Roberts richly deserved the disruption in Maine

Red marks the town of St. George, in Midcoast, Maine. Hupper Island is off the village of Port Clyde in St. George.

Adapted from an item in Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

Some angry people in Maine, some summer people and some year-rounders, disrupted U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts’s annual summer vacation  this year on private Hupper Island, mostly a summer place, on the Pine Tree State’s gorgeous coast, where he has a house. The child-of-privilege and genial right winger had to put up with protestors by land and water holding up signs denouncing him and the court  that he leads for assorted controversial rulings. I don’t necessarily agree with all the sign wavers, but one ruling by the court – which Roberts wrote -- was so dangerous for America that Roberts richly deserved the protests.

I’m referring to the ruling, in a legally unprecedented (and you could say treasonous) 6-3 decision  by the GOP-run high court that former presidents effectively have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for what they do as president – what a go-ahead for Trump, a vicious and psychotic convicted criminal, to engage in more crimes. No wonder many Mainers want Roberts to stop vacationing near them.  Maybe Roberts should look for a place on the South Carolina coast – it’s not as spectacular as Maine but is politically friendly to the likes of Roberts,  not to mention warmer.

Conflict of interest? Nah….Jane Sullivan Roberts, wife of the chief justice, has made more than $10 million working as a legal recruiter for law firms doing business before the Supreme Court.  At least  that’s more seemly than the brazenly corrupt  Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas taking vast gifts from  billionaire far-right Republican campaign donors.