SCOTUS: Illegitimate Arm of the MAGA Reich - How Far They Have Fallen

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5. The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us

The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us - Slate There will be no more self-soothing after this.

Well, not for most of us, at least. The excerpt below was from the first paragraph of the above. I broke it up into four pieces for easier reading.

For three long years, Supreme Court watchers mollified themselves (and others) with vague promises that when the rubber hit the road, even the ultraconservative Federalist Society justices of the Roberts court would put democracy before party whenever they were finally confronted with the legal effort to hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan. 6.

We promised ourselves that there would be cool heads and grand bargains and that even though the court might sometimes help Trump in small ways, it would privilege the country in the end.

We kept thinking that at least for Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts, the voice of reasoned never-Trumpers might still penetrate the Fox News fog.

We told ourselves that at least six justices, and maybe even seven, of the most MAGA-friendly court in history would still want to ensure that this November’s elections would not be the last in history. Political hacks they may be, but they were not lawless ones.

"We" told ourselves? Not I. I believe in the adage, "If it quacks like a duck...."