The more I think about it, I’m wondering if Roberts is simply thinking about Marbury V Madison - and also thinking about the apocryphal statement by either Stalin or Hitler, I forget who, when presented with the popes unhappiness with their regime stating, “and how many divisions does the pope have?”
It’s like they know when they finally say no to Trump on something very important, he is going to go ahead and do it anyway and ignore them. Which will leave the high court in the same position. It was Wayback when - the court has power only because the other two branches will agree to recognize that Power. The court knows that Congress and Trump will ignore it, so maybe they are definitely afraid of losing their job. If no one cares, what the court says, they become instantly irrelevant.
And I’m not talking about all of them, just two or three of the least evil ones. Clarence will agree that Trump can rape and kill babies without any constitutional problems, so he and Sam are not gonna do anything once he tells the court to fuck off. I just wonder if three of them are worrying too much about the constitutional crisis to come when Trump says I don’t care what you say Scotus…at least about more meaningful and crisis inducing refusals than he has been.