I was hoping that I would feel better about the nationwide injunction decision when I woke up this morning. I don’t. If anything, I am even more alarmed than before.
The Supreme Court is sending a message to the country–we are not the resistance. We will establish new precedents to limit our powers to deal with executive overreach. We will continue to assume that the federal government is operating in good faith even when all of the evidence tells us otherwise. We will do the absolute minimum to keep Trump from trampling on the rights of vulnerable Americans. If that means chaos and massive injustice, that’s your problem, mon; you will have to find another way to solve it.
Trump is largely expanding his powers under the guise of bogus “emergencies.” This case tells us that the Court is going to acquiesce to whatever the government calls an “emergency.” Then what?
Regardless of what happens thereafter, count on Justice Barrett to wash her hands of it.