{"id":9348,"date":"2026-06-17T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=9348"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:25:00","slug":"opinion-we-should-expect-more-from-our-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=9348","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | We Should Expect More From Our Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">I have friends who call it \u201copinionpalooza.\u201d That time in June, the Supreme Court makes a mad dash toward the end of the term, scrambling to hand down all remaining decisions on its docket and then pretending that the Constitution is safe for the summer. \u201cMy approach is, see you in September.\u201d None of us should feel safe with this Supreme Court. On the horizon are rulings on the fate of voting by mail at the state level, the future of thousands of immigrants granted humanitarian protections and the extent of the president\u2019s control of the Federal Reserve and the rest of the federal bureaucracy. \u201cThe people, united &#8230;\u201d And of course, we get the Supreme Court\u2019s judgment on birthright citizenship. This will no doubt become a landmark of constitutional law. I expect the justices to reject Donald Trump\u2019s gambit to rewrite the 14th Amendment. \u201cThat would be a devastating decision, if we lose that case.\u201d No matter what happens in these high-profile cases, don\u2019t be fooled by the attempts by pundits and analysts to \u201csanewash\u201d what the court is doing. \u201cWe\u2019re blaming the wrong branch.\u201d \u201cIt is profoundly wrong to call it or say corruption where there in fact is none.\u201d \u201cThe rulings, by and large, are so much better than they were 40 years ago.\u201d Even John Roberts has tried to \u201csanewash\u201d it. \u201cA lot of what we do is of necessity.\u201d They\u2019ll run the numbers and they\u2019ll tell you that the Supreme Court is unanimous on many cases. \u201cAs I said, more opinions are unanimous than anything else.\u201d That they\u2019re moderate, or that they don\u2019t overturn a lot of precedent, as prior courts did. We actually saw a version of this in the aftermath of the tariffs ruling. \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s tariffs have been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.\u201d \u201cA major slap at the president of the United States.\u201d \u201cAll of these people who\u2019ve been saying that this is a Supreme Court that\u2019s in the tank for Donald Trump need to take a look at the facts.\u201d We shouldn\u2019t be clapping for any of this. The Supreme Court needs to do more than just reject outlandish power grabs that threaten our democratic institutions. For example, for the first time in the Federal Reserve\u2019s history, a president has tried to fire a sitting governor. \u201cPresident Trump sent a letter telling Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, \u2018You\u2019re fired.\u2019\u201d A sort of trial run for his attempt to oust Jerome Powell. \u201cI\u2019d love to fire his [expletive]. He should be fired.\u201d Lower courts thankfully blocked this farce, and the Supreme Court needs to do the same. But preserving the Fed\u2019s independence over monetary policy shouldn\u2019t be considered an act of judicial courage. That\u2019s just the law. And preserving it is the bare minimum we should expect from the court. Same goes for birthright citizenship. \u201cThat\u2019s a good one. Birthright.\u201d It is a guarantee written into the 14th Amendment that no president should take away. Upholding this foundational promise is also the bare minimum. And it would be basic, not groundbreaking, for the Supreme Court to affirm that racial animus has no place in government. That hatred toward people of other countries shouldn\u2019t drive policymaking. \u201cAnd I say, \u2018Why is it we only take people from [expletive] countries?\u2019\u201d Another reason the Supreme Court should be awarded no points: The justices have done immense damage to our multiracial democracy. Louisiana v. Callais and its aftershock in Alabama are a stain on the court and the nation. \u201cThe Supreme Court has opened the door to a coordinated attack on Black voters across this country.\u201d The rulings represent the worst blow to Black political representation since the end of Reconstruction. \u201cAnd what this decision says is that it values partisan politics over discrimination.\u201d And these decisions are already growing legs. The Trump administration is not suggesting that the law that protects employees from workplace discrimination is unconstitutional. And I haven\u2019t even gotten into the shadow docket orders that have caused so much chaos in American life. \u201cThis week, the Supreme Court gave federal agents the green light to profile people.\u201d \u201cThe hundreds of thousands of people who currently have T.P.S. under the Haiti T.P.S. program would suddenly become eligible for deportation.\u201d \u201cTemporary hold on efforts to block the Trump administration\u2019s freeze on foreign aid funding.\u201d The supermajority Chief Justice John Roberts leads is a clear and present danger to our constitutional republic. The real legacy of this Supreme Court term is one of overreach, Black disempowerment and a frenzied redistricting madness. \u201cThey\u2019re rigging this election to try to win.\u201d We\u2019ll be lucky if we still have a functioning democracy come November, with even a semblance of checks and balances. But the nation truly needs that. This is why any eventual attempt to fix what Trump and the justices have broken will require deep structural reforms, up to and including fixing the court itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have friends who call it \u201copinionpalooza.\u201d That time in June, the Supreme Court makes a mad dash toward the end of the term, scrambling to hand down all remaining&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":9349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[358,3049,57,357],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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