Gift article, no paywall
Illegitimate court. If you can’t conduct yourself with honesty, your rulings cannot be trusted.
Bold of you to assume that they care what the
plebspeople thinkThe interesting thing about the court is their power comes from our belief in their legitimacy. They don’t have any repercussions if the executive and legislature completely ignores their rulings.
It’s a system of giant novelty checks and balancing said checking account.
And I got down voted for saying that distrust in the judicial system is becoming a bipartisan effort (following the Trump verdict).
Regarding the appearance of impropriety these facts are pretty straightforward.
If he recuses himself, he loses his voice in this case, if he doesn’t, the supreme Court loses it’s trustworthiness.
He chose, and he didn’t do it wisely. Most people in power don’t think of the consequences right up until the consequences and it looks to me like it takes a civil war for everyone to realize how badly they need trust in the system.
The recently-appointed chair fillers (and Thommy the Traitor) care not a whit for justice. Only their payola.
