How Will Chief Justice Roberts Split The Baby In Dellinger?
I know it is conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court will overrule Humphrey’s Executor. As I joked on a recent panel, Humphrey’s Executor, like William Humphrey, is dead. (And I have his death certificate to prove it.) Yet, I am not so sure the Court will actually pull the trigger on Humphrey’s Executor. In early February, I wrote that Roberts and Justice Barrett would save Humphrey’s Executor as a way to repudiate Trump himself. They might overrule the case at some future time. But not in the first few months of the Trump Administration. That would be seen as an unconditional surrender to the new regime.
But how can the Chief Justice salvage the situation? What will be the John Roberts Blue Plate Special? There are so many classics! Giving Congress another chance to revise the Voting Rights Act. Upholding the individual mandate as a tax on the uninsured. Allowing states to opt into the Medicaid Expansion. Blocking the rescission of DACA until the government considers the reliance interests. Blocking the census question until the government takes further action. Blocking the congressional subpoena for Trump’s tax returns until it follows some incoherent test. Ruling that the eviction moratorium is unlawful, but giving the Administration a chance to stop enforcing it. And so on. Roberts’s legacy will be a series o
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