She 'knows how to leverage power': Internet cracks up at 'fastball' Elizabeth Warren pitched Roberts

[TheBlackAdder]

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Senator Warren dropped a question right on Chief Justice Robert's lap.

Elie Mystal
@ElieNYC
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@ewarren 's question is, uhh, basically: Doesn't the Chief Justice's refusal to force the Republicans to stop lying reflect poorly on the chief justice.

Roberts had to read it. Lolol.

Also, he's SO nuking Medicare for All.


Bigly Nasty
@GeeJustG
Replying to @ElieNYC and @ewarren
Damn, the look on his face after he read it!

Link to tweet

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Dante Atkins
@DanteAtkins
Warren knows how to leverage power. She knows that Roberts cares most about his legacy as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. And she is laying down a marker that this trial will define him. Brilliant.

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Andrea Mitchell
@mitchellreports
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.@ewarren tosses a verbal grenade into #ImpeachmentTrial by submitting question for #ChiefJusticeRoberts to read out loud: does trial presided over by Chief Justice without witnesses further undermine public confidence in institutions like the Supreme Courts (awkward)

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/she-knows-how-to-leverage-power-internet-cracks-up-at-fastball-elizabeth-warren-pitched-roberts-on-his-reputation/

Wow!

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Good for her!

[chia]

2. Elizabeth Warren FTW.

That made my day.

[msongs]

3. sounds like she is staying awake for the trial lol nt

[Blue_true]

10. Unlike somebody, who won't be named. nt

[malaise]

4. It was brilliant

and so was Schiff's response

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Oh, that was where he said it wasn't CJ's fault, but his party's fault?

[malaise]

8. Yep

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Schiff is proving that the US Senate is no longer the world's greatest deliberative body.

[malaise]

11. We were talking about that on our walk this morning

That and their complete contempt for both the Constitution and the rule of law.

[Tweedy]

43. We don't yet know

All of the president's lying, incompetent lawyers clearly have no respect for any part of truth, justice and the American way. The rot clearly comes down from their boss.

A few Senators have behaved unbelievably badly (looking at you Senators Paul and Blackburn). A few have been boors, nincompoops and hypocrites (ahem, Senators Ernst, Cruz, Cronyn and Barrasso).

Senators McSally and Loeffler have gone full Jim Jordon. Senator Gardner is hiding in a closet

& assuredly if John McCain's spirit is restless, he is haunting Senator Graham

Yet, the Senate as a whole has not spoken definitively yet. Still living in hope that this great experiment we call America is lodged in enough GOP heads that we get a fair trial.

It truly is the very least we can ask.

[Scotch-Irish]

52. Dream on, Tweedy. The republicans have been financed by the russians, and they're

convinced the money will buy them love.

[lagomorph777]

64. Russiapublicans believe that Putin will save them from the fury of the American electorate.

Boy are they fucking wrong.

[saidsimplesimon]

65. Thanks Tweedy,

The Rot is the stinking fish in our WH and those who fail to stand against tyranny.

[ancianita]

23. They're the world's greatest deliverative body.

[blm]

29. ✔️

[erronis]

26. I think that there are some senators who want to be open-minded, but no (r)epuglicons

the response title didn't leave me room to call out one of the worst snakes, Rand Paul (snake).

[pangaia]

32. I missed that.

TAG TEAM !!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD COP BAD COP !!!

[Tweedy]

45. Absolutely

Senator Warren showed him the fat ball
& Representative Schiff hit it out of the ballpark!

[Hassler]

5. I'm leaning towards her.

[sheshe2]

7. I love my Senator!

Go Elizabeth!

[progressoid]

12. EW FTW!

[Glimmer of Hope]

13. I LOVE it.

She has a good point.

[democrank]

14. BAM!

Go Elizabeth!

[B Stieg]

15. Keep going, EWAR!

[C_U_L8R]

16. Question to Presidents team: when did you stop beating your dog?

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[Kurt V.]

17. it was beautiful.

[MLAA]

18. Is it just me or did Chief Justice look watery eyed as he finished reading the question

He looked sad rather than republican angry

[Talitha]

19. It looked like he was giving someone the stink-eye afterwards.

Is Senator Warren sitting in that direction?

[PandoraAwakened]

40. Yes, she is. I'll bet she locked eyes with him too and won the staredown!

The look on his face as he read the question was, indeed, priceless!

You go, girl!!

[Polybius]

55. It's certainly ballsy

Can Roberts throw someone out for disrespect like any judge can in a regular courtroom?

[erlewyne]

20. Warren has been a favorite of mine because she is so well prepared,

Tonight I caught Klobuchar with Ari Melber and she so impressed me.
And I like Bernie. Warren is now on the same level. I have no idea who I
am going to vote for. I can't vote until March. In November I am not voting
G.O.P.

If Bernie keeps the momentum I like it.

I like Klobucher, she thinks like I do.

Warren really scored today!

[crickets]

21. Way to lay on the line, EW. Good job! nt

[ehrnst]

22. Liz showed her stuff! (nt)

[Leith]

24. Well, it was about time SOMEbody said it

It's good that she did.

[Ohioboy]

25. It's a good question

I'm going to go look for the responses.

[paleotn]

27. The truth hurts.

Poor little enabler. I have not sympathy for him.

[Ohioboy]

28. It's a question that Roberts should have already asked himself several times now

He should be feeling shame if he hasn't.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

30. Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor.

