competing theory of john roberts from @stevenmazie.bsky.social: maybe roberts is still trying to play the institutionalist game but has lost his read on how the court is perceived by the public x.com/stevenmazie/...
I used to believe this but that immunity decision was so batshit that I can no longer give him any benefit of the doubt. That was not written by a man who cares about his country.
Could not agree more. They absolutely knew how lawless that ruling is. It’s why it came on the last day and they disappeared in a cloud of gold dust.
I think Roberts, like most Republicans, have seen how no one holds them accountable for extremism. No fight. No media pushback. Nothing.
The dreadful immunity decision has me rethinking NFIB v. Sibelius and the reported logroll between Roberts and Kagan over the individual insurance mandate and Medicaid expansion
When the stakes are at their highest Roberts seems to get a case of the yips and go off the rails
The thing is, I think he really *does* love his country, it’s just that his idea of what that means and mine have diverged so far they no longer inhabit the same universe. He’s way down into the alternate universe where this decision is righteous, and people like me just don’t understand the truth.
