Lower courts are holding the line against authoritarianism while getting death threats and zero backup from above.
Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court. Presidential immunity, for example, did not exist until Donald Trump asked for it and the Roberts court gave it to him.
“They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,” one judge said during appeals court oral arguments that turned into a venting session about the high court’s terse emergency rulings.
White people are depicted as victims of discrimination;.white South Africans are invited as refugees; the president demands a museum designed to tell the African American story must tell a happy tale. The voting rights law may not see a 61st birthday
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The three dissenting justices use stark language to frame the threat: “The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution. ... No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.”
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It is unclear whether Thomas and Alito would offer any restraint whatsoever on Trump exercising absolute power. The rest of the court, by contrast, is seemingly running out of patience for its tricks, misrepresentations, and defiance.
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