INFORMATION RELEASE

October 2, 2005

 

MOTION SUBMITTED TO U.S. SUPREME COURT TO DISQUALIFY CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS FROM CASE INVOLVING PRESIDENT BUSH

Only hours after his inauguration, a motion was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court calling for the disqualification of newly appointed Chief Justice John G. Roberts from presiding in the civil case Anthony P. Keyter vs. President George W. Bush, Case Number 05-140. The case, recently presented to the Supreme Court, discloses corruption at high level in the Bush Administration, and the President's involvement therein. Justice Roberts became embroiled in the matter in the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, when he failed to address the issue of crimes filed in the case Keyter vs. Bush, which crimes were presented to him.

Justice Roberts is faced with several dilemmas through an extraordinary confluence of circumstances in the case, unique in the judicial history of the United States Supreme Court. His predicament immediately puts his ethics and his oath to uphold the Constitution to a severe test, viz:

• Whether to heed his fidelity to friendship - or heed the call for justice by an unknown citizen. It is a matter of public record that President Bush has had an association with Justice Roberts for a number of years. On the other hand, the injured party in the case is a member of the public anonymous to Justice Roberts.

• Whether to serve the President, the master who only recently appointed him, but who is in violation of the law - or whether to serve the cause of state and administer the law. Justice Roberts is confronted with the dilemma of which master to serve: a) President George W. Bush - the master who thrust his judicial destiny into global prominence; or b) The state - to which he owes an obligation, under oath, to deal with that master in terms of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the statutes on misprision of felony and obstruction of justice.

• Whether to protect the President who appointed him, but who has suppressed the rights of a citizen in violation of the Constitution - or whether to support the Constitution, and defend the rights of a citizen to hold property; and the rights to protection of the laws.

• Whether to protect the powerful or the weak. The Chief Justice has to deliberate a case pitting the power of the United States President against the common man whose only resource is the protection offered by the Constitution.

These matters present Justice Roberts with an untenable conflict of interest between his loyalty to President Bush and his duty to the Constitution. Fair and impartial judgment in this case is impossible.

Furthermore, Justice Roberts lacks legal standing to preside over the case Keyter vs. Bush. The Constitution demands that a justice be in good behaviour to serve the Supreme Court. Justice Roberts lacks that standing as a result of malfeasant conduct in the Court of Appeals - which conduct has been referred to the F.B.I. The law also debars a justice from hearing an appeal on issues already determined by him. An Affidavit of Prejudice has been filed in the Supreme Court for his recusal.

These dilemmas will sorely test the integrity of Chief Justice Roberts.

A copy of the Motion to Disqualify Justice Roberts from the above case in the Supreme Court will be forwarded upon request. Further information may also be obtained directly from the court records.

Statement released by:

Anthony P. Keyter