In the be-careful-what-you-wish-for department, Roberts and his corrupt brethren were co frantic to ensure Trump’s election victory that they ushered in a lawless presidency that could render them irrelevant.
In Slate. Mark Joseph stern evokes the “reaping phase” of the second Trump presidency”
“In the course of effectively exonerating Trump for his misdeeds, the Supreme Court endorsed a corrupt vision of the presidency in which self-dealing, partisan retribution, and abuse of power were reframed as legitimate, even laudable constitutional prerogatives of the chief executive. . .Trump’s second administration has, predictably, embraced this cynical conception of executive authority, with devastating results for democracy and civil liberties.”