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NonilexThe NYT recently reported on the internal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> deliberations, & they paint <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a>, author of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immunity</a> decision, as having turned from a justice known for seeking common ground & minimalist outcomes to one set out to protect the office of the [Trump] presidency at all costs.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurrection</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisWalz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarrisWalz2024</a>

Nonilex“As <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> & his archconservative supermajority have asserted dominance & made it harder for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POTUS</a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/govern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#govern</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElizabethPrelogar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElizabethPrelogar</a> has been there all along: making sure the govt, if it’s going to lose, will at least lose well. Or wielding her oratory skills & legal argumentation to convince, at minimum, 2 members of Roberts’s bloc to rule for her side—or rule in a way the damage to our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laws</a> & institutions is manageable. Or averted for a time.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>

NonilexHow <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> Went Full <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a>A revealing article in The NYT details how the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> put his thumb on the scale for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> to keep him on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ballot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ballot</a> & out of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jail</a>.by ELIE MYSTAL <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-john-roberts-trump-maga/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-john-roberts-trump-maga/</a>

Jorro<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotus</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/johnroberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#johnroberts</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/chiefjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chiefjustice</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trump2020loser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump2020loser</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trump2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump2024</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immunity</a>The depth of corruption that stains everything Trump touches is unfathomable , I just learned about this last night;“ John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, on Feb. 22 issued a memo to his colleagues urging them not only to take up an appeal from former President Donald Trump over his immunity claim, but also to rule in favor of granting him that immunity.”<a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/09/16/leaked-memos-reveal-john-roberts-role-in-shielding-from-prosecution/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.salon.com/2024/09/16/leaked-memos-reveal-john-roberts-role-in-shielding-from-prosecution/</a>

NonilexThat left <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> in control of the outcome. He LINGERED over the choice…. Ultimately, he sided w/the 4 conservatives in an opinion that he wrote but that was issued unsigned. Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmyConeyBarrett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmyConeyBarrett</a> & the 3 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liberals</a> wrote concurrences saying the majority had gone TOO FAR.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiGovernment</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Unlawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unlawful</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extremism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservative</a>

NonilexWhile all 9 justices agreed that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> should remain on state ballots, 4 of the conservatives were pushing to go beyond that & rule that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a>’s prohibition would require congressional action. Such a decision would provide even greater protection for Trump: To prevent him from taking office if he won re-election, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> would have to vote to enforce the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrectionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurrectionist</a> ban.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>’ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservative</a> supermajority has prevailed in many of the most consequential cases in recent years. This time, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> told his colleagues he wanted the decision to be unanimous & unsigned. In any politically charged case, agreement among the justices made the decision more authoritative. He even said he would consult individually w/everyone to discuss what they would accept — a rare step.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corrupt</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a>’s Unsigned Opinion…In Feb, the justices heard arguments on a provocative question. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourteenthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FourteenthAmendment</a>, adopted after the Civil War, contains language barring <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrectionists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurrectionists</a> from holding office. So could <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colorado</a> kick <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> off the ballot in its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republican</a> primary, creating an obstacle for his presidential campaign?<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extremism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a>

Nonilex“It’s a strange, sprawling opinion,” said William Baude, a University of Chicago <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> prof & a fmr clerk to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a>. “It’s hard to tell what exactly it is trying to do.”Others said the ruling was untethered from the law. “It’s certainly not really tied to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a>,” said Stephen R. McAllister, a law prof at University of Kansas & fmr clerk to Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClarenceThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClarenceThomas</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corrupt</a>

NonilexNow <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a>’ opinion is the key doc in a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> drama playing out this autumn, as the judge presiding over the long-delayed trial, Tanya S. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chutkan</a>, parses what the court meant and how to move forward. Legal scholars say her job won’t be easy. Despite the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a>’s reputation as a methodical craftsman, many experts, both conservative & liberal, say he produced a disjointed, tough-to-interpret opinion.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a>

Nonilex…Both <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liberals</a> saw it as an epic win for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>. He & his supporters exulted over the decision, which greatly expanded presidential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immunity</a> & pushed off any trial until well after the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a> —if ever. To <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrats</a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republican</a>-appointed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> justices were brushing away the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/violent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violent</a> Capitol attack & abandoning the core principle that no one is above the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a>, who had long said he wanted to keep the court out of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>, had plunged it deeply in.

NonilexThough the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> often favors consensus, he did not take the opening. As the court split 6 to 3, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatives</a> vs <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liberals</a>, Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sotomayor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sotomayor</a> started work on a 5-alarm dissent warning of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/danger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#danger</a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a>.In his writings on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immunity</a> case, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> seemed confident that his arguments would soar above <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>, persuade the public, & stand the test of time. [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hubris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hubris</a>]<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bias</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corrupt</a>

NonilexThat would have deferred oral arguments until Oct & almost certainly pushed a decision until after the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a>. But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> provided crucial support for hearing the historic case earlier, siding w/the liberals.Then he froze them out. After he circulated his draft opinion in June, Justice Sonia <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Sotomayor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sotomayor</a>, the senior liberal, signaled a willingness to agree on some points in hopes of moderating the opinion….<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a>

NonilexAnother case involved a highly unusual switch. In April, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> assigned Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alito</a> to write a majority opinion saying that prosecutors had gone too far in bringing obstruction charges against some Capitol *rioters* [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurgents</a>]. But in late May, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> took it over.…During the Feb discussions of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immunity</a> case, the most consequential of the 3, some of the *<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservative</a>* justices wanted to schedule it for the next term.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a>

NonilexThis account draws on details from justices’ private memos, documentation of the proceedings & interviews w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> insiders, both conservative & liberal,who spoke on the condition of anonymity because deliberations are supposed to be kept secret. [I thank them for providing evidence of such blatant <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bias</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a>] The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> wrote the majority opinions in all 3 cases, incl an unsigned one in March concluding that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> could not be barred from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#election</a> ballots in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colorado</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> responded by deploying his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authority</a> to STEER RULINGS that BENEFITED <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>, acc/to a NYT examination that uncovered extensive new info about the court’s decision making.[<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JFC</a> that’s it. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DisbandSCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DisbandSCOTUS</a> ]<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiGovernment</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Unlawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unlawful</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extremism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservative</a>

Nonilex“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently” from the appeals court, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnRoberts</a> wrote. In other words: grant <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> greater protection from prosecution.In a momentous trio of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jan6</a> related cases last term, the court found itself more entangled in presidential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> than at any time since the 2000 election, even as it was contending w/its own controversies related to that day.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a> tore into the appellate court opinion greenlighting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s trial, calling it inadequate & poorly reasoned. On one key point, he complained, the lower court judges “failed to grapple w/the most difficult questions altogether.” He wrote not only that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> should take the case — which would stall the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trial</a> — but also HOW the justices should DECIDED it.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extremism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChiefJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChiefJustice</a>’s Feb 22 memo, jump-starting the justices’ formal discussion on whether to hear the case, offered a scathing critique of a lower-court decision & a startling preview of how the high court would later rule, acc/to several people from the court who saw the document.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PartisanCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartisanCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ActivistCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActivistCourt</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illiberalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AntiGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiGovernment</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Unlawful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unlawful</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extremism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservative</a>

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