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.
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.
