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.”
What if the court tries doing things the right and lawful way, fails, and then says “fuck it, rule of law is obviously dead, so here’s a hail mary” and appeals to citizens at large to enforce it, promising immunity to those who act?
That will never happen.
Well not with that attitude