>> Mike Pence is a vampire. And as a vampire,
he's not typically allowed in churches. But
if it's a TV set that just looks like a church,
apparently that's okay. And that's what happened
on the Christian Broadcasting Network recently.
As Trump continues to drop in the polls and
alienate Christian voters with satanic behavior,
Pence is tasked with appealing to voters who
also call their wives mother.
His tactic is to pick a fight with the conservative
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. And immediately
this interview goes right off the rails. Take
a look.
>> Are you scratching your head a little bit
on John Roberts? I mean,we're not gonna call
him David Souter at this point, but conservatives
have a track record of having some problems
with Supreme Court justices you thought were
gonna be a reliable vote.
Or when I say reliable vote, I'm just talking
about to adhere to conservative principles.
>> The reason I wanna stop right there is
because he gave away the game already. At
the beginning, he's like, he's not a reliable
vote. No, I just said the thing you're not
supposed to say which is a Republican president
appointed him.
And he should vote with what the Republican
president wants, no matter what, which goes
completely counter to the reason that we put
robes around our disembodied heads of justice,
the Supreme Court so that they're not even
people. They're just thinking things that
look at the constitution and theoretically
do it.
So that's I just wanted to make that point
really quick, what softball questions this
makeup thing, the lead political analyst for
the Christian Broadcasting Network had to
say. But here's how Pence answers the question.
>> Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment
to conservatives, whether it be the Obamacare
decision or whether it be a spate of recent
decisions all the way through Calvary Chapel.
It's just, it's a reminder and I think several
cases out of the Supreme Court are a reminder
of just how important this election is for
the future of the Supreme Court. We remember
the issue back in 2016, which I believe loomed
large in voters decisions between Hillary
Clinton and the man who would become president
of the United States.
And some people thought that it wouldn't be
as big an issue these days. But I think that's
all changed. The recent decision and again,
a narrow Supreme Court decision striking down
a Louisiana pro life law that only said that
doctors working in abortion clinics would
have to have admitting privileges at local
hospitals.
That's a very modest restriction on abortion
providers, but a narrow majority in the Supreme
Court still said it was unacceptable. And
I think it's been a wake up call for pro life
voters around the country who understand.
In a very real sense, the destiny of the Supreme
Court is on the ballot in 2020.
>> I have some stats about why he's upset
and all the specific cases but he did mention
some of them. Benjamin, what's your reaction?
>> Mike Pence is probably the only person
I would think would be worse for America than
Donald Trump. He carries the same amount of
ignorance and weaponized stupidity.
But he also carries a level of evangelical
fervor that is dangerous that would most certainly
strip away the rights of women to vote. And
the fact that he just concedes, right, the
host set it up obviously that way. But he
conceeds that they have a full expectation
that a Republican appointee is going to abide
by what the Republican Party wants versus
what the Constitution says as many of them
try to claim that they are about the originalist.
They are originalist, and they are about the
original interpretation of the Constitution,
that it's not a living document. They are
admitting here that they don't really care
about that as much as they care about ideology.
>> Yeah, their originalist interpretation
argument has gone out the window many times,
went out the window yesterday or two days
ago when we reported that they're just not
gonna do what the Constitution says about-
>> Right.
>> The census. We're just not gonna count
people. We're just gonna count essentially
more or less what the President tells us to
count. That's gone, that happens all the time.
To go through some of, I do wanna talk about
his mentioning of the Louisiana abortion law
but we'll do that after I read these cases
that he's talking about.
Robert sided with the court's four liberal
justices in the Louisiana abortion case and
the Nevada church case. He also was part of
a 5-4 majority that blocked Trump's attempts
to rescind DACA, and he sided with the 6-3
majority in ruling that workers can't be fired
for being gay or transgender.
Those are things that are very much what Pence
is designed in a vampire lab to do. And what
you saw in that video is the closest you'll
ever see to him yelling. That's him when he's
shopping, when he's yelling, when he's passionately
making love, that is what he looks like all
the time, the eye furrow and with a straight
face.
And he sounds like all the politicians that
Trump annihilated during all of the debates
as he's trying to look at you with that furrowed
brow and just say it was the smallest of restrictions
on abortion and meeting privileges to hospitals
that aren't even remotely there. Even though
if someone has to go to a hospital, Ronald
Reagan made it so no matter who they are and
what country they were born in, they have
to take them at the hospital.
>> Right.
>> That's a law set in stone. And that is
something that he will not cop to. He is so
expert at exactly delivering with the straight
face and that's why he's on a set that looks
like a church. He is acting and pretending
that people are earnestly saying that it is
a small restriction that you have admitting
privileges.
No, it is a calculated restriction to make
it so it is impossible for those people to,
and the same way with the width of the hallways.
All these arbitrary things that they try until,
and buy themselves time so that they get struck
down in court. It's so stupid.
The decisions have drawn outrage from conservative
lawmakers, but Pence's criticism marked the
first time he or President Trump have explicitly
called out Roberts' rulings. Roberts also
presided over the Trump Senate impeachment,
which ultimately ended with the president's
acquittal. Those might be things that he's
mad about, but Roberts has sided with Trump
in the past.
He was part of a majority that upheld the
administration's ability to detain immigrants
with criminal records at any time, upheld
Trump's use of military funds for wall construction
on the southern border and upheld the president's
travel ban early in his first term. Why is
he specifically going after Roberts?
>> Because they're totalitarian, right? If
we just cut to it, they don't want anyone
to waiver any measure of degree. Even the
way that John Roberts wrote about the Louisiana
case, it wasn't a clear cut victory for a
woman's right to choose, right? It was a technical
victory.
And so even though he didn't give them an
outright right to choose victory, that's not
good enough, right? What people like Vice
President Mike Pence want is complete and
total submission to the conservative orthodoxy.
And so he's trying to give him a chin check
to see if he's gonna get back in line.
But I think this might have a backfiring effect
because if there's one thing that John Roberts
is more concerned about than even the Constitution,
it's his legacy. And it's the respect that
the institution has while he's there. And
so he's going to have to assert the separation
of powers that he has as the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court.
>> That's it, I agree with you completely.
He has that extra level where he's like, all
right, I'm not gonna shut down Obamacare.
I'm not gonna shut it down. It was a landmark
legislation, but that might just be me reading
tea leaves. I don't know, I'm not a constitutional
scholar.
