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Mitchell Epner@mitchellepner.bsky.social |
I think he is a COWARD who was afraid the right would come after him if he stood up to Trump. I think he thinks his legacy will be adjudicated by the Heritage/Cato/Federalist Societies. I think he would be horrified to learn he will be remembered as the moral equivalent of Roland Freisler.
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Staid Winnow
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He has a lifetime appointment. They did not come after him when his court rejected all those election lawsuits. So I am not sure he is a coward as much as he is complicit. I doubt if he worries about his legacy anymore especially when the legacy writers, as you point out, are his people.
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Argle-Bargler
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Coward is right. I think had he split with the majority we would've had a somehow worse ruling written by Alito, Gorsuch, or Kavanaugh. Had ACB fully split with the majority, Roberts would have gone with her so he could write that opinion and soften the impact on Trump as much as possible.
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Dominix
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IMO he’s more like Freisler’s colleagues on the People’s Court (they were not prosecuted after the war, it must be said). Freisler himself was an entirely different thing-fanatical, psychologically unstable showman of the courtroom.
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Jim Goodale
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Who will be our white rose?
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JayAllTheEms
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[sighs.] i thought the whole point of lifetime appointment was that you can do what's right and not what's popular because you won't ever have to run for office. you don't have to be afraid of people coming after you. [sighs again and pinches the bridge of his nose.]
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