John Roberts has a sad, because people aren’t happy with the Supreme Court ruling he helped craft that allows ex-presidents to claim immunity from prosecution.

From CNN:

Roberts was shaken by the adverse public reaction to his decision affording Trump substantial immunity from criminal prosecution. His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency.

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Colleagues and friends who saw him said he looked especially weary, as if carrying greater weight on his shoulders.

But of course, the decision was completely bogus, giving almost king-like protections to ex-presidents. It’s perhaps one of the worst decisions in U.S. history (aside from those that justified the enslavement of human beings and other atrocities) because it defies one of the most important aspects of our system of government: that no person is above the law.

More from CNN’s report:

Dissenting justices said the majority’s reasoning flew in the face of established precedent that would hold a president accountable.

“Relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom about the need for ‘bold and unhesitating action’ by the President, the Court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the liberal dissenters.

Law professors excoriated the majority’s reasoning, and Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz, writing in the New York Review of Books, went so far as to compare the decision to the Dred Scott case. He declared Trump v. United States “the most sweeping judicial reconstruction of the American presidency in history.”

Roberts appears to be mindful of his own legacy as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Unfortunately for him, his legacy is an anti-democratic, anti-justice one that puts more power in the hands of elites and oligarchs, at the expense of ordinary people.

Citizens United. Dismantling the Voting Rights Act. Presidential immunity. How else should we view the Roberts Court?

Sorry, Johnny — it’s not us, it’s you. Them’s the breaks.

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