The Supreme Court easily could have let the lower court ruling against Trump [having presidential immunity] stand, but Roberts orchestrated a ruling that effectively pardoned Trump retrospectively and prospectively. That unprecedented and partisan edict paved the way for Trump’s return to power.
John Roberts chose to be the kingmaker, giving Trump king-like powers last year, and then this year mowing down well-founded and well-grounded temporary restraining orders [that allowed] an array of unilateral and extreme dictates to proceed — even though doing so will cause irreparable harm transgress constitutional provisions, laws passed by Congress and long-standing legal precedents.
Roberts ignored a mountain of congressional findings, thousands of pages of record showing that the Voting Rights Act needed to be reauthorized for another couple of decades, in part because there were continuing attempts to oppress black voters by white dominated state legislatures. But John Roberts disregarded those findings that he was required to defer to.
The Supreme Court is not a fact-finding body — it is supposed to defer to the factual findings of lower courts and Congress. Instead, [he] has arrogantly used his position, with the willing help of other Republican appointees, to decimate key enforcement provisions.
Roberts is not a "sober, serious" judge or person and he never was; he's as culpable for Trump's deconstruction of democracy as the parent who gives their 10 year-old a bottle of vodka at a dinner party & then wants to pretend they have no idea why the kid shit on the ping-pong table in front of everybody.
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