Look silly? Six justices don’t care.
At “Courting Ridicule” (snyder.substack.com), Timothy Snyder warns that the issue of Trump’s eligibility for office risks the Supreme Court’s “mak[ing] itself ridiculous.” “We stand on the threshold of comedy already.” Too late; ominous-yet-funny has been a feature of the Court’s jurisprudence for years. Snyder highlights the “originalism” and “intentionalism” (a/k/a “textualism”), which form the thinking, […]