| The Supreme Court's Power Is Based on the Lie of Its Supremacy This article appears in theOctober 2026issue ofThe American Prospectmagazine.If you'd like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, pleasesubscribe here. Any search for the chief enabler of Donald Trump's corruption and subversion of American democracy really must lead to one and only one place: the Supreme Court. The reactionary majority, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has repeatedly bailed Trump out from his many prosecutions, enabled his wildly lawless trampling over the basic appropriations process, and''in what is for my money the worst Court decision in American history, Trump v. U.S.''explicitly immunized him from being prosecuted for breaking, in effect, any law. |