The Supreme Court has let us down. The highest court in the land is now a tawdry instrument of Trumpism.
Such is the progressive line in the wake of last week’s oral arguments over Trump’s immunity claim.
In a headline, Slate deemed the arguments “The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us.” Salon huffed, “SCOTUS majority abandons conservative principles to mount bizarre defense of Trump’s immunity claim.” One headline at the Atlantic warned of “The Trumpification of the Supreme Court,” while another maintained, “Trump Is Getting What He Wants.”
The first thing to say about this is that, as a technical matter, all indications are that Trump isn’t going to get what he wants; the Court showed little indication that it is going to accept his sweeping claim of immunity.
