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Chief Justice John Roberts outside the University of Malta | AP Photo

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An Associated Press photographer finds Chief Justice John Roberts in Malta — where he’s spending some time after the monumental health care case that saw him side with the four liberal justices in upholding President Obama’s health care law.

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6 Responses to “Does anyone know, why Roberts is in Malta?”

1. Pete Johnson
   July 6th, 2012 @ 9:47 am

   To teach a two-week class at the university.

2. Sean
   July 6th, 2012 @ 2:01 pm

   The campus is also home to the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI)

3. Patrick Oh
   July 7th, 2012 @ 6:49 am

   Isn’t this traitor, John Roberts, already a Knight of Columbus? Perhaps he is becoming a Knight of Malta (like Rick Santorum) and will swear an oath of obedience to their King, Fra’ Matthew Festing.

   The supreme head of the Order is the Grand Master, who is elected for life by the Council Complete of State, holds the precedence of a cardinal of the Church since 1630, and received the rank of Reichsfürst (Prince of the Holy Roman Empire) in 1607. Fra’ Matthew Festing was elected by the Council as 79th Grand Master on 11 March 2008, succeeding Fra’ Andrew Bertie, who was Grand Master until his death on 7 February 2008.

4. Yoel
   July 7th, 2012 @ 6:13 pm

   Roberts is a member of “Order of Malta”, a political, religious, and fraternal organization whose members claim sovereign international status. The order issues it’s own passports, engages in official diplomatic relations with 104 nations, etc. He was required to take a solemn oath of loyalty to the order, therefore Roberts should not be allowed to hold office in the United States ~ https://www.orderofmalta.int/?lang=en ~

5. rosemary
   July 8th, 2012 @ 7:50 am

   Roberts himself is breaking the law by taking an oath to the Order of Malta. It is stated in the missing 13th Amendment which is not printed in modern versions of the Constitution. He should never have been sworn in. Again our Congress has failed us by not thoroughtly vetting judicial appointments. We must have representatives who will protect the constitution.

   The Original Thirteenth Amendment
   Ratified March 12, 1819
   The Founders held an intense disdain and distrust of “Nobility” as a result of a long history, during Colonial times, of abuses and excesses against the Rights of Man and the established Common Law and Constitutions by the “Nobility”, and therefore placed in the new Constitution two injunctions against acceptance of Titles of Nobility or Honor or emoluments from external sources. The Revolutionary War for Independence was primarily waged to eliminate these abuses and excesses of the “Nobility” and the “Monied Classes” from the life of the Nation, recognizing the Equality of all men.
   As there was no penalty attached to a title of nobility or honor in the Constitution as originally ratified, the Original Thirteenth Amendment was proposed in December of 1809 to institute penalty for accepting or using a “Title of Nobility or Honor” to set oneself apart from, or superior to, or possessing of any special privileges or immunities not available to any other citizen of the United States, and to eliminate the widespread use of “emoluments” as bribery and graft of the legislatures and judiciary used to further the causes and positions of “Special Interests”. It was an attempt to keep politicians and civil servants “Honest” in their service to the citizens.
   There is more to this.

6. rosemary
   July 8th, 2012 @ 7:53 am

   Roberts himself is breaking the law by taking an oath to the Order of Malta. It is stated in the missing 13th Amendment which is not printed in modern versions of the Constitution. He should never have been sworn in. Again our Congress has failed us by not thoroughtly vetting judicial appointments. We must have representatives who will protect the constitution. The Original Thirteenth Amendment
   Ratified March 12, 1819
   The Founders held an intense disdain and distrust of “Nobility” as a result of a long history, during Colonial times, of abuses and excesses against the Rights of Man and the established Common Law and Constitutions by the “Nobility”, and therefore placed in the new Constitution two injunctions against acceptance of Titles of Nobility or Honor or emoluments from external sources. The Revolutionary War for Independence was primarily waged to eliminate these abuses and excesses of the “Nobility” and the “Monied Classes” from the life of the Nation, recognizing the Equality of all men.
   As there was no penalty attached to a title of nobility or honor in the Constitution as originally ratified, the Original Thirteenth Amendment was proposed in December of 1809 to institute penalty for accepting or using a “Title of Nobility or Honor” to set oneself apart from, or superior to, or possessing of any special privileges or immunities not available to any other citizen of the United States, and to eliminate the widespread use of “emoluments” as bribery and graft of the legislatures and judiciary used to further the causes and positions of “Special Interests”. It was an attempt to keep politicians and civil servants “Honest” in their service to the citizens.

   this is partial but I guess you could all of congress is guilty of accepting bribesand holding titles.

   The Original Thirteenth Amendment
   Ratified March 12, 1819
   The Founders held an intense disdain and distrust of “Nobility” as a result of a long history, during Colonial times, of abuses and excesses against the Rights of Man and the established Common Law and Constitutions by the “Nobility”, and therefore placed in the new Constitution two injunctions against acceptance of Titles of Nobility or Honor or emoluments from external sources. The Revolutionary War for Independence was primarily waged to eliminate these abuses and excesses of the “Nobility” and the “Monied Classes” from the life of the Nation, recognizing the Equality of all men.
   As there was no penalty attached to a title of nobility or honor in the Constitution as originally ratified, the Original Thirteenth Amendment was proposed in December of 1809 to institute penalty for accepting or using a “Title of Nobility or Honor” to set oneself apart from, or superior to, or possessing of any special privileges or immunities not available to any other citizen of the United States, and to eliminate the widespread use of “emoluments” as bribery and graft of the legislatures and judiciary used to further the causes and positions of “Special Interests”. It was an attempt to keep politicians and civil servants “Honest” in their service to the citizens.
   There is more to this.

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