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The insulting hot-head known as US Person, wants to direct your attention to two leaked memos from the Supreme Court that show how Chief Justice John Roberts is the chief MAGA Justice. He engineered three critical wins for Don the Con behind the curtain of impartial authority, ripped away for good after the release of these communications.
In February he sent a memo to his colleagues excoriating the district and appellate court opinions rejecting Trump's claim of presidential immunity that would protect him from the criminal prosecution for his role in the January 6th Insurrection. Not only did he say that the Court should take up his appeal but also offered his preferred outcome. He told his fellow Justices, “I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently” from the appellate court's analysis which he view as inadequate. As a result of his view the Court handed down a wide immunity grant unprecedented in US history, in effect making the President above the law.
John Roberts wrote all three opinions in favor of Don 'Legit': the immunity decision; the limiting of obstruction of official proceedings crime to documentation ; and rejecting state's barring of candidates based on the 14th Amendment insurrection clause. In the Fischer obstruction case, Roberts removed Samuel Alito from the case just days after it was made public that the Alito household was flying a US flag upside down which is a recognized distress signal and a symbol of the Stop the Steal movement after the January 6th riot. Roberts then sided with the liberal minority to push a decison on immunity to before the election. it is noteworthy that Roberts cited Alexander Hamilton in is opinion. It is considered a tortued piece of legal scholarship unteather to the Constitution in an attempt to prevent Trump ecoming the first US president to be convicted of a treasonous crime while in office. The fact is that Hamilton was a monarchist, flat out. When the constitutional convention took place in Philadelphia in 1787, Hamilton advocated not just for a strong, independent executive, but a return to monarchy. He knew that proposition would not get pass the other delegates so he settleed for the flawed compromise that wa hammered out of the secret deliberations. In his book, The Hamilton Scheme, hisotrian William Hogeland details the philosophical tension, Marx would have called it a dialectic, between egalitarian impulses* and the control of an interstate oligarchy that existed in the colonies even before 1776. That dialectic continues to this very day between those who would restrain "The Democracy" with a authoritarian government. Men like Roberts are instrumental in the effort to finally bring this about two hundred fifty years later. Moderate centrist? NOT.