What that means though is that the liberals cannot get a majority even with Roberts.
Roberts does a trick that only chief justices can do when they flip to the other side. When they do this, they get to decide who writes the majority opinion, and usually it’s themselves. So they can join the opinion that says Trump can’t stop DACA, then write that the reason is because he forgot to dot the “I” on page 39. Of course Trump would then just have to dot the i and resubmit.
Why do chief justices employ this little trick? To make it appear that he doesn’t just blindly side with one party or the other; that he’s above politics. My point is that I don’t think he would’ve sided with the liberal justices in allowing massive voter fraud. But now even if he did, they still wouldn’t have a majority. It would be a split which means it would go down to the appellate courts, but which one? This would be a nightmare, so I don’t think Roberts would let that happen.
That's a fair point and you're right about the trick where the most senior justice on the majority side gets to pick who writes the opinion. But a 4-4 split lets the lower court ruling stand and many of the circuit courts are pretty cucked (see also: Flynn's trial). So yeah, I want a 5th vote in case Roberts cucks on us.
Maybe we can reopen churches instead of having unequal rights to assemble during Covid, too...
We NEED an RBG replacement before the election. Imagine 2020 with a 4-4 vote in the Supreme Court.
What that means though is that the liberals cannot get a majority even with Roberts.
Roberts does a trick that only chief justices can do when they flip to the other side. When they do this, they get to decide who writes the majority opinion, and usually it’s themselves. So they can join the opinion that says Trump can’t stop DACA, then write that the reason is because he forgot to dot the “I” on page 39. Of course Trump would then just have to dot the i and resubmit.
Why do chief justices employ this little trick? To make it appear that he doesn’t just blindly side with one party or the other; that he’s above politics. My point is that I don’t think he would’ve sided with the liberal justices in allowing massive voter fraud. But now even if he did, they still wouldn’t have a majority. It would be a split which means it would go down to the appellate courts, but which one? This would be a nightmare, so I don’t think Roberts would let that happen.
That's a fair point and you're right about the trick where the most senior justice on the majority side gets to pick who writes the opinion. But a 4-4 split lets the lower court ruling stand and many of the circuit courts are pretty cucked (see also: Flynn's trial). So yeah, I want a 5th vote in case Roberts cucks on us.
Maybe we can reopen churches instead of having unequal rights to assemble during Covid, too...
Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!
Aren't we up 5 to 3 in the courts. Does it matter we are 4 to 4. Wouldn't we still win a vote! Or am mistaken and we need 9 to have a vote at all.
In theory, it's 5-3, but Roberts has cucked out on us before, so what we really want is 9-0. No sense leaving it to chance.