I saw per curiam and had to believe I misread the decision. I tried to talk myself into the liberal justices kinda sorta dissenting with their concurrence. Having done that, it felt so good to just unravel myself after reading this. You wrote what I felt and I hope more people call this out for what it is. Cowardice.
I heartily endorse your focus on the lack of dissent. There is reporting that indicates it might well have started out as a dissent, but for some reason it became a concurrence. Which means that the "liberal" justices must have agreed to it being a concurrence. I can only imagine that they will dissent when the immunity decision favoring Trump is issued--and, please, do not think for another second that the MAGA justices won't fashion some kind of ruling that favors our oathbreaking insurrectionist former President. I believe the Chief Justice has decreed that decisions--and dissents--can no longer be read from the bench. Will the dissenters go along with this decree without a murmur? There is no reason they can't go out on the steps of the Supreme Court and read it out loud there.
I for one hope the Biden team has their bucket list ready for all the things he can do if this sham of a court decides the president has immunity to the extent he can order the extrajudicial (pun intended) removal of certain undemocratic elements of our institutional bodies. :P
I fully expect them to try and thread the needle that Trump is somehow immune, but Biden wouldn't be. And we all know that's bullshit. I hope they think about how much the democratic party wants to rebalance the court as they approach this fraught decision.
I saw per curiam and had to believe I misread the decision. I tried to talk myself into the liberal justices kinda sorta dissenting with their concurrence. Having done that, it felt so good to just unravel myself after reading this. You wrote what I felt and I hope more people call this out for what it is. Cowardice.
I heartily endorse your focus on the lack of dissent. There is reporting that indicates it might well have started out as a dissent, but for some reason it became a concurrence. Which means that the "liberal" justices must have agreed to it being a concurrence. I can only imagine that they will dissent when the immunity decision favoring Trump is issued--and, please, do not think for another second that the MAGA justices won't fashion some kind of ruling that favors our oathbreaking insurrectionist former President. I believe the Chief Justice has decreed that decisions--and dissents--can no longer be read from the bench. Will the dissenters go along with this decree without a murmur? There is no reason they can't go out on the steps of the Supreme Court and read it out loud there.
I for one hope the Biden team has their bucket list ready for all the things he can do if this sham of a court decides the president has immunity to the extent he can order the extrajudicial (pun intended) removal of certain undemocratic elements of our institutional bodies. :P
I fully expect them to try and thread the needle that Trump is somehow immune, but Biden wouldn't be. And we all know that's bullshit. I hope they think about how much the democratic party wants to rebalance the court as they approach this fraught decision.