The Supreme Court Created a More Powerful President

CNN: “The justices and their law clerks greeted Trump with collective apprehension eight years ago. Liberal or conservative, they wondered what to expect next. Today, no mystery exists as to what Trump is all about – or whether the Supreme Court majority is mostly with him.”

“The bench has been remade in his image. Trump appointed three of the current nine justices during his first term (Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett). Two other justices on the right wing, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, were galvanized by the Trump effect.”

“Whatever guardrails were in place from Congress and Trump’s Cabinet in his first term have been lowered; the question for the Supreme Court is whether any of his moves will be a bridge too far.”