James Carville loses it on 'clown' John Roberts in vulgar takedown

Political strategist James Carville didn't pull any punches when weighing in on the Supreme Court's latest decision on redistricting and targeted one justice in particular.

"Way to go, John Roberts. What a [expletive] clown," Carville said on the Politicon podcast this week. "What a partisan hack clown."

Carville reacted harshly to the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision that weakened protections in the Voting Rights Act against racial gerrymandering and described the whole bench as "corrupt" in a curse-filled tirade.

"There is no reason, none, that you should have any respect or any admiration for this pack of people who take money from anybody, don't report anything, are the only nine people in the entire [expletive] federal government that operate under no ethic rule," he fumed. "A private in the army is subject to more ethics regulations than the nine justices on the Supreme Court."

He warned that "you have to obey because they'll throw your ass in jail, but you don't have to respect them."

He had more ire reserved for the conservative justices in particular, calling Justice Samuel Alito "a political hack" and reminding people about his luxury fishing vacations.

"These sons of [expletive] were so political, so happy to help the Republican Party any way they could," Carville said. "They wrote a convoluted decision that legal scholars are still trying to wander through to think what the [expletive] was the rationale for this."