The Monumental Dishonesty and Appalling Bad Faith of Chief Justice Roberts’s Decision: Updated

In light of Justice Alito’s opinion today in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, relying on the 2018 Trump v. Hawaii case, I am updating this post originally posted exactly eight years ago decrying that abominable decision and opinion which Justice Alito’s opinion can be added as a worthy addition to the long list of shameful decisions and opinon emanating from this dishonorable court. Noah Feldman brilliantly exposes the moral rot underlying the horrific Supreme Court decision handed down today approving the Muslim ban, truly, as Feldman describes it, a decision that will live in infamy in the company of Dred Scott and Korematsu. Here are the key passages from Feldman’s masterful unmasking of the faulty reasoning of the Roberts opinion When Chief Justice Roberts comes to the topic of bias, he recounts Trump’s anti-Muslim statements and the history of the travel ban (this is the administration’s third version). Then he balks. “The issue before us is not whether to…