I always suspected that once the Supreme Court got around to it, Trump's silly legal theories would go down in flames. I believe Roberts sees his legacy and place in the history books as more important than the Party that nominated him. He's no dummy: The future is always going to be more along the lines of Progressives because human perception of time only runs in one direction. So how future legal analysts see the Roberts Court is going to be through a more liberal lens.

Soon the court has to decide on the right of congress to oversee the executive branch versus the Imperial Presidency. Right from the beginning, the founders always described checks and balances. I can't see Roberts destroying that, and those decisions will be much more devastating for Trump. These are just the warm-up.

Trump's latest silly legal theory is that anything Bolton said to him is classified. That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the whole classification system, and I think the lower court is going to scold the Justice Department lawyers for filing the prior constraint suit.