The U.S. Supreme Court just signaled that it's unhealthy and may be unable to handle a Donald Trump case currently before it, a legal expert said on Tuesday.
Lisa Rubin, a legal analyst on MSNBC, pointed to an investigation by the New York Times, which revealed the inner-workings of the Supreme Court behind the scenes as it dismantled the right to abortion. According to Rubin, there was a headline buried in there.
"I keep thinking about [Jodi Kantor] & [Adam Liptak]'s piece about SCOTUS--and specifically about the agreement to grant cert in Dobbs but conceal that decision from the public (and on the Court's docket) for months," Rubin said. She added that, "As a result of that agreement, a case that 5 members of the court agreed to hear instead looked as if it was being held over for further discussion again and again and again and again."
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On the importance of the issue, Rubin further noted, "You might be thinking, 'So what? Why is that such a big deal?' It matters to me because if the reporting is accurate, the Supreme Court docket was not, and purposefully so."
She continued:
"If the justices can't be counted on to be transparent about a relatively mundane aspect of their decisionmaking process (other than their actual opinions) that we are entitled to see, what else are they concealing for the sake of their own reputations & 'legitimacy'?" Rubin asked.
Finally, the lawyer concluded:
"It's one more disquieting signal that the Court is not healthy the night before Trump owes those same nine people a brief in a case pivotal to our democracy and the rule of law," she said.
