"In June 2024, a divided US supreme court handed Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card. Across 43 pages, chief justice John Roberts demolished the long-held belief that a president is not above the law. For Trump, who once bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, Christmas had come early. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, joined the majority but voiced doubt all the same."
"A year on, Trump runs amok, forever touting his enhanced powers under Article II. A lot of people are saying: Maybe we like a dictator,' he teased recently. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. Au contraire, his past self might've parried. Before returning to office, Trump said he would be a dictator on day one. Amid it all, Barrett plugs her book."
"At a recent forum hosted by Bari Weiss, founder of the Free Press, the second-most junior justice affected nonchalance. I don't know what a constitutional crisis would look like. I don't think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis. I think our country remains committed to the rule of law. I think we have functioning courts. When supreme court justices speak, utterances like I think and I don't know convey more than a modicum of doubt."
In June 2024 the Supreme Court issued a decision that effectively insulated Donald Trump from criminal consequences, with Chief Justice John Roberts undercutting the notion that a president is fully subject to ordinary criminal law. Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the majority while noting Congress retains concurrent authority to regulate presidential conduct and can criminalize official acts under Article II. One year later Trump loudly asserts expanded Article II powers and flirts with authoritarian tropes. Barrett publicly minimized the prospect of a constitutional crisis, continued promoting her book, and defended jurisprudential positions including her vote on abortion.
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