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[Opinion] John Roberts is to blame for Trump challenge of federal courts: analysis

Chief Justice John Roberts warned that the system of checks and balances is undermined when federal court rulings are disregarded, as mentioned in his 2024 year-end report.
Donald Trump and his allies criticized federal judges who blocked his executive orders.
Sabrina Haake argues that Trump's actions disregard the federal government's judicial and legislative branches and partly blames Chief Justice John Roberts for the current situation.
Haake cautions that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. The United States encourages abuse of presidential power, allowing Trump to act without accountability.

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John Roberts is to blame for Trump challenge of federal courts: analysis

In his 2024 year-end report, conservative U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned that the United States' system of checks and balances is undermined when federal court rulings are blatantly disregarded. But after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the president and some of his allies —including Vice President JD Vance, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and SpaceX/Tesla/X.com CEO Elon Musk — angrily railed against …

5 days ago·Washington, United States

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Salon

John Roberts' Supreme Court obeyed in advance

Trump’s wrecking ball is a constitutional unravelling of the Roberts’ court’s own making

5 days ago·San Francisco, United States

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windycitytimes.com

OPINION The Roberts court obeys in advance

Sabrina Haake Within less than a month in office, the Trump administration exceeded its Article II powers, diminished the role of Congress and challenged the authority of the judiciary. Waving away his campaign pledge to lower the cost of groceries, Trump focused instead on maximal cruelty and political retribution dispersed with a wrecking ball. Article I of the Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the power to establish federal agen…

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Balls and Strikes

A Brief Guide to the Trump Nominations Fights to the Federal Courts of Appeals

If there’s a silver lining to the first few lawless weeks of Trump 2.0, it’s that new judicial vacancies have been slow to come in. As I noted in the last installment of this column, President Donald Trump faces an uphill battle to replicate his first-term numbers—partly because fewer judges will be eligible to retire this time around, and also because judges appointed by Democrats seem to sense the very real danger of letting a convicted frauds…

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