John Roberts Is Done Trusting Donald Trump

[Binkie The Clown]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-roberts-done-trusting-donald-183531912.html

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Chief Justice John Roberts has come to liberals’ rescue again, this time providing the decisive fifth Supreme Court vote to strike down the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

It’s morally uplifting that dreamers now won’t have to live under threat of deportation; and it’s unlikely that President Donald Trump will be able to rescind DACA, with new justifications, before he leaves office.

But don’t think that Roberts was motivated by any liberal sympathy for dreamers. The best explanation for his ruling is that Roberts is fed up with Donald Trump’s disrespect for the rule of law. Now he’s standing up for the role of the judicial branch of government in checking careless, lawless action by the executive.

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More at the link.

I guess we'll take what we can get. The conservatives we see turn against Trump the better it will be for the country.

[wryter2000]

1. I'll take it

Elect Biden, win the Senate, let that old fart, Thomas, retire, and we'll have a functioning Supreme Court.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Increase the size of the court or live in hell for years, and REMOVE every judge

Moscow Mitch appointed, they are ALL unqualified.

[Kyblue1]

22. The McConnell/Trump judges are not likely removable by the next Senate

But I agree that, at least Congress should increase the size of every federal court by the number appointed by Trump. Biden could then appoint qualified judges.

[leftieNanner]

5. Thomas won't retire when Joe is in the Oval Office

He doesn't want to be replaced by another RBG.

I am very interested in the ruling on Trump's taxes, if this is true. I can believe that Roberts thinks Trump's push that he is above the law won't sit well. Let's hope so.

[wryter2000]

12. I'm with you on Trump's taxes

I hope Roberts does the right thing.

[greenman3610]

21. when will we know on the taxes?

[leftieNanner]

26. Hopefully soon

It's a part of this session.

[StarfishSaver]

2. We'll see ...

[no_hypocrisy]

3. John Roberts isn't perfect. But at least, he's not a Federalist.

[Ms. Toad]

10. He has been.

Chief Justice John Roberts (listed as a member in 1997-98)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/01/02/feature/conquerors-of-the-courts/

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Two Years Max Says Something, Though

I certainly don't know, but maybe that crowd was too crazy for him.
There's got to be some reason he only kept membership for 2 years.

[Ms. Toad]

24. Ironically, at my law school they frequently pair with liberal organizations

to put on some really good multi-faceted discussions. We now have an ACS chapter (new, since Trump), so the Fed Soc role is diminished. I'm grateful for that, but before ACS came to campus a lot of decent law students were members of Fed Soc because they wanted some engagement with constitutional law and it was the only game in town.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Interesting

But, 22 years ago, Roberts was not in college.
He graduated from law school in 1976.
I didn't look up his CV, so I don't know what he was doing in the late 90s.
But, to be in & out of an organization that quickly while already a lawyer/judge for 22 years seems odd.
Maybe I'm making too much of it.

[Ms. Toad]

27. I checked -

Since my first thought was that perhaps he was a student member.

Sometimes I forget I didn't attend law school at the normal time - so when I see someone about the same age as me I forget they likely graduated 20 years earlier than I did.

[awesomerwb1]

6. republicans are republicans are republicans

Watch Roberts come to the rescue in future cases.

[genxlib]

7. While it is good news, the ruling has not put DACA in the clear.

I don't think the ruling fixed anything other than say the Trump administration needed to be less incompetent.

There are lots of articles like this one analyzing the ruling.

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/18/21295518/supreme-court-daca-trump-roberts-regents-university-california-homeland-security

And yet, while Regents means that these immigrants are not immediately at risk of deportation, they still must live under a cloud of uncertainty for at least as long as Donald Trump is president. As Chief Justice John Roberts notes in his majority opinion, “the dispute before the Court is not whether DHS may rescind DACA.” Indeed, “all parties agree that it may.”

Rather the dispute in Regents is “primarily about the procedure” the Department of Homeland Security followed when it tried to end DACA. Though Regents concludes that DHS did not follow the proper procedures, nothing prevents the department from trying again.

The best news about this is it allows us time to get the beast out of office before he has a chance to try again.

[ibegurpard]

8. We'll see how he rules on some upcoming issues

Before i make that leap

[Binkie The Clown]

9. Oh, I have no doubt he will back the conservatives in the long run, but...

...for now, at this moment in history, with the election just ahead of us, the more ways that Trump gets rattled and shaken, the better for everybody. Seems like Trump loves to fly off the rails whenever his feeling are hurt, and having him fly off the rails right now is a very good thing for us.

[Ms. Toad]

11. Pretty much what I tweeted back to the orange jerk. n/t

[mainer]

13. My ACLU friends reassured me about Roberts

During his confirmation hearings, I was told that those who'd clerked with Roberts said he was a reasonable man. It looks like they were right.

[Fullduplexxx]

14. based on what i read roberts said which is

the chief justice made clear that the decision was based on procedural issues and that the Trump administration could try to redress them.

Trump can fix the procedural issues and sent it back

[Buckeyeblue]

16. This decision buys a little time

If Trump somehow wins, DACA is done for. So many other things will be too.

[Fullduplexxx]

19. Yea it does vut everyone is claiming this as a big victory like no one read what roberts saidsaid

[Mr.Bill]

17. Anyone who is just now figuring out

that Trump can't be trusted has a severe learning disability.

My apologies to those with severe learning disabilities.

[Lonestarblue]

18. Congress needs to fix this.

House Democrats should pass a bill now granting DACA recipients the right to stay here and the right to apply for citizenship. When the Senate votes it down, or Mitch refuses to allow it to come up for a vote, that can be used against them because a large majority of people, even Republicans, support allowing the DACA recipients stay.

[Thekaspervote]

20. Yes.. he is standing up for the rule of law.. in opposite of the lawless creep...good!

[H2O Man]

23. Recommended.