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‘Cowardice And Incoherence' Is The Legacy Of The Roberts Court

2026-07-03

[The Federalist] In his brilliant dissenting opinion eviscerating the majority’s legal gymnastics on birthplace citizenship, Justice Samuel Alito warned the court not to "adopt an erroneous interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment simply out of fear of the consequences of ’rocking the boat’ or as a reaction to current immigration policy."

But fear and politics, it seems, drove the specious legal reasoning of the "conservatives" who joined the court’s three liberals in killing President Donald Trump’s executive order ending squatter rights citizenship. A reluctance to "rock the boat" of more than a century of bad law permeates the thinking of Chief Justice John Roberts, author of the 5-4 ruling declaring unconstitutional the campaign promise Trump kept on the first day of his second term in office.

Such cowardice in guarding the Constitution has too often marked Roberts’ tenure as the chief of the nation’s high court. From his similar constitutional contortionist act in 2020 Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California to his ridiculous reinvention of the established understanding of a "tax" in playing savior to Obamacare, Roberts has sacrificed judicial courage at the twin altars of comity and continuity.

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