Nina Totenberg Doesn’t Know Shit Right Now

And once again, we don’t have to guess which side this leak is coming from: pic.twitter.com/y6y2KmjOD5

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 11, 2022

It’s not just the tweet, it’s the quote from the “conservative lawyer” indicating the long knives are out for Roberts.

Forget the peaceful protests outside the Justices’ houses (protest, especially peaceful protest, is as American as cherry pie, but we aren’t allowed to speak approvingly of it). The protests that matter are coming from inside the chambers.

“There is a price to be paid for what [Chief Justice Roberts] did” by voting to uphold the Affordable Care Act??

And that price is the destruction of #SCOTUS’s (remaining) integrity?

What a stunning statement for *anyone* “close to several conservative Justices” to make. pic.twitter.com/Vj1atscSCY

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 11, 2022

That "threat to democracy” Trump supposedly poses if he runs again, is already here. But it’s actually a threat to the republic.