A Conservative Court and Trump’s Own Appointees Declare Their Independence
Posted on AllSides July 10th, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON — At his campaign rally last month in Tulsa, Okla., President Trump ranked his Supreme Court appointments among his biggest achievements. “Two great Supreme Court judges!” he boasted. “So, we have two justices of the Supreme Court, Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, they’re great. They are — they’re great.”
He might not have felt so warmly on Thursday after Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh categorically dismissed his claim to “absolute immunity” from investigators seeking his tax returns. In a pair of far-reaching rulings, Mr. Trump’s two appointees...
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