Is this "census" issue some type of showdown between Trump and Roberts?

[kentuck]

And it's really all part of the plan to take over all three Branches of Government?

What can the Supreme Court do if Trump issues an "executive order"?

I suppose the whole Court could rule upon it? How would they rule? Nobody knows.

When all is said and done, the Congress is the only sheriff in town. It is up to the Congress to hold the Executive accountable to the laws of our country.

If they don't do it, then nobody does.

No one should assume that Robert Mueller will do the predictable thing and define exactly what his report says? In the end, he may let the Republicans and Donald Trump define it for him?

We simply don't know.

Will we be a country of men or will we be a country of laws?

A country of men will no longer be a democracy. It will be something else.

[pangaia]

1. The women seem to be coming to the rescue....

[rurallib]

2. With Trump, every issue can be used for brinksmanship.

Doesn't make any difference who the opponent is - friend, foe or other - his whole world is win or lose. People should have known when Roberts wrote that pansy-assed opinion that he put himself square in Trump's sights.

And the issue is more than the census question - it is also whether the Trump admin can intimidate the CJ and SCOTUS. On this one my bet is that Roberts folds like a cheap suit.

[kentuck]

3. Roberts may have been fearful if the full Court were to vote...

They might agree with Trump?

He wanted to try and maintain some semblance of the balance of powers.

Very interesting...

[maxrandb]

4. More than likely it's dickwad Roberts

trying to help shepherd Donnie Shit for Brains racist, mysogenyst, fascist plans through a legal needle eye.

Roberts is as fucking racist as Donnie Dollhands is... he's just trying to help him navigate the legal hurdles.

[struggle4progress]

5. +

[splat]

6. Executive orders do not override Supreme Court decisions

He'd still have to come up with a better reason, and the longer they ponder the less likely it flies.

[kentuck]

7. One would think that to be the case...

But these are not normal times...