Finally—The Court as It Should Be!
The current term of the Supreme Court has delivered a lot “huh???” moments, with the Court botching cases, dodging cases, and yielding a lot of decisions with very strange splits among the justices with little or no ideological clarity. But as Paul noted earlier, today we finally got two major rulings against leftist totems by the 6 – 3 split we’ve long been promised—on voting rights/safeguarding ballot integrity, and protecting donors from state harassment.
I think it is possible we may start to see more of this next term, because of one aspect of how the Court works that has drawn little notice. It involves Chief Justice John Roberts, who is rightly a source of frustration for his penchant for dodging tough cases, contradicting his own prior votes and language on similar cases, or ruling in the most minimalist way possible in order not to change any constitutional doctrines too dramatically.