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Court 'legislating from the bench'
Los Angeles Times
|July 05, 2026
Re "Justices hand the president more unchecked power," Opinion Voices, June 30.
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Is the John G. Roberts court working for the Trump administration? Is the unitary executive theory a cryptic, euphemistic term for the word "king"? In so many of the important decisions made by this extremist court, the answer appears to be a resounding yes.
This court appears to make decisions that fly in the face of maintaining a civil society, common sense, majority societal opinion, precedent and democracy itself.
This story is from the July 05, 2026 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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