Highland Deac
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I’m feeling a lot better about the supposed crises in the SCOTUS’s authority after reading today’s posts. Turns out it may just be an overreaction to conspiracy theorizing know-nothings.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting that Roberts is going to swoop in and somehow save the day and ensure that Trump is convicted. That’s not up to him. But he is going to ensure that any proceedings under his watch are fair.
Suppose the SCOTUS overturns Roe, Junebug. Do you really think that vast numbers of people are just going to accept that and not see it as a hard-right partisan decision by the Federalist Society justices placed onto the Court? And do you not think such decisions will affect the Court's credibility with tens of millions of people who could be adversely affected by those decisions in civil rights, gun rights, women's rights, gay rights, etc? I know you don't see Gorsuch and Kavanaugh as hard-right justices chosen by the Federalist Society to perform a specific hard-right task on the Court, but a good many people would disagree with you. I have no idea how Roberts will preside over a Senate trial, but to say there is no cause for concern given all that has happened since November 2016 strikes me as whistling past the graveyard.