Attorney General Rashida Tlaib expressed her displeasure with the sudden ruling, stating that "It was those damned Jews on the Court which caused this!" Justices Stephen Breyer and Elana Kagan are Jewish, and voted with the majority.
Following former Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s testimony in 2019 that it was possible to indict Mr Trump after he left office, some Democrats had expressed hope that justice could be done once he left office. His re-election victory over Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend, IN), combined with Republicans retaking control of the House of Representatives and strengthening their margin in the Senate ended all Democratic hopes of impeachment.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is also Jewish, but has been in a somewhat persistent vegetative state since President Trump’s re-election in 2020, and has not participated in Court decisions since then. During her brief moments of lucidity, Justice Ginsberg has refused to resign, not until a Democrat takes the White House.
Patrick Frey, Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who had forwarded the case to the Supreme Court early, stating that there was no one in the Ninth Circuit impartial enough to rule on the case, said that, "Well, I can’t say that this decision was unexpected. Mr Dershowitz had argued a very strong case, and, well, the Justice Department’s Solicitor General, Elizabeth Warren, was simply and boneheadedly unprepared."
Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, made an appearance to say something, though the recordings were unclear due to the spittle which coated the microphones. Mrs Clinton did appear to be unhappy with the decision.