Sounded like Roberts smacked their butts on his own:
“The Trump administration repeatedly asked both the SCOTUS and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the trial through a writ of mandamus, a rarely used judicial tool allowing a higher court to overrule a lower court before a verdict is made. Roberts granted mandamus after the 9th Circuit twice turned down the writ.”
Roberts granted mandamus—————So...........
Wasn’t there a movie about mandamus in the 70s? He was an escaped slave or something, I can’t remember.