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SCOTUS Waking Up to the Danger they (and the rest of us) are in? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-20
Raw Story has an important piece out about how SCOTUS (or at least 7 of the 9 Justices) may finally be realizing the danger the Trump agenda poses not just to their own power, but the whole "Rule of Law" concept that has traditionally helped define the US:
The Supreme Court is clued in to Donald Trump's plan to undercut their power, an ex-prosecutor said on Saturday.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance over the weekend posted an essay explaining the various deportation cases in which Trump's administration is involved. As part of that explainer, Vance sounded the alarm about what she sees as Trump's agenda.
"Trump is trying to break the government. To control all its levers, he needs a complicit judiciary to go along with a complacent Congress," she wrote on Substack. She then added, "The Supreme Court seems to have an inkling of the fix they’ve put themselves in, with Trump trying to accumulate power at the courts’ expense."
Vance went "into the weeds" to describe the numerous deportation cases involving the Trump administration, and then issued a clarification:
"But keep in mind that while the substance of this dispute centers on the policy goal of deporting people Trump calls criminal illegal aliens, it is also a vehicle this administration is using to undercut the ability of the courts to act as a check on the executive branch and make it easier for Trump to range beyond the authority the Constitution affords to the president."
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She then concluded, "I’m tempted to point out that the Supreme Court brought this upon itself, with the ruling in [J.G.G. v. Trump], but that would be petty on my part." J.G.G. is the case in which "the ACLU challenged the government’s deportation of two planeloads of Venezuelans to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act," according to Vance.
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