sanitation@lemmy.radio to politics @lemmy.world · 7 days agoThis was John Roberts’ plan all along: The chief justice has declared that the Court is not political. The facts — and his own history — say otherwisewww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up1181arrow-down10
arrow-up1181arrow-down1external-linkThis was John Roberts’ plan all along: The chief justice has declared that the Court is not political. The facts — and his own history — say otherwisewww.salon.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to politics @lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 days ago Shouldn’t he have said We’re simply not part of the political process.? Nah, that would lose him the wriggle room his weasel words gave him. The way he said it is technically true as long as they’re ANYTHING except a part of the political process. Which they aren’t, but that’s MUCH harder to affirmatively prove than “political at all”.
Nah, that would lose him the wriggle room his weasel words gave him.
The way he said it is technically true as long as they’re ANYTHING except a part of the political process.
Which they aren’t, but that’s MUCH harder to affirmatively prove than “political at all”.