honestly mindblowing to me that he expected that ruling to go over well like he seems genuinely baffled that it didn’t and come ON, man

The Republican "bubble" is buttoned up real tight, and they live isolated in it to their own peril.

as the article notes he as a reputation of being this generationally brilliant guy, but this is mostly a narrative from his time as a supreme court litigator. as a justice he's been reliably kind of a dunce

The fact that Roberts could have gotten rid of Trump (who I continue to think is a bad candidate who would get less votes than other Republicans) before he ran again but didn’t confirms my belief that it’s Fox pudding brain all the way to the top. They live in the alternate reality they created.

At risk of sounding cynical, did he not realize the court could just personally throw Trump under the bus (and therefore avoid looking like they're his toadies) and then go on and implement 100% of their other policy goals?