'Hey, John Roberts?' Chief Justice alerted as White House liaison insults his intelligence

A key White House official is insulting Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr., and the nation's top jurist should know, a legal expert said on Saturday.

It all started with the Supreme Court over the weekend temporarily halted the Trump administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century law.

That led one MAGA influencer to write on X, "As usual, Alito and Thomas are the only two Justices you can count on to uphold the integrity of our republic. Replacing them is going to be one of the most important issues of our time."

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Paul Ingrassia, President Trump’s White House Liaison for Department of Homeland Security, followed that up with his own reply:

"Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense, causing irreparable damage to our judicial system. This is why a putatively 'conservative' Supreme Court so often fails to uphold the most basic principles of constitutional governance," he wrote. The Trump admin official concluded with, "The judges in law courts today, including the majority in the nation’s Highest Court, telegraph with these decisions that they have no understanding of law and its proper function and role. President Trump is the first leader who has actually meaningfully attempted to reverse this destructive trajectory, and done so with the gravitas of executive power that will be sure to have a lasting impact for years to come."

Lawfare's Anna Bower, who recently commented on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denying the Trump administration's request over a judge's definition of "facilitate," then alerted Roberts himself.

"Hey, John Roberts?" Bower wrote. "The White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security is saying that you have 'no understanding of law and its proper function and role.'"