“Thank you again, thank you again,” Trump said, taking Roberts’s hand into both his own and shaking it vigorously. Then, as he began to step away, the president tapped Roberts on the arm in a gesture of buddy-buddy intimacy, and said: “Won’t forget.”

Supreme court watchers have wondered why Trump thanked the chief justice so effusively. Was it because the Roberts court had, exactly a year earlier, allowed Trump to stay on the electoral ballot even though he had inspired a violent mob attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021?

Could it have been that Roberts had written the ruling that immunised Trump from criminal prosecution for that January 6 insurrection and for any other criminal misdeed he might commit while in the White House?

  • tylerkdurdan@lemmy.world
    25·
    13 days ago

    i see your john roberts and raise you ‘moscow’ Mitch McConnel…the man who refused to do anything during TWO impeachments/J6…your move

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        2·
        12 days ago

        All time?

        Andrew Johnson (followed Lincoln. Was not ok with slavery ending).

        Joseph McCarthy (red scare).

        Trump (he wants that #1 spot).

        Nixon.

        Newt.

        Then probably John Calhoun, maybe even should be above newt.

        And then a cess pool of Dick Cheney, Moscow Mitch, John Roberts, Bill Barr, throw in George Wallace for good measure. Roger stone? Giuliani. And Stephen miller, while not important, an incredible piece of unamerican trash.