The SCOTUS Chronicles

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The pernicious myth that Chief Justice John Roberts is a moderate conservative may finally be put to rest. Over the weekend, the Times reported that behind the scenes, Roberts quickly took hardline stances in cases related to the January 6 insurrection, pushing for outcomes most favorable to Donald Trump. Some court-watchers’ suspicions that Roberts was a Never-Trump Republican were, as it turns out, greatly exaggerated.

Perhaps less surprising than the revelations in the reporting were the Times’s sources inside the famously opaque Court: “the justices’ private memos, documentation of proceedings and interviews with court insiders, both conservative and liberal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because deliberations are supposed to be kept secret.”

Conservative commentators, as they usually do, raced to condemn not the embarrassing substance but the tainted process. The Wall Street Journal editorial board called the leak a “betrayal of confidence” that is “damaging to the comity of the Court.” Fox News commentator John Shu mourned violations of the “sacred confidentiality” of the decision-making process: “It’s really scary that yet another norm has been shattered,” he said. And David Harsanyi wrote in the Washington Examiner that whoever leaked the internal documents is “part of a conspiracy to destroy the Supreme Court.”

https://ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...-the-dark/

Am I alone in the thought that a conspiracy to destroy the current court is not a terrible idea?