As the clock ticks down on SCOTUS's 30-day delay, the administration is blocked from enforcing the executive order under at least one classwide preliminary injunction.
The takeaway is the SCOTUS has turned court procedural rules into Calvinball. Calvinball rules mean heads The Executive Branch wins, tails Checks and Balances lose.
No legal eagle I - obviously - but my theory is that Trump’s handlers will go only so far in backing his petty revenge cases … saving the Big Guns to litigate to “more important” (to them) Project 2025 defense.
I’ll admit that I don’t understand much of this. How can any President eliminate via an EO, a Constitutional amendment?
I mean, it's unconstitutional. And yet, here we are.
I've discussed that in earlier reports, but I added a sentence to that end up top lest there be any doubt.
The takeaway is the SCOTUS has turned court procedural rules into Calvinball. Calvinball rules mean heads The Executive Branch wins, tails Checks and Balances lose.
No legal eagle I - obviously - but my theory is that Trump’s handlers will go only so far in backing his petty revenge cases … saving the Big Guns to litigate to “more important” (to them) Project 2025 defense.
related to birthright citizenship - this actually happened in DC court before judge Reyes, I promise you, this will make you smile :
Ana Reyes (Alter v Trump 25-cv-00480) Alter v Trump, we are not powerless, doomed to scream into a void
https://randoliberal.substack.com/p/the-courts-failure-not-mine-imo?r=u47dz
Thanks Chris for the update.