@okjess.bsky.social: Genuine question: what *is* the worth in a Roberts clerk telling us the Pollyanna view of what's going on with them? We know better than he does!

Baude who, by the way, clerked for Roberts, and whose read on what the hell is going on with the conservatives is worth a great deal

ignore the hed, this is extremely harsh criticism from the very measured Will Baude of the Court's rulings in the 14th Amendment and immunity cases www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

Opinion | A Principled Supreme Court, Unnerved by Trumpwww.nytimes.com Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.

Genuine question: what *is* the worth in a Roberts clerk telling us the Pollyanna view of what's going on with them? We know better than he does!

This is a person who is never going to accept that Roberts did this to improve Trump's odds of wining the election.

Again: Roberts was explicitly lying here. This opinion was very much about Trump, and we should not be led by the nose into thinking otherwise.

arsonists simply don’t have the capacity to be firefighters.

That's to be expected, but it's really disheartening to see people like Quinta, Rick Hasen and Steve Vladeck *also* refusing to acknowledge why Roberts did this. If non-conservative legal pundits and academics don't get it, they're not going to be able to help the public get it.

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