Kavanaugh says no one has too much power in US system. Critics see Supreme Court bowing to Trump
Invoking the list of grievances against King George III that the nation’s founders included in the Declaration of Independence, Kavanaugh said Thursday the framers of the Constitution were set on avoiding the concentration of power.
“And the framers recognized in a way that I think is brilliant, that preserving liberty requires separating the power. No one person or group of people should have too much power in our system,” Kavanaugh said at an event honoring his onetime boss, Kenneth Starr, a former federal judge and solicitor general celebrated by conservatives who died in 2022…l…
“Basically, the Supreme Court has handed the country to Trump,” said J.W. LaStrape, the head of the Baylor University Democrats who was among the protesters.
“BK- Trump Flunky,” one banner said. “Shame on You. No One is Above the Law,” a placard read in a reference to the court’s 2024 decision, which Kavanaugh joined, that helped Trump avoid prosecution for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The court’s liberal justices also have objected to the conservatives’ repeated votes in favor of Trump’s emergency appeals to the Supreme Court, including the most decision this week to allow the resumption of sweeping immigration operations in Southern California.
And from the opinion the other day from SCOTUS that essentially says Trump’s thugs can racially profile Americans
Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Apologia Is Bad and Embarrassing
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down a one-page order that greenlit federal immigration officers’ use of blatant racial profiling when conducting armed raids in the Los Angeles area. A lower court had temporarily barred ICE from detaining people based solely on factors like “they are speaking Spanish” or “they are day laborers waiting outside Home Depot in the morning.” By blocking that lower court order, the members of the Court’s conservative supermajority have once again used the shadow docket to give their very favorite president everything for which he asks. Only the three liberals noted their dissent.
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work in a low wage job,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She went on to describe the “indignities” of a ruling that functionally requires Latino people to carry enough documents to answer questions to the satisfaction of masked thugs who cannot stop beating the hell out of people for any reason or no reason at all. “The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status,” she said.
As is usually the case with this Court’s pro-Trump shadow docket jurisprudence, the majority did not explain its decision. But one justice, Brett Kavanaugh, wrote a concurring opinion only for himself, which contains—and here I apologize for the legal jargon—some of the stupidest shit I have ever encountered in the U.S. Reporter. Over the course of ten pages, Kavanaugh fumbles his way through the sort of legal and factual analysis that a second-year law student would find a little embarrassing, laced with the affected earnestness of someone whose only conception of hardship is when his vacation home’s cleaning crew gets stuck in traffic. I honestly wonder if none of the other conservatives joined it because, although they agree with the bottom-line result, none of them wanted their names publicly associated with this vapid dreck.
