Alito and Clarence Thomas are the main reasons we need Supreme Court term limits.
Alito has long given off an air of vexation, even as he is regularly in the majority with his conservative ideology.
But when Alito sent his draft opinion around to colleagues several weeks later, his majority began to crumble.
Alito appeared weary of it all by that last day.
The immunity decision is the end of any plausible deniability SCOTUS had to being an impartial body. Roberts is a disgrace.
Roberts made no serious effort to entice the three liberal justices for even a modicum of the cross-ideological agreement that distinguished such presidential-powers cases in the past. He believed he could persuade people to look beyond Trump.
He upended constitutional norms, enlarged the institution of the presidency and gave Trump a victory that bolstered his litigating position even beyond the case at hand…
He, like Justice Brett Kavanaugh who served George W. Bush, perhaps considered the possible legal vulnerability from episodes such as the Iran-contra affair in the Reagan years or the Bush-era torture memos for interrogations after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Roberts made clear that he worried about routine prosecutions of ex-presidents and “a cycle of factional strife,” as he put it.