All posts tagged "John Roberts"

President Donald Trump keeps attacking the conservative Supreme Court justices, including those he appointed, for ruling against him. CNN's chief Supreme Court analyst says that may be helping them.

Trump recently told Time magazine he regrets some of his picks for the court.

"Yeah, yeah, what can I do? I put them in. They voted against me too often," Trump said. "I gave them the position of a lifetime. They vote against me often."...

President Donald Trump invited three conservative Supreme Court justices to his state dinner hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which prompted outcry.

On Thursday, multiple reporters pointed out that Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts were expected to attend the dinner. The New York Times reported the full guest list, which featured more than 130 guests and included Tech titans like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Tim Cook.

"I guess Trump wasn't that p— about birthright citizenship or well this is an open bribe," reacted legal expert and journalist Marcy Wheeler, who runs the "emptywheel" podcast and blog. "You decide."...

The Supreme Court's rejection of President Donald Trump's request for a rehearing to overturn writer E. Jean Carroll's $5 million civil judgment against him after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed her can't undo a string of court rulings that had favored the president, an analyst argued.

Salon's Alex Galbraith discussed on Wednesday how Chief Justice John Roberts and other justices handed Trump a rare loss — and "smoke screen."

Galbraith compared the Supreme Court to the Harlem Globetrotters performances, "getting caught up in the magic circle that surrounds Trump’s actions as president."...

The Supreme Court's high-profile losses for President Donald Trump obscure a longer game the justices are quietly winning, a legal expert warned.

In a recent piece for The Atlantic, University of Chicago law professor Aziz Huq argued that the Supreme Court's recent defeats for Trump on birthright citizenship and global tariffs shouldn't be read as a "moderate turn" or a sign of "true independence."

Huq contended that the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts is following a plan of "deep constitutional change" that will "transform the First Amendment, eviscerate the equal-protection clause, and recalibrate the Constitution's balance of powers." ...

Legal experts warned that a recent ruling from the Supreme Court is a trap for future presidents disliked by Chief Justice John Roberts.

During an episode of Slate's Amicus podcast, the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which lets Trump fire the heads of independent federal agencies, was flagged as a one-sided gift that will snap shut the moment a Democrat returns to the White House.

Sam Bagenstos, a University of Michigan law professor, predicted on the podcast that the Supreme Court would uphold a future Democratic president firing Trump appointees and cite Slaughter to do it. But the catch will be that when those new appointees try to act, the court "would also find other ways to rein in that Democratic president's power."...

The Supreme Court is expected to gut a century-old legal precedent and expand Trump's power over independent agencies, per a legal expert.

Lisa Graves, a legal investigative researcher and Chief Justice John Roberts biographer, warned in a recent piece about how SCOTUS will rule in Trump v. Slaughter later this month. She fears the court will overturn Humphrey's Executor, the 1931 precedent that bars presidents from firing Federal Trade Commission commissioners without cause.

"This is a choice—an illegitimate one—not a necessity or requirement of the law, no matter what John Roberts and his fellow Republican appointees on the Supreme Court may claim," Graves wrote. "Their edict will be dressed up in the language of 'separation of powers,' but that is merely a costume for this extraordinary power grab."...