The Roberts' Court

[billisonboard]

The time is now for the Supreme Court to step up and deal with the downward spiral of chaos that the 2024 Presidential Election is becoming. At the center of this is Chief Justice Roberts. I was thinking on this and found the following:

The stakes for a man as steeped in history as John Roberts (are) high. Supreme Court eras are always discussed and evaluated in terms of the chief justice. It was the “Marshall Court,” or the “Taney Court,” or the “Warren Court.” And it will be the “Roberts Court.” He bears a burden that even the most prominent associate justice—Oliver Wendell Holmes or John Marshall Harlan or Antonin Scalia or Ruth Bader Ginsburg—does not. As he noted ruefully in an interview in 2007, “It’s sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures.” That the Court’s most notorious decisions, such as Dred Scott v. Sandford, are inextricably linked with their presiding chief justice provide(s) all the incentive Roberts need(s) to use his vaunted social skills to avoid the same fate. link

His legacy has to be on his mind. But will he raise to the occasion? Will he be able to get the Court to deal with the situation promptly and decisively? Will he work to have the court avoid things calling them "political questions"? Will the Right write a 5-4 opinion that goes too far for him?

And, of course, there will be the decisions themselves.

[busymom]

I wish I had confidence in the Supreme Court right now.  Sadly, I do not.  They aren't honoring precedent, so while I hope they will do "the right thing", I just don't know.  The optimist in me HOPES they will uphold the Constitution, but it seems lately their personal political preferences are winning, which means our country is losing. It is way past time to eliminate the lifetime appointments to a very critical job.  

[billisonboard]

Dec 29, 2023 22:14:04 GMT -5 busymom said:

I wish I had confidence in the Supreme Court right now.  Sadly, I do not.  They aren't honoring precedent, so while I hope they will do "the right thing", I just don't know.  The optimist in me HOPES they will uphold the Constitution, but it seems lately their personal political preferences are winning, which means our country is losing. It is way past time to eliminate the lifetime appointments to a very critical job.  

They certainly aren't making many rulings these days which support my personal political preferences.

[happyhoix]

Yes but they have not been the abject Trump toady I was afraid the would become once Trump loaded it up with three far right picks. Yes they did kill Roe but there have been multiple cases regarding the 2020 election and J6 that they did not find in his favor, which enraged Trump to no end, since apparently he thinks since he got them their jobs they are now obligated to be his puppet.

I hope they stick with that as all of his appeals start landing at the SCOTUS. We’ll see.