These are wild times for the judiciary. Michael Scherer in The Atlantic raves about “The Anti-Trump Strategy That’s Actually Working: Lawsuits, lawsuits, and more lawsuits.” Lawrence Hurley at NBC News gets judges to knock the Supreme Court anonymously: “In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court’s handling of Trump cases: Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary against external criticism.” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson herself blasts the Court’s majority and its jurisprudence as “Calvinball” in which “there are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
These are all signs that the Court has hard times ahead. Its institutional capital could be seriously at risk.
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