No one on the Supreme Court has gone further to enable Donald Trump’s extreme exercise of presidential power than the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts.
Roberts upheld the first Trump administration’s “Muslim ban” on the grounds that the president’s national-security role precludes courts from taking account of the bigotry undergirding an immigration order. He remanded a lower court’s enforcement of a congressional subpoena for Trump’s financial information, writing that “without limits on its subpoena powers,” Congress could exert “imperious” control over the executive branch and “aggrandize itself at the President’s expense.” He has come close to giving the president an untrammeled right to fire any officer in the executive branch at will. And he took the lead in inventing a presidential immunity from criminal prosecution that could exempt the president from accountability for even the most corrupt exercises of his official functions.
No salient action after Jan 6th. Vaulting trump to power and trump’s dark and dirty connections (domestic and foreign) were already so well known. Everyone selling out in the highest offices. This grinds my gears.
What a dickhead. History books will spotlight this as a low point in the Supreme Court.
Might also be the endpoint of the Supreme Court
If Biden had any guts he’d have just started a parallel Supreme Court. Forget impeaching them, just stop listenening to them, start a new court. One that doesn’t have six dunderheads.
Yeah yeah yeah, I hear the complaints. “Wull, if Biden did that, what’s stopping Republicans from doing the same?” We are WELL past that point.
He sucks but it isn’t just him that allowed this hellscape and quite honestly, publications like the Atlantic have had a part to play in it themselves.
For real, the Atlantic went full centrist contrarian dipshit years ago but people still treat it like an intelligent publication because of great work they did decades ago under different owners
Is that one man’s name secretly Merrick Garland? The man who had four years to prosecute and didn’t?
If not he should at least be a dishonorable mention.
To be fair, Roberts’ Court would likely have had the ultimate say in what happened to those people, had Garland prosecuted them.
