Trump Is at War With the Whole Idea of an Independent Judiciary
It is now all but mandatory for commentators to peer into the future and predict that history will revile congressional Republicans who have tied their fate to Donald Trump’s, embracing by degrees his verbal brutality, xenophobia, corruption, lawlessness, and contempt for the very institution in which they serve.
I doubt they care. Politicians worry about the next election, not history.
Another group does care, though. Supreme Court justices serve for life, and tend to consider whether they will be remembered well or ill.
[Julian E. Zelizer: How conservatives won the battle over the courts]
How will history view Trump’s four most important judicial enablers—Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh? If the Court’s conservatives really do care about their historical legacy, they should take heed that Trump has pushed
