"“The supreme court has pulled the rug out from under the lower federal courts, and it has done so deliberately and knowingly. The chief justice has no higher obligation than to protect the federal judiciary from attacks by this president, and in my view he has utterly failed.” #SCOTUS https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
@twrling What in the world? Pulled the rug out from lower federal courts? No, that's not how the US system works at all.
The Supreme Court sets the rules. Lower courts are bound to follow those rules. There's no pulling the rug out, there's just the constitutional order, effectively a supervisor telling the underlying what to do.
If your boss tells you to go count the cans in the store room instead of sitting on your phone, that's not pulling the rug out, that's managing.
@volkris Most of us don't see the Supreme Court that way right now. We see them undermining established understandings in the law. It's frustrating.