Lawyer David Lurie is blaming U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for working with other conservative justices on the court to create the "monster" that is President Donald Trump.
Writing Monday on he website Public Notice, Lurie said that those justices "not only paved the way" for a second Trump term but then encouraged his "dictatorial powers upon his return."
Now the president is trying to pull the justices into "[doing] Trump’s bidding" while undermining "the judicial power and authority that Republicans devoted so much effort to obtain," Lurie wrote in the article headlined: "John Roberts created a monster. It's about to eat him."
He added that by allowing Trump to get away with Jan. 6 and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, Roberts and the court were the ones who were at fault, rather than Attorney General Merrick Garland, who served under the Joe Biden administration. Many on the left have blamed Garland for moving too slowly to ensure Trump's accountability.
"First, the Court delayed its immunity ruling for months, and thereby held the Trump prosecution in abeyance," he began. "Authored by Roberts, the decision not only made it a practical impossibility for Trump to be tried before the election, but also granted him a far broader ambit of immunity than his lawyers had initially even thought of asking for."
"Roberts’s immunity ruling not only gutted much of Smith’s case against Trump, it also sent a clear message: If Trump won the election, he could freely engage in even more egregious crimes, secure in the assurance that he would never face criminal accountability," Lurie continued. "As Justice Sotomayor put it in her dissent, the Court made the president into a “king above the law.”
He cited a "Supreme Court that served as the judicial stooge of an aspiring dictator." It prompted him to question how the Court could be taken seriously by any future president to accept their rulings limiting the executive branch.