presence here.
So when you complain about ‘the trolls’, one just has to ask, “What the hell are YOU..??”
LOL! I don’t know if you meant for me to laugh today but thank you anyway.
Why do you use the term “liberal”. They are totalitarianism thugs. They are intolerant illiberal ignoramuses. They are dangerous and evil
Oink, oink, Upstate
If they did this in front of an abortion den they would be locked up forever. Priorities.
Trump’s childish mudslinging only backfires to those who see it for what it is.
By slinging mud, he inadvertently slings mud at himself as someone who slings mud.
How is slinging mud at political opponents supposed to improve the lives of the people?
The targets of the mudslinging might actually have better answers and solutions for the issues of the people, solutions
that they would be deprived of if the mudslinging tactics are allowed to work.
Now we can see why GenZ is so upset! Being the failures to launch in life, then Gen Alpha shows them up on how to be successes in life at the tender age of 14!
Gen Alpha kids are earning money. Here’s how parents can help them save and invest
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/03/investing-for-kids-accounts.html
Why not demonstrate your loyalty to Trump by going to Iran to fight? I’m sure he’ll appreciate it. He might even buy you a Big Mac.
Why didn’t you show your loyalty to Obozo and the brain dead Potato Biden by going to Ukraine and fighting?
There is you answer.
It’s not my argument. His own argument was used against him.
Oh! NO! Annony is all upset he is a failure to launch, and a 14 year old, Gen Alpha girl has more money than he does!
And how did she do it? Why, her own initiative, willingness to work, and Capitalism!
So, while he sit in his mommy and daddy’s basement, on the internet all day, everyday, making useless comments, or about how great socialism is, here we have Gen Alpha demonstrating how they are going to use Capitalism to make sure they do not wind up like Gen Z, failure to launch annony!
Thank you annony for being the inspiration of what Gen Alpha does NOT want to be, a failure to launch! Why dont you ask your mommy to make you a Hot Pocket? You deserve it for all that inspiration!
Note, it is not lost on me the Z, in Gen Z is the very last letter in the alphabet. And Gen Alpha is, well, the Alpha in a pack whereas Gen Z annony is . . . not.
Oh, I am just a few years past the age of re-enlistment. But on my DD214, under Honorable conditions, I have a favorable rating for re-enlistment.
That ^^ was me. Not sure what happened there. WP server must of had a hic-cup.
OT, very interesting, Red states rate high on parental rights and DEI while blue states rank lower
Director of Government Affairs at Defending Education Dr. Terry Stoops told The Center Square: “If your state is at the top of Defending Education’s rankings, congratulations! You live in a state with public school policies that prioritize sound academics over shameless antics.”
“If your state is at the bottom, then your elected officials have sacrificed educational excellence at the altar of social justice,” Stoops said.
“For parents in bottom-feeder states who value rigor over ridiculousness, the choice is either fight or flight,” Stoops said.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_c21286fa-83a5-4b46-86f5-20dca6ccb1a9.html?a
#. Their home addresses should be unknown. List the court for mail. No access IRS.
anonymoose
Pt points out the left leaning justices aren’t attacked.
It’s coercion and degradation.
The problem can be resolved if We The People decide to resolve it. If these lunatics show up with their invasive behavior, then we show up and disperse them using whatever means we see fit. The process is as old as time. We The People didn’t set the rules. The Left did. Cities burned in “mostly peaceful” protests. People died. Laws went unenforced and the intent of the First Amendment was twisted into something it was never intended to be by black robed jurists playing God from their thrones. The Left, with its mantra of civil disobedience, insistence on forcing its own agenda on everyone, no matter their religious, philosophical or political beliefs and opinions, created a social pressure cooker fueled by social apathy, media support and academic and judicial activism. We all know what happens when a pressure cooker is left untended over a roaring fire. We shouldn’t expect that our societal pressures to result in less. The pressure is at a critical point. Don’t expect less than sheer tragedy.
Isn’t it great to live in a country where you can’t be thrown into a dungeon
for exposing the truth about the President?
In terms of constitutional rights and freedoms, America was already great.
By punishing entertainers and journalists in the manner of a dictator, Trump made it worse.
Ummmm, the only people that I am aware of that were completely deprived of their Constitutional rights are those Patriots that were protesting the J6. Thrown into a gulag, deprived of the right to due process, deprived of representation, held for years without recourse. All for peaceful protest of a Stolen or rigged or compromised election.
