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Supreme Court Goes Out In Blaze Of Mendacity

Textualism and Originalism evaporate in face of partisan objectives.

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The U.S. Supreme Court Building

(Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg)

The Supreme Court closed out its season, sidestepping text, precedent, and history — the trifecta! — to invent a new form of immunity to bail out Donald Trump. Weird, because so many of them were asked about this precise issue under oath and offered very different analysis. We also got January 6 legalized — over the fiery dissent of Amy Coney Barrett — the foundation of the administrative state thrown into chaos — and a blessing for anyone who wants to make it illegal to be homeless.