Summary
When the Supreme Court last year wrestled with whether to grant then-former President Donald Trump broad immunity from prosecution, Justice Neil Gorsuch stressed the ruling was “for the ages.”
The court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, has ruled for Trump in half of six emergency applications, without rebuking the administration’s conduct.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, “The government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.”
Professor Leah Litman said justices are influenced by “conservative grievance.”
There isn’t much the court can do if Trump refuses to comply and Republicans in Congress continue to support him. I hate to say it, but avoiding a confrontation may be better than getting into that situation, both for the court and for the country.
It would be better to have a constitutional crisis now rather than in 2 years when he’s consolidated more power and yes men, kicking out resistance from other institutions.
I have no doubt they’ll take the cowards route or take money to take the cowards route.
My hope is that if they wait two years then it’ll be to minimize the damage until the midterm elections, at which point Democrats will win both the house and the senate. I think that’s the best-case scenario.
Watch what’s been happening with voter suppression. The 2026 vote will be so rigged that there’s no way the Dems can come back from it.
Ignoring all signs that the court will be powerless by then. They are already being ignored. Kicking up no fuss is step one to reducing their legitimacy and ability to create problems for attempts to circumvent another coup.