The Supreme Court rejected a wild appeal that put separation of powers involving prosecutors in the spotlight. Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh objected. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
The two Trump appointees observed that “the prosecution in this case broke a basic constitutional promise essential to our liberty. In this country, judges have no more power to initiate a prosecution of those who come before them than prosecutors have to sit in judgment of those they charge.” The Constitution, Gorsuch wrote for the duo, “does not tolerate what happened here.”
Yet, a majority of the court implicitly thinks the Constitution tolerates what happened here. It takes four justices to hear a case and the vote isn’t public, so all we know for sure is that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh wanted the court to take it. Per usual practice, the majority offered no explanation for rejecting the appeal.he has split with other justices in favor of criminal defendants. It’s more surprising to see Kavanaugh but not any of the Democratic appointees on this side of the split.
It might have less to do with defendants’ rights and more to do with the separation of powers generally. That issue has split the court more politically — for example, when it comes to administrative action that Republicans might strike down or make harder to carry out on separation-of-powers grounds. Recall the arguments in the
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