Comment: You don’t say!
N.Y. Times, Trump Suffers Day of Losses in His Retribution Campaign Against Law Firms
Comment: Just cry me a river.
Politico, If Trump Defies the Courts, It Will Backfire Badly
Comments: Despite the headline, the article mostly addresses this question: “Does the Trump administration plan to ignore or defy future court orders that it disagrees with—perhaps even an order from the Supreme Court?”
The author marshals arguments for the view that, at the end of the day, Trump will obey the courts, because he will understand and abide by his own self-interest.
The author might be right. I strongly suggest you read the piece.
I agree that, if Trump tells the Supreme Court just to pound sand, that will end the decades-long project to remake the courts into a powerful force for economic and social conservatism, all in the name of “federalism,” the Constitution, “originalism,” and “textualism.”
All hail James Madison!
But what the author does not say is that ending that decades-long Federalist Society project makes no nevermind if you plan a permanent rightwing dictatorship based on the exercise of ruthless force.
If you see our future as continuing a contest between two parties, then the Federalist Society project is important. If you see our future as fascist dictatorship, then the Federalist Society project is worth no more than a bucket of warm spit.
And let me add this: Trump is a doofus, and he has willfully surrounded himself with a coterie of doofi.
To me, the evidence strongly indicates that some of the doofuses are trying maneuver Orange Mussolini into a position where he will think he has not choice but to defy the Supreme Court.
Facing MAGA 