Yeah, I don't think Trump holds "leverage" over any SCT judge. They have lifetime appointments. They are at the very top of the legal profession ... nowhere else to be promoted to, unlike a Judge Aileen Cannon of the district court. Trump can't lay a glove on them. Nobody anywhere can discipline them. (Yeah, I know they can be impeached …
Yeah, I don't think Trump holds "leverage" over any SCT judge. They have lifetime appointments. They are at the very top of the legal profession ... nowhere else to be promoted to, unlike a Judge Aileen Cannon of the district court. Trump can't lay a glove on them. Nobody anywhere can discipline them. (Yeah, I know they can be impeached and removed by the Senate...good luck with thhat.) When SCT judges are ruling in favor of Trump, they're doing so because they want to, not because they feel Trump has leverage on them.
Trump doesn't need to place a glove on them. They are Federalist Society conservatives. Like all such conservatives, they want to roll back the clock to before the Rights Revolution of the 60s, which actually began in 1954 with the Warren Court's unanimous decision that segregation is inherently unequal.
Yeah, I don't think Trump holds "leverage" over any SCT judge. They have lifetime appointments. They are at the very top of the legal profession ... nowhere else to be promoted to, unlike a Judge Aileen Cannon of the district court. Trump can't lay a glove on them. Nobody anywhere can discipline them. (Yeah, I know they can be impeached and removed by the Senate...good luck with thhat.) When SCT judges are ruling in favor of Trump, they're doing so because they want to, not because they feel Trump has leverage on them.
Trump doesn't need to place a glove on them. They are Federalist Society conservatives. Like all such conservatives, they want to roll back the clock to before the Rights Revolution of the 60s, which actually began in 1954 with the Warren Court's unanimous decision that segregation is inherently unequal.