GODDAM.

She didn't "drop a question," she dropped the hammer !!

And the look on his face will be frozen forever in video.

DAMN !!!!!

[lastlib]

35. Not a hammer, a grenade!

And CJ Roberts, at the end of his reading, thought, "DAMN, I gotta throw myself on THAT???"

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LOVE it when the RW basturds get to feel the burn!

[HuskyOffset]

56. No, it was a hammer

Specifically, it was this hammer:

[emmaverybo]

31. Magnificent.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

33. Love her!!

[SergeStorms]

34. I didn't hear anything about lying in the question.

Just to be clear, there was no question about republican lying, just republicans' refusal to allow witnesses, and the CJ's presiding over a (pretty much) kangaroo court. Of course the republicans are lying constantly, but that wasn't part of her question.

That being said, hooray for Senator Warren's question as written!

[EveHammond13]

36. he looked like he wanted to vomit

[gristy]

37. Wow. That was quite the tight-lipped expression at the end there

And coupled with eyes focusing in the distance it looks like. That is, not on anything in the room.

[Ferrets are Cool]

39. LOVE IT!!

[Kitchari]

41. Kudos, Liz!

She crafted the question so that Roberts was surprised in the middle of reading it

[Laura PourMeADrink]

42. Link not working. Tons of words, but not what she actually said?

[Tweedy]

46. No

The Chief Justice rightly refused to read a question from Senator Paul that purported to out the whistleblower, here.

[Tweedy]

50. 😂

[Polybius]

53. I agree, we're alone on this in here it seems

She's lucky he didn't explode.

[WyattKansas]

67. Roberts didn't get pissed, because he knew the question nailed it.

Even for him, it must be appalling for him to sit there and listen to the complete bullshit tRUMP's lawyers and republicans keep whining about. After all, even the republicans all know that tRUMP is a despicable tyrant and cannot be trusted.

[jcgoldie]

47. Holy shit Liz!

Ya burnt!

[calimary]

48. Ouch!!!

[flibbitygiblets]

51. Why do you keep punching yourself in the face, Justice Roberts?

[Polybius]

54. Thankfully, this didn't backfire

He could have gotten mad and thrown her out, but thankfully he didn't. I personally believe that you get more flies with honey than vinegar.

[LudwigPastorius]

57. She's just publicly reminding Roberts...

that his legacy hangs in the balance should he be needed to cast the tie-breaking vote on whether to hear from witnesses.

Somebody had to do it, and it further enforced my view that Elizabeth Warren deserves to be the Democratic nominee for president.

[mvd]

58. I've always been a Bernie guy, but I just love Warren's toughness and intelligence

I wasn’t surprised at all that the question was from her.

[SunSeeker]

59. Thank you Elizabeth!

[Always Randy]

60. "Nevertheless, She Persisted." ..

[RVN VET71]

61. It was the final nail in the coffin of his legacy

Warren understood that she was not going to move Roberts to righteous action by having him ask the question. Roberts is a tool of the RW, plain and simple. That's Ms Warren's message to him. She's letting him know that his legacy as a jurist, as a Chief Justice, as a man, has been sealed forever by his obvious refusal to take action against the Republican kangaroos.

No one in either party at this point doubts the outcome of the trial McConnell has rigged. Roberts had an opportunity to stand up for justice and the rule of law. He chose instead to act the role of a passive note reader, a substitute teacher afraid to react to the misbehavior of the Republican half of the class as they and their defense counsel throw spit balls at the Democrats.

[Nitram]

62. Good question. How did he answer it?

[soldierant]

71. It wasn't addressed to him, but to the House Managers.

Adam Schiff answered it and basically said (I paraphrase - don't accuse me of making it up - oh, wait, no Trumps here, never mind) "Don't blame the Chief Justice, it's not his fault that the Senate Republicans are corrupt to the core."

(Although it is partly the Chief Justice's fault, due to decisions like Citizens United and the VRA and partisan gerrymandering - but Schiff probably also catches more flies with hone than with vinegar.)

[Nitram]

73. I'm not sure the Chief Justice couldn't play a more important role if he chose to do so.

He's not even trying to be an umpire calling balls and strikes.

[soldierant]

74. He probably could, except that

anything he says or orders, the Senate can overrule with a simple majority vote.

I'd love to see him try harder anyway. I'd love for some of those brazen votes against him to go on record.

[Nitram]

75. Exactly! At least he'd be on record upholding the Constitution.

[lagomorph777]

63. Will he actually read it out loud?

[soldierant]

72. He did. There's video.

[lagomorph777]

77. Awwwwesome!

[coti]

66. WOW.

Holy shit.

Talk about speaking truth to power.

[SWBTATTReg]

68. And it really does. Where's the impartiality? Where's the sane voice saying stop, don't do this?

No voice of reason, nothing. How pathetic. I've lost a lot of respect for the 'rule of law' now, being that it's being so flagrantly violated and flaunted. As an American (as we all are mostly), this is disgusting and 'unAmerican'.

[Rider3]

69. Loved this!

She's reminding him of the legacy he'll be leaving for himself AND the Supreme Court. If nothing else happens, I hope this haunts Roberts for the rest of his life.

[Kid Berwyn]

70. Geraldoed.

Warren exposed the hypocrisy.

[riversedge]

76. you go gal!!!