Roberts made no serious effort to entice the three liberal justices for even a modicum of the cross-ideological agreement that distinguished such presidential-powers cases in the past. He believed he could persuade people to look beyond Trump.
Roberts made no serious effort to entice the three liberal justices for even a modicum of the cross-ideological agreement that distinguished such presidential-powers cases in the past. He believed he could persuade people to look beyond Trump.
The thing that is most amazing about the immunity ruling is that it a) hands the executive a giant mallet with which to smash whatever it wants (as long as it’s called ‘official’ aka ‘national security’) but for the few times that it may get challenged, reserves the right to decide whether it was official or not to the same gang that handed over the mallet.
That gives them the right to declare anything they don’t like by a president they don’t favor as ‘non-official’ and whatever a president they like does as ‘cool.’ And good luck challenging something when you can’t even take a look at the ‘evidence.’
It’s an elaborate construct designed to divert water in exactly one direction and not another, at least for the lifetime of this Chief Justice.