Trump is canceling the rule of law—and US democracy
Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court, seemingly paradoxically, has become a force for weakening the rule of law. In 21 of the 23 appeals pressed by the Trump administration outside the ordinary channels of judicial review in its first nine months (the so-called shadow or emergency docket), the Court has affirmed the president’s power to act, often despite statutory law, until whenever it issues a definitive ruling. Incredibly, the justices even allowed the administration to disregard the spending mandates established recently by Congress, effectively gutting the most important of congressional checks on the power of the presidency.
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