It’s Time for the Chief Justice to Resign | The West Wing

"Constitutions a living document"

LOLLLLLLLL

18 year term limits let’s go

"Independent court above party or interests"
HAHAHAHA (Laughs in MAGA)

Nothing should be a lifetime appointment. Dog catcher, Parks and Recreation Director, Supreme Court Justice.

TWW was and will remain my favorite show of Aaron Sorkin’s. One thing he wrote very well is the level of loyalty law clerks have regardless if they are SCOTUS Clerks or if they are local Superior Court Clerks. It is a special bond and undying loyalty that often times can complicate judgement and/or ethics. Every former law clerk of any judge that has been under my wing when they enter private practice have strong pride in their clerkship years and are loyal to a fault. It’s incredible.

I really disliked The West Wing because of Toby and Martin Sheen, the Hollywood writers made them “holier than thou” because they were liberals.

an independent court above party or interests. imagine that.

Why was Matthew Langford Perry not in the subsequent episode where the Chief Justice was actually replaced?

No lifetime appointments

This aged badly in light of the corruption of Clarance Thomas.

Life imitates art.

Someone needs to retire from your secret Supreme Court.

I don't like it when this show ages well

Finished watching all 7 seasons, episode a night, a couple months ago. I think I'll start again, something comforting about watching a political system working with dignity and class, given what's going on in real life.

Not one of the conservative justices are incapacitated so cope harder libs

The West Wing was about a liberal administration and in this episode, they were clearly admonishing conservatives for keeping a mentally incompetent individual in power. But now the shoes on the other foot, so it’s a different story. They kept him as long as they could, but now that they have a replacement, they cast him aside. Of course the replacement is as bad or worse, but she might have a slightly better chance of winning so…

Wow. Even on TV a republican lies like a rug.

This is why term limits

If only this show was real

Who's here for Matthew Perry? This shows what a talented actor he was. The last scene shows the acting within the acting. RIP

This clip is why I'm voting for Trump. This is EXACTLY how liberals think. Having a high-ranking official from the executive branch personally (and publicly) visit a Supreme Court Chief Justice in the hospital to pressure him to resign is a massive, deliberate violation of the Constitution, and completely violates the principle of separation of powers. The Court is a separate, equal institution of government, and contrary to the left's dream, isn't under their control. An independent judiciary is one of the fundamental principles holding this country together. As demonstrated by the left pushing such idiocies as a code of ethics for the court (enforced by Congress) they don't care in the least what happens to the country, as long as they retain power. No way. Ever, and I don't care who Trump sleeps with. Anything is better than this.

lifetime appointments for anything is rediculous, so is political appointments for judges. these people shoulde be independent

Biden?

Knock knock,
Who’s there?








Well it ain’t Mathew Perry now is it?

Just the opposite of the way it is now.

Does the Chief Justice get replace?

Toby Ziegler was always an asshole. And this particular moment just showed him for the partisan hack he really was.

This was such a damn good show, the best show that has ever been made about American politics. I have been interested in national politics since I was 15 during the Vietnam War. This issue never occurred to me until I saw this episode - who discusses resignation with a SCOTUS judge? is it appropriate for the Executive branch to put pressure on elderly judges?

Those vultures are circling in the sky as the United States Supreme Court Chief Judge is in ICU.

Biden?

This is the exact reason why Supreme Court judges should have a term limit. Maybe 9 years with a new appointment every year. Each Justice would serve under at least 2 presidents, or 3 terms.

I wonder if these rooms are really this dark?

Toby is a Sorkin invention.

"The Constitution's a living document..."

Fuck you, Toby.

Richard Schiff did more acting with his eyes than most do with monologues.

I was never really a "Friends" watcher or fan. I thought Matthew Perry was brilliant in his short run on The West Wing.

The biggest tragedy of all is that Matthew Perry wasn’t full cast member. He knocked it out of the park on Studio 60 and would’ve been just as fantastic on The West Wing.

i hope perry's character was fired for that. he lied to his superior and did it because of political beliefs. whatever his beliefs, his loyalty is to the white house he chose to work for. his spiel about judicial independence was just a smoke screen to mask his loyalty to the party and the man personally.

Was Matthew stoned in this episode?

There's a Matthew Perry shaped hole in the world and it won't ever be full, but his moments like this are what make it a little easier.

Mandatory retirement from all government positions at 70

None of this show applies anymore, we crossed over that threshold the moment Bush v Gore was decided.

I love Matthew Perry in this role

I love Matthew Perry in this role. He was so talented.

Rbg vibes lol

The last scene of Ginsburg before she bounced.

And here we are with career politicians who honestly NEED to Go -
Go anywhere & take the young WOKE GANG with you !
Go to another country & let ' US ' rebuild our country.