Thread by @RonColeman

The "careful, cautious" incrementalism of the Roberts Court is coming home to now.

SCOTUS has avoided every constitutional question, waited forever for just the right case to make just the right tiny point, and obsessed over its supposed "institutional" integrity.

Result? >

States and cities pass laws plainly premised on racial discrimination.

Activists repeatedly sue a bakery into oblivion because SCOTUS is tired of dealing with them.

Circuit courts rule with high-handed lawlessness -

all because everyone understands: >

There is virtually no national high court.

And thus there is virtually no national law. Different law in different circuits governs scores of significant substantive and procedural federal legal issues. Every federal statute and rule of procedure changes with the longitude. >

Worse than this, though, in many situations there is no law - or representative government - at all.

By repeatedly deferring to states' police powers throughout 2020 and 2021, saving its few sniffs of disapproval for extreme, narrow cases, SCOTUS enshrined dictatorial rule. >

By now hundreds or thousands of municipalities, almost every state and innumerable federal agencies have expanded their power to bypass the legislative, rule making and review processes to given by fiat under the limitless and amorphous rubric of "emergency." >

It is hard to imagine any of those genies being stuffed back into their lamps.

Government doesn't work that way.

And the judicial system most assured didn't work during the crisis of 2020-22. <>

* "home to roost" 🙄