Summary
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke after Trump called for impeaching judges who ruled against him.
Roberts defended judicial independence, but critics argue his court’s rulings have shielded Trump from accountability, enabling his authoritarian tendencies.
Trump ignored a federal court order blocking migrant deportations, prompting legal scrutiny. Judges facing threats highlight growing concerns over the judiciary’s role in checking executive power.
With a conservative Supreme Court majority, questions remain over whether Roberts will continue enabling Trump’s power or push back against further erosion of judicial authority.
He’s just trying to cover his ass.
Roberts is a fucking traitor that opened the floodgates for this shit, and now he has buyers remorse?!? That’s what happens when you buy a Tesla. This? This isn’t buyers remorse.
I hope he dies of measles.
I wouldn’t call it buyer’s remorse.
Let me share a hot take based on my experience of living in the US, Ukraine and Russia (and closely following politics).
There are two factors that are likely driving Roberts’ behaviour:
- They need an alibi. They need something that can differentiate them from the current oligarch regime in the US. While the US is a pretty conformist country (not saying the most conformist there is, but far more conformist than the popularity of recital of freedom polemics would suggest), you always have the possibility of black swan type events. One example would be Trump and his close associates being taken down in a forceful and public manner. The judicial wing of the oligarchic regime wants a failsafe, something that would allow them to say “we are not oligarch shills, we were just following a conservative judicial philosophy, it is not our fault that it was exploited by bad actors!” They are smart enough to know that if black swan type events do happen, they often take a life of their own and all bets are off. They want an exit strategy.
- Judicial independence. I don’t mean this in the American sense of the term. I am talking about different power centres within an oligarchic regime. Let’s take russia for example. Even though it’s a highly centralized regime, it still has different power centres. The russian central bank has a modicum of independence. Different cliques in the power structures (and there are many cliques) have their own agenda and capabilities. Regional warlords (Kadyrov being the most well know, but he is not the only one) do have some manner of leverage in the system. The oligarchs, while being banned from politics, do have freedom in how they run their businesses. The one notable example without any leverage is the russian judicial system. They are little more than rubber stamp goons with no independent power. Roberts does not want to turn into Judge Ivan of Govnogorsk. He needs to show the other power centres in America’s oligarch regime that cooperation has a price and that other thugs need to show him respect.
The more I observe American politics the more I realize all three countries you mention have more in common than many want to acknowledge.
Especially the taboos about speaking of certain political truths. Americans are more Russian than most other countries
Or it may be that we in the West are not exceptional, Russians are also just people, and it can happen to any country that is not willing to resist it.
Yes and no? Both are large areas of land of scattered and mixed populations held together by political strangeness that is surprisingly robust.
Both seem easy to understand , however in closer inspection are misunderstood by most, even by their own citizens.
I hope he dies of
measlesuntreated rabies.Go big or go home.
Let’s add syphilis to that cocktail.
Yes but not until someone sane is in the white house. He will need to be replaced.
Will there will be a sane replacement, or a White House, later?
There will be a whites-only house… does that count?
What the fuck did he think was going to happen when he enabled a dictator?
He thought FedSoc judges would be running the show. He never imagined Elon would Leeroy Jenkins his way into control of the federal government
What’s the line, It didn’t matter till they came for me?
No he doesn’t. That was the plan all along. Once Trump is king, he will remove the separation of church and state and Avada Kedavra you have an Evangelical theocracy. And with control of the military, he can do anything he wants.
Is that a leopard on your face, your honor? Hur dur har har!!!
(as fascists put a bag over my head and drive me away in a van…)
So the court can reverse itself. Do it.
Yeah, it’s not as if they give a shit about precedent.
Republicans are all about theatrics and gotcha moments. I feel this is another of those. Remember the McConnell/Trump rivalry? Political Theater. Remember Bush (W. Bush)/Trump rivalry? Political Theater. This is going to be one of them.
And the most disgusting and blatant display of it is Trump/Vance vs Zelinsky. Not just political theater but political 2nd graders doing Death of a Salesman.
Who could have guessed??! If only there were some way to know that being a spineless collaborator would come back to bite you and everyone else in the ass!
Fuck him and the rest of the Republican SC.
What is it with these idiots that they think “yeah but you weren’t supposed to attack me and my friends with that unlimited power I gave you!” right after giving unlimited power to a narcissistic psychopathic liar who will sell his own mother if it would benefit him…?
Fuck that rancid traitor
Nah, this is just a show so he can later claim in his memoirs that he resisted as best he could. He’ll do as he’s told.
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“Wait… he’s a leopard? I thought he was a cheetah!”
