Court of Shadows: Roberts and Trump Power Play Unmasked
TL;DR
Slate’s Lithwick and Stern argue the Supreme Court is broadly enabling Donald Trump’s maximized executive power through rapid and secretive shadow-docket decisions, with Chief Justice Roberts shaping optics to advance judicial supremacy; even as the court occasionally pushes back, the pattern risks eroding checks and balances and could precipitate a constitutional crisis if Trump refuses to concede gains or accepts losses.
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