How #Roberts Shaped #Trump’s #SCOTUS Winning Streak
Behind the scenes, the #ChiefJustice molded 3 momentous #Jan6 & #election cases that helped determine the fmr president’s fate.
Last Feb, Chief Justice #JohnRoberts sent his 8 #SupremeCourt colleagues a confidential memo that radiated frustration & certainty.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/justice-roberts-trump-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K04.wARn.oV9X_Fd23Prd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp
#Trump, seeking to retake the #WhiteHouse, had made a bold, last-ditch appeal to the justices. He wanted them to block his fast-approaching #criminal trial on charges of attempting to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that he was protected by presidential #immunity. Whatever move #SCOTUS made could have lasting consequences for the next #election, the scope of presidential #power & the court’s own battered reputation.
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The #ChiefJustice’s Feb 22 memo, jump-starting the justices’ formal discussion on whether to hear the case, offered a scathing critique of a lower-court decision & a startling preview of how the high court would later rule, acc/to several people from the court who saw the document.
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The #ChiefJustice tore into the appellate court opinion greenlighting #Trump’s trial, calling it inadequate & poorly reasoned. On one key point, he complained, the lower court judges “failed to grapple w/the most difficult questions altogether.” He wrote not only that #SCOTUS should take the case — which would stall the #trial — but also HOW the justices should DECIDED it.
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“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently” from the appeals court, #ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts wrote. In other words: grant #Trump greater protection from prosecution.
In a momentous trio of #Jan6 related cases last term, the court found itself more entangled in presidential #politics than at any time since the 2000 election, even as it was contending w/its own controversies related to that day.
#ChiefJustice #JohnRoberts responded by deploying his #authority to STEER RULINGS that BENEFITED #Trump, acc/to a NYT examination that uncovered extensive new info about the court’s decision making.
#JFC that’s it. #DisbandSCOTUS
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@Nonilex The chief doesn't control the other justices, though. If the other justices didn't agree with the ruling it wouldn't have gone through, as is extremely evident in every single case before the court.
He can only steer rulings in the sense of choosing different wording. Beyond that, the other justices have as much power as he does to make their decisions.
This is a silly way to approach the Supreme Court.
