Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Trump-appointed judge delivers the goods for her patron
Trump’s former attorney general, William P. Barr, whose own efforts to protect the president could lead to congressional scrutiny.
Cannon’s legal antics come at an awkward time for those — led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. — who scold anyone questioning the judiciary’s legitimacy in the wake of the unparalleled efforts by Trump, Sen. Mitch McConnell when he was majority leader, and the conservative Federalist Society to stuff the courts with conservatives.earlier this month that “simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for criticizing the legitimacy of the court.
If McConnell and his allies had really cared about judicial legitimacy, they would not have denied Merrick Garland of even a hearing when President Barack Obama named him to the Supreme Court more than seven months before the 2016 election. Nor would conservatives have turned around four years later and rushed Justice Amy Coney Barrett through the Senate just eightbefore Trump lost the 2020 election. You can’t engage in nakedly aggressive power politics and then insist: “Nothing happening here, it’s all on the level, move on.”
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