The Supreme Court on Friday handed a significant victory to Donald Trump - and future American presidents - when curbing lower courts’ power to block executive orders.
Trump was beaming as he addressed reporters at the White House briefing room podium, calling it a “big, amazing decision” which the administration is “very happy about”.
The court’s decision not only impacts Trump’s birthright citizenship order, but also emboldens him to enact many of his other policy actions that have been temporarily thwarted by similar injunctions.
I’m genuinely baffled at all of the hand-wringing about his legacy that Roberts is doing.
Like, dude: the decisions you and your Tribunal of Six are handing down are taking a fucking sledgehammer to any semblance of judicial integrity and independence that remained. People think you’re irredeemably biased because it is nakedly obvious that you’re irredeemably biased. Your legacy is going to be “one of the people who played a central role in the destruction of the first American Republic. You were one of the central characters who failed to keep the republic. You will get no quarter or adulation from historians, decades from now. It’s entirely likely you’re ushering in an era of American balkanization, and who the fuck knows how that’s gonna pan out, because we store a LOT of our nukes in the poor as fuck red states. We are entering an era of chaos, and you were one of the primary players who got us here. There is no redemption for you or your ilk. You will be the “bad guy” in the history books. You are hated. You will be reviled throughout history. You will be a counterexample. Your progeny will be shamed for generations, and you deserve it.
They’re getting paid to do this job. We think it’s a different job than that are actually getting paid to do.
I mean, I know that. I’m just pointing out that it’s hilarious in the extreme when Roberts whinges about how “nobody respects the court” and professes to care so deeply about his and the court’s legacy, when it’s blindingly clear that six of them do not even give the most minuscule sliver of a fuck.
I just know it in my soul that right before Roberts dies, he will publish an Op-Ed in the New York Times saying, “I regret enabling fascism :( I had no way to know, I’m just a widdle guy 🥹”
What gets my goat is that it’s plain to everyone on the Supreme Court what they are doing and why. All you have to do is read any of Thomas’s dissents in the past 10 years to understand that this man is either a complete amateur, has entirely checked out, or understands that he doesn’t actually need to do work anymore to destroy the system that attempted to reject him from the post on account of being, y’know, an amateur who could be bought for the price of a fucking motor home.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks in the ‘90s that he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals’ lives ‘miserable’