Supreme Court justices believe that they are "writing a rule for the ages," but their focus on hypotheticals has given yet another gift to Donald Trump.
Pundits decried the Supreme Court justices for not focusing on Donald Trump’s conduct when they heard oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case. But a legal scholar says they were just doing their job.
“Politics ain’t beanbag” Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley observed 130 years ago, and today’s US political culture, replete with extreme passions, sometimes violent rhetoric, defamation and dirty tricks, is probably as rough as it has ever been.