It’s entirely possible that I’m repeating something I’ve written before, but Driftglass, one of my favorite bloggers, does that all the time, so I will proceed.
It came as no surprise to me that the Supreme Court told Lindsay Graham to pound sand when he asked them to protect him from testifying in Georgia about his attempts to undermine the 2020 election. (Though they did leave Lindsay a bit of an out, as he can drag things out be interposing bullshit objections to specific questions. )His legal theory was, of course, preposterous, but that it and of itself means nothing to the current court.
Roberts, et. al., are concerned, you see, about the court’s credibility. They have what they want at the moment, a secure fascist majority intent on rubbing out the constitutional rights they don’t like, while inventing new ones to assist Republicans generally. But you have to do these things, as the Wicked Witch said, “Delicately”. That means trying to maintain a facade of impartiality while taking a wrecking ball to the Republic.
One way of doing that is by refusing to bail out folks like Lindsay, the January 6th rioters, and ultimately, most likely, Donald Trump. They don’t need these guys anymore, as they’ve got what they want, a lifetime appointment to a court that increasingly sees itself as the final authority on all things. And they don’t really have to worry if the folks that got them there end up in jail, as they’re busy making sure that folks whose politics align with theirs will be “elected” in the future, to replace any poor sap who has to go to jail in order to assure the public that the court is entirely non-partisan and totally objective. They are about, for instance, to rule that Republican dominated state legislatures are free to overrule the will of the people in their states if those people, already gerrymandered out of a chance to have a representative state legislature, should dare to vote for a Democrat for a statewide or federal office.
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