Ironic: New Term of U.S. Supreme Court has begun

[David Lockmiller]

“Two Justices Clash on Congress’s Power Over Supreme Court Ethics”
by Adam Liptak, New York Times, August 26, 2023

[ironic: “using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning” (dictionary.com)]

As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, John G. Roberts Jr. was tartly dismissive of the Supreme Court’s long summer break, which stretches from the end of June to the first Monday in October.

“Only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren,” he wrote in 1983, “are expected to and do take the entire summer off.”

On the other hand, the young lawyer wrote, there is an upside to the break: “We know that the Constitution is safe for the summer.”

Personal observation:

It is “ironic” that John G. Roberts Jr. is now Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

In 2023, the Constitution was “safe for the summer.”

Now, as of October 2, 2023, the beginning of the 2023-2024 term of the United States Supreme Court, the Constitution is once again “unsafe.”