I have to say, the Supreme Court has been an embarrassment to our founders, just to have immunity for any president, whoever it might be, and to do so and take forever to do it so that justice could not be addressed one way or another.
Nancy Pelosi, in her interview with the New York Times, finds a colorful way of pointing to the partisan corruption of the Republican majority on the United States Supreme Court. She says nothing more about the Roberts Court. In addition to Trump v. United States, utterly unmoored from the Constitution of the United States, she could have cited a series of other shameful decisions that appear much more tightly bound to partisan loyalty, than to adherence to our country's founding document. A modest handful of these decisions:
These decisions all had this in common: Each of them required overturning precedents going back decades. Every majority opinion appealed to judicial precepts invented without textual support from the Constitution or Congressional legislation by the justices to smooth the way to overturning precedent.
All the cases were decided with majorities composed exclusively of Republican-appointed justices with Democratic-appointed justices in the minority. All of decisions advantaged the policy positions of the Republican Party and disadvantaged the interests of the Democratic Party and its constituents.
I've written about most of these decisions. I won't say more now. But what the former Speaker said about the immunity decision is true as well of each of these decisions (and many others). The Roberts Court is corruptly partisan. The mission of the current majority on the Court, which it has pursued aggressively, is to advance the interests of the contemporary Republican Party. In this effort, it frequently treads a path unrestrained by the Constitution, by past precedent, and by legislation passed my majorities in Congress.