It’s true! The U.S. Supreme Court is definitely not Donald Trump’s personal gumball machine! In a small but genuine triumph for judicial modesty and common sense, only four of the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court rolled over for His Donaldness, while the other, well, stood firm with the four Democrats on the Court,…
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Everyone must obey the law, says US Chief Justice John Roberts. Except Donald Trump, of course.
Yes, US Chief Justice John Roberts, who makes US Chief Justice Roger “Dred Scott Decision” Taney look like John Marshall (pretty much) has addressed a “warning” to Donald Trump (well, pretty much) not to defy the federal courts in his 2024 Year End Report on the Federal Judiciary, to wit: Every Administration suffers defeats in…
Mind at the end of its tether, more or less.
If, in January 2015, someone had asked me if I could imagine that, in November 2024, the American people would be ready to re-elect as president a man who, on losing his first attempt at re-election in 2020 had summoned a mob on January 6, 2021 with the express purpose of pressuring the U.S. Congress…
Amy Coney Barrett to her sisters: “Ladies, ladies, ladies! You shouldn’t call Chief Justice John Roberts a two-bit political whore just because he is one! That’s not polite!”
Well, indeed it isn’t, but it is quite apropos factually, which is sometimes supposed to count in legal matters. Both Mark Joseph Stern at Slate, The Supreme Court’s “Unanimous” Trump Ballot Ruling Is Actually a 5–4 Disaster, and Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy, Supreme Court rules for Trump in Section 3 disqualification case, are…
Shorter Roberts Supreme Court: Let’s Make A Deal!
Originalist sin, anyone? The Volokh Conspiracy’s David Post has the scoop: Case or Controversy Requirement? What Case or Controversy Requirement?. As Dave points out, in a post that is, I would say, “thorough”, two of the many “big” decisions handed down by the Supreme Court in its recently concluded “summer session”—Moore v. Harper, shooting down…