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.”
So what happens when the judiciary is scared of another body? Who enforces the rules? It seems like the public is hoping the judiciary will do something, the judiciary is waiting for Congress to do something, and congress is doing congress things: pontificating and posturing in the name of theatre. No one is actually doing anything.