A growing number of Americans believe Supreme Court is motivated by politics, not law

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7. Gee, ya think?

The utter irony of this piece declaring that John Roberts is concerned with the perception that the court is now primarily political is laughable. He has done more to quietly politicize the court with decisions like Citizens United, hamstringing the VRA, declaring that gerrymandering is non-justiciable (and many, many more) than any chief justice in the history of the US.

Now he is allowing the shadow docket to metastasize with one unexplained decision after another that gives Trump virtually unlimited power while unbalancing our entire system of government. These so called constitutional originalists have simply ignored the Constitution and will continue to do so. The decision that kept our country from prohibiting Trump from running for president a third time via the plain text of the 14th amendment came directly from Roberts.

The SC is clearly political. His concerns are absurd. He has been the architect of the politicization of the court. Most of the most recent decisions have no basis in precedent. The “conservative” majority has a reactionary, rightwing, authoritarian agenda and, in general, they are enacting it with no explanation or justification via the shadow docket.