Trump’s Own Tweet Backfires on Him as Judge Delivers Harsh Loss on Fed

This pileup of bogus rationales has thrust the lower courts into a critical role, as law professor Leah Litman recently detailed on our podcast. Again and again, they’ve engaged in painstaking fact finding to establish that those rationales are, to put it in technical terms, complete and utter horseshit. The ruling invalidating the deportations carefully constructed the facts on Tren de Aragua’s supposed “invasion.” The decision blocking Trump’s strong-arming of Harvard did something similar on the specious “antisemitism” rationale.

The problem, of course, is that the Supreme Court could undo much of this. Sherrilyn Ifill demonstrates that Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion in the high court’s ruling allowing racial profiling in ICE arrests shows a stunning aversion to known facts about how arrests and detentions are playing out. The same might happen when the high court evaluates Trump’s pretexts for tariffs, the assault on Harvard, “alien enemy” deportations, and more, Litman argues: “This Supreme Court, like the Trump administration, has been all too willing to just ignore the facts.”

On the Cook affair, everyone knows exactly how the Trump-Pulte two-step works. Schiff’s lawyer, Preet Bharara, just released an extraordinary letter laying out detailed reasons why Pulte’s manipulations are corrupt and possibly illegal. Even some Republicans are fed up with Pulte. He’s running a big scam for Trump, and the whole sordid story is told in none other than Trump’s own tweet.