A brilliant essay in @TheAtlantic by @judgeluttig and @tribelaw on SCOTUS’s “supreme betrayal” of the Constitution in 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘷. 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯:
Our highest court dramatically and dangerously betrayed its obligation to enforce what once was the Constitution’s safety net for America’s democracy. The Supreme Court has now rendered that safety net a dead letter, effectively rescinding it as if it had never been enacted.
Lament to a nation … 🥲
this step that all nine justices took represents a constitutionally unforgivable departure from the fundamental truth of our republic that ‘no man is above the law.’” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“Whether born of a steeled determination 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘺 the presumptive Republican nominee from the presidency, or of a debilitating fear of even deciding 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 the Constitution disqualifies the presumptive Republican nominee precisely because he 𝘪𝘴 the presumptive Republican nominee,