I have a shocking secret to tell you: John Roberts is white. Not just any white judge but he's also married to a woman who is white. And I've heard that he even has white kids. And, to top it all off? Almost every single person he works with is white. I'm not even joking. This was all revealed in a press conference today. Reporters breathlessly asked follow up questions about his whiteness and how it affects his judgment.
Obviously, being surrounded by so much whiteness, his judgment is a little questionable. Can someone realistically be white and be able to decide cases on white issues fairly? I'm not so sure. There are cases involving white issues that definitely might have gone differently had the Chief Justice not been so openly white.
The talk to a handful of reporters was Walker'sRoberts' first public comments to reporters about presiding over the lawsuit challenging to Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in Californiain Parents Involved, which challenged desegregation. WalkerRoberts struck down the banracial diversity program as unconstitutional, and the case is currently on appeal.
It was also the first time WalkerRoberts publicly acknowledged his own sexual orientationwhiteness.
Obviously this is a huge problem. We can't have white judges deciding these types of cases. More people should be decrying the obvious bias in this case. But I guess no one would dare criticize someone for bias over something like that, right? Right?
The National Organization for Marriage and some others had called for Walker's recusal.
Oh, I see. A Reagan appointee who has ruled against gays in the past overturns one antigay law and he's biased and should recuse himself from the case just based on the suspicion that he might be gay. But a nine member Supreme Court, of which eight members were white at the time, rules on a case involving desegregation, the majority votes to REsegregate, citing Brown v. Board as precedent to do so, and that's totally fine.
Interesting media we have.