"While textualism and originalism were supposed to be, we were told, our touchstones for interpretation under the conservatives’ legal vision for America, we heard little of that from the court’s conservative men on Thursday when Donald Trump’s immunity claim came to the justices. Then, text and history were inconveniences.
"Arguments at the Supreme Court this week were not about law. They were about power & control. …
The warning siren was the arguments this week. The arguments from those men were evidence of a danger no longer hidden — even among the public statements of the justices of the Supreme Court — for the rule of law.
Clearly viewing that danger must be central to our understanding of where the country is at — & where it could be going."
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