Supremes in 2 cases rule 7 to 2 against the president on the rule of law

A case of congressional subpoena and a case of subpoena by the AG of New York state.

The president's lawyers argued a sitting president cannot even be investigated and is not subject to subpoenas in state courts, nor must he respond to congressional subpoenas because that's all just "presidential harassment".

The Supremes said no to them both times but, like anyone else, the president gets to fight subpoenas in court and this will likely delay at least until after the election.

Neither case seems to have touched the question whether the Justice Department doctrine, based solely on a pearl-clutcher argument that it would be bad, bad, bad, that a sitting president cannot be indicted and perhaps not even subpoenad by federal authorities is valid or not.

Are you as tired of hearing about rage as I am?

Black rage, rioters' rage, Trump's rage, the rage of his base?

Go have a fucking stroke, ragers.

Trump is tweeting in giant capital letters on this, furious at the Supremes, though Roberts did lick his butt a little in the congressional case.

Both of his appointees and John Roberts and all the liberals voted against him, only Alito and Thomas dissenting.

Supreme Court blocks congressional subpoenas for Trump's financial records

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked subpoenas from congressional Democrats for President Donald Trump's financial records.

Chief Justice John Roberts, in a 7-2 opinion, reversed a lower court decision upholding four congressional subpoenas for the records, saying that it failed to adequately account for "weighty concerns regarding the separation of powers."

But the decision pretty much told them how to do it right.

SCOTUS rules against Trump on financial records subpoena in NY criminal investigation

In the most recent time Chief Justice John Roberts has sided with the court's liberal side in a high-profile case, he wrote for the 7-2 majority, "Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude, or require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal subpoena to a sitting President."