The Roberts Court and the Rule of Lawlessness
Listening to the oral argument in the Trump immunity case last week, and reading Mike's excellent recap of the debacle, I could not help but think how surreal the conservative justices were acting. It felt like they were going out of their way to ignore our immediate and pressing crisis involving an ex-President who tried to resist the peaceful transfer of power with violence and lies. The male conservatives also pretended that every potential future issue involving presidential immunity had to be worked out in this case, which is exactly the opposite position of the “good for one day” language and theme of Bush v. Gore . The only similarities between the two cases are Republicans looking out for Republicans, which is exactly what one would expect from a highly partisan ultimate veto council staffed with a majority of Republicans. The disaster that was the Trump v. United States oral argument reminded me of how little the Roberts Court has actually cared about rule of law val