Ian Millhiser
Senior Correspondent
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This is what happens after four years under an insurrectionist president. It will get much worse if he gets eight.
The justices are quietly quitting their day jobs as judges, even as they become more and more political.
It’s unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if they’ll just delay his trial so long that it doesn’t matter.
The justices already effectively gave Trump what he wants in his Supreme Court immunity case.
The fight over “ghost guns” is back before the justices.
But it’s not yet clear they’ve settled on a rationale for doing so.
Grants Pass v. Johnson is probably going to end badly for homeless people, but it’s not yet clear how broad the Court’s decision will be.
This case is about delaying his trial, and the GOP-controlled Supreme Court has given him everything he could reasonably hope for and more.
Grants Pass v. Johnson could make the entire criminal justice system far crueler. It also tests the limits of judicial power.
Most of the justices seem to want to make it harder to prosecute January 6 rioters.