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As soon as once more, it comes all the way down to John Roberts and Donald Trump.

It was Chief Justice Roberts, in fact, who wrote final yr’s Supreme Court docket resolution giving then-candidate Trump substantial immunity from felony prosecution. However in latest weeks, it additionally was Roberts who steered the court docket in its calibrated strategy to litigation arising from President Trump’s orders overhauling authorities – refusing to present administration attorneys the fast endorsement they sought.

Since 2017, when Trump started his first presidential time period, Roberts has been each an enabler and a restraint on Trump’s agenda.

After weeks of silence to Trump’s rants in opposition to the judiciary, Roberts was seemingly provoked on Tuesday by a heated submit referring to a federal choose presently dealing with a migrant deportation case as “crooked.” Trump declared the choose “needs to be IMPEACHED!!!”

Quickly after, Roberts issued a press release: “For greater than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment shouldn’t be an acceptable response to disagreement regarding a judicial resolution. The conventional appellate assessment course of exists for that goal.”

For US district court docket judges, presently on the entrance traces of the Trump litigation, Roberts’ protection was heartening, if overdue.

For retired Justice Stephen Breyer, the assertion met the second.

“It’s informative. It’s quick. It doesn’t blame anybody or reward anybody. It says if you happen to don’t like what the choose holds, enchantment,” Breyer instructed CNN, repeating, “Enchantment.”

As the highest leaders of the judicial and government branches, Roberts and Trump have now had two dramatic clashes. Roberts’ Tuesday assertion recalled the same rebuke of Trump in 2018.

Extra broadly, the episode supplied a reminder of the roles the 2 leaders – Roberts, age 70 and appointed for all times, and Trump, age 78 and starting a second time period – proceed to play in one another’s sphere and the general public eye.

Learn Biskupic’s full evaluation right here.