It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.
It’s just the ridiculous 9/11 era “torture the captured terrorist to find the ticking nuclear bomb under Manhattan” scenario. They live in terror that in an imaginary hypothetical the most powerful man in the world might be too selfish to make what they think is the obvious decision.
They do act like scared little school boys a lot of the time, as with their rulings shielding police and expanding criminal prosecutions. It's like they get mugged each day when they leave the court.
