“This arrangement, now in place for 236 years, has served the country well,” Roberts wrote in the report, which was released by #SCOTUS hours before the start of the new year.

Roberts’ history-heavy statement made no mention of #Trump, nor the intense conflict that has cropped up between federal #courts & the #WhiteHouse since his 2nd inauguration nearly a year ago.

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#Trump has questioned the legitimacy of #courts that paused his policies & called for the impeachment of #judges who ruled against him.

Many of those cases have wound up on #SCOTUS’ emergency, or “shadow,” docket, where Trump has often found a more receptive audience among the court’s 6-justice conservative majority.

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Many of those decisions have overturned lower courts with little-to-no explanation, prompting sharp & unusual criticism from a few lower court #judges….

#SCOTUS has allowed the #Trump admin in recent months to cancel foreign #aid & #PublicHealth funding; temporarily fire the leadership of many #independent agencies; stop & interrogate people about their #immigration status based on their apparent #ethnicity, #language or presence at a particular location;

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