Former President Donald Trump’s upcoming Supreme Court case, which will consider whether he incited the January 6, 2021 insurrection and can be disqualified from returning to the White House, has shed light on his mixed record with the Court.
Despite appointing three conservative justices, his administration faced significant losses in court battles, including the rejection of a Texas lawsuit aiming to overturn election results and the allowance of access to his tax records and presidential documents.
Trump’s influence on the Court, particularly in reshaping its conservative majority and his impact on abortion rights, has been highlighted by his critics, along with the potential implications of future Supreme Court nominations.
“I’m not happy with the Supreme Court,” Trump said. “They love to rule against me.”
“Whatever the politics of members of this Supreme Court, the Court has a track record in cases involving Donald Trump of standing strong for oversight and accountability and for checks on his abuses of power,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics president Noah Bookbinder said. “Given that, we expect the court to give this case a fair hearing and to decide it based on the facts and the law.”
“It’s not obvious to me where there’d be some kind of `everyone-gets-something-ruling’ that might draw justices from both ends of the bench. And I feel like that’s what we need right now. What we need is the court to speak in a way that is not going to further exacerbate the political tensions at the moment,” University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck said.
“The next election is so important for the Supreme Court and people have not focused on that yet, because very likely, if Trump wins, Alito and Thomas retire and are replaced with much younger and even crazier right-wing judges,” former President Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau said.
“He describes the Dobbs decision as a ‘miracle,'” Biden said. “But for American women, it’s a nightmare.” Trump “doesn’t have a clue about the power of women in America.”
Trump said justices “rule against me so much” to look impartial since “the story is that they’re my puppets.”
“And now the only way they can get out of that because they hate that it’s not good in the social circuit. And the only way they get out is to rule against Trump,” he said. “So let’s rule against Trump. And they do that.”
“Republican Judges are very often afraid to do the right thing,” Trump wrote.
“They go out of their way to show they are totally impartial,” he wrote, “to the point of making really bad and unfair decisions.”
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