That was done through Biden, Comey, Merrick Garland and his Biden regime of Storm Troopers. Perhaps we should start protesting at those criminals homes?!
If they couldn’t do the time, then they shouldn’t have committed the crime.
The only crimes that day were by the FBI and capitol police.
A Ham Sandwich was in the next cell Baretta…
The only people thrown in a dungeon and killed where conservatives in a government entrapment operation by Nancy Pelosi.
The only people censored where conservatives by the Biden administration working with big tech and his department of misinformation (ministry of truth). Name one person Trump shut up? None, he just gave his opinion which he had every right to do. He also sued liars and won which is perfectly legal.
Name one constitutional freedom Trump has taken away from any US citizen? You can’t because there aren’t any.
You are a liar.
Former NYTimes executive editor Joseph Lelyveld for many years spent the month of August at his seaside camp farther down the Maine coast, where I was a neighbor. Although predominantly politically conservative, no one in the small lobster-fishing village ever protested his presence. In contrast to the actions of Roberts’ neighbors, and the views of many of the Times commenters, Lelyveld and his family’s privacy was respected without question.
Jonathan does a masterful job unpacking why rage ain’t the way to keep Ben Franklin’s Republic. The worst is when the doers damn well know that. That’s fake rage. That is the bunch that does understand that you don’t take your half of the road out of the middle. And do it anyway. Specifically, they know that the same Chief Justice Roberts held with them on the Affordable Care Act in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius that the coverage mandate penalty was a tax within Article l taxing power. When I read the decision I saw immediately what our Supreme Court of Texas has stated my whole practice career. The Court will uphold the provision of a statute on any valid legal basis, even if not raised by the parties. That is a direct co- equal branch salute. I think there are fellow citizens in the rage camp that can be moved away from it by better speech. In a conversation I would hope to capture the idea you get hearing “do not put valve grinding compound in your gas tank. It will eat your engine.”
“Jonathan” does a masterful job of pointing rage toward Democrats and “the left” for behavior his friends engage in at least equally. I can point to examples of rage on the right which he and his friends at Fox liken to vacationing tourists. AT least every other article “Jonathan” writes, tells those here who to be enraged with, and judging by the comments, they willingly comply.
You could not be more wrong.
The good professor is not friends with people like that. They are not liberals. They are illiberals. Big difference.
Reading the comments, those of us not afflicted with TDS are not enraged at all. Most of the time, we look or read what these people are doing, and they do it in public for all to see, and ask, “Who thought that was a good idea?”
Pointing out some of the crazy and even stupid those illiberals say or do, that is not rage. That is us asking, “What the heck is wrong with these people?” Or, “Did they study history?”
I have said it more than a few times before, traditional, normal and sane Democrats, you need to get the loonies out of your party and take your party back to its roots.
Hard to say who Turley is friends with, it’s easy to say who he works and associates with, and how he constantly misleads his audience on the issues. You are misrepresenting the overall nature of the comments found at this site, where Turley himself is smart enough to never engage.
“The protesters are mentally ill. They need psychiatric treatment, and in many cases, exorcism. Relatedly, they lack any understanding of reality. Every asserted basis for their displeasure is the exact opposite of reality. They are psychotic cells in the liberal hive mind. On top of all that, they are the most unhappy, miserable, repulsive creatures in American history. And their actions are counterproductive. Their absurdity will only push the targets of their irrational rage to the right.”
“Why do you use the term “liberal”. They are totalitarianism thugs. They are intolerant illiberal ignoramuses. They are dangerous and evil”
“The problem can be resolved if We The People decide to resolve it. If these lunatics show up with their invasive behavior, then we show up and disperse them using whatever means we see fit.”
“This is not just protesting and you know it you insincere leftist thug.”
Did the 1st Amendment guarantee the right to participate in the unpeaceful events of January 6?
Ask the Capitol Police as they were the ones that turned peaceful assembly into a riot.
We need to start “Broken Windows” policing of these creeps. Inspect the boats for licensing, throwing dolls is littering. Harassing ICE during arrests is interfering.
You can’t phart in America without breaking some law or ordinance. Use it.
One person’s “Broken Windows” policing is another person’s Enabling Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933