Mr. Smith

[malthaussen]

23. I have no fear of the USSC in this case.

It is simply not within their interests or their agenda to give Mr Trump what he wants. The Court and the GOP have separate interests, which often align, but are occasionally at cross-purposes, and in no case of that nature will the Court give the RW maniacs what they're hoping for. They certainly will never rule in a fashion which might come back and limit their own authority or privilege later on.

The RW desires a dictatorial government with themselves in the driver's seat. The USSC does not, they desire something that makes them the lynchpin of the law. Essential to such a position is that the law continues to be of some importance. A Party or person ruling by fiat would not accomplish this.

The people on the USSC owe nobody anything, except the billionaires who keep giving them gifts. They are appointed for life and cannot be touched by any mere politician, however powerful, however much of a nasty, mean-spirited so-and-so he may be. When it comes to leverage to get the Court to do their bidding, the MAGA crowd got nothin'. With neither aligned interests, nor any leverage, the MAGAs haven't got a chance. The only question is whether one or two justices might dissent out of sheer bloody-mindedness or instructions from someone who does have leverage.

-- Mal