"But the Roberts Court could do ANYTHING" is the new "my Twitter law take is equivalent to your actual lawyer take" argument: basically, knowing anything about law is pointless because the Roberts Court could, possibly, just overturn it.
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/2 This is, of course, nonsense. Some Roberts Court decisions seem shocking -- but mostly to people who have not followed developments in the law. Those cases got to the Supreme Court for a reason, because the possibility for the particular change in law was on the radar.
/3 That doesn't mean they're right; it doesn't mean they're good. It just means that you can't say "I was shocked by this outcome and therefore any hypothetical outcome that would shock me is equally plausible." It's not.
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