The amazing thing about Politico’s story on Thursday by global editor-in-chief John F. Harris and senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein about a couple of Trump cases heading to the Supreme court is the lack of detailed discussions of the legal aspects involved in “John Roberts, Donald Trump and the ghosts of Bush v. Gore.”
Why? Because Harris and Gerstein are promoting the highly disingenuous idea that Chief Justice John Roberts, who they claim has a court credibility problem, should steer his fellow justices to deliver a split decision because of PR optics. I kid you not.
John Roberts has spent his 18 years as chief justice on a campaign to instill public confidence that the Supreme Court of the United States is on the level — committed to interpreting and applying the law in a principled and dispassionate way.
During that time, it’s become…
