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QOTD: Chief Justice John Roberts -- Digby
https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/08/qotd-chief-justice-john-roberts-2/In a fireside chat with Judge Lawrence Vilardo of the New York Western District:
I’ll bet Stephen Miller had a full blown tantrum when he heard that.
It sounds as though Roberts, and perhaps some of the other members of the Supremes, are not amused by Trump’s assertion that he, and only he, will interpret the law — or ignore it at will.
“In our Constitution, judges and the judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law — and strike down, obviously, acts of Congress or acts of the President. And that innovation doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent. Its job is to obviously decide cases — but in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or of the executive. And that does require a degree of independence.”
I’ll bet Stephen Miller had a full blown tantrum when he heard that.
It sounds as though Roberts, and perhaps some of the other members of the Supremes, are not amused by Trump’s assertion that he, and only he, will interpret the law — or ignore it at will.