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"Get ready for another rightward lurch in the new Supreme Court term. If things stay true to form, President Trump will benefit from the Roberts court’s generous takes on executive power. The rest of us may not be so lucky. …

From the cases already set to be heard, the court’s conservative majority has shown the direction in which it will most likely take the country over the next nine months."

~ Matt Ford

#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
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https://newrepublic.com/article/200905/new-supreme-court-term-trump

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

From the cases already set to be heard, the court’s conservative majority has shown the direction in which it will most likely take the country over the next nine months."

~ Matt Ford

#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
/5

https://newrepublic.com/article/200905/new-supreme-court-term-trump

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · last week

"The conservative judicial revolution has achieved something remarkable: they’ve used the Constitution to destroy constitutional governance, employed originalism to justify unlimited presidential authority, and transformed legal scholarship into systematic rationalization for the very tyranny the Founders designed our system to prevent."

~ Mike Brock

#SupremeCourt #Trump #corruption #JohnRoberts
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-conservative-legal-revolutions

The Conservative Legal Revolution’s Nihilistic Core: How “Originalism” Became Systematic Constitutional Destruction

When constitutional interpretation becomes weapon against constitutional governance

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