The Supreme Court docket truthfully couldn’t do extra to provide President Donald Trump all the pieces he needs.
It has comprehensively kneecapped the decrease courts, each by overturning them relentlessly—and sometimes with out clarification—and by severely limiting the reduction they will award.
It has given him congressional energy of the purse, letting him refuse to spend cash duly allotted by Congress.
It has supported his firing spree of the heads of impartial businesses—which, you understand, makes them probably not all that impartial.
Now you would possibly assume that, for the reason that Supreme Court docket is Trump’s Massive Cool Good friend, Trump’s smaller, much less cool mates would even have an in on the nation’s highest court docket. Actually, what is the level in spending time with a mercurial, petty toddler madman like Trump if you happen to can’t run to the Supreme Court docket for all your individual wants?
Jeffrey Epstein’s affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell tried and didn’t get her conviction overturned on the Supreme Court docket.
Nicely, on Monday, the Supreme Court docket upset not one however two of the lesser denizens in Trump’s orbit.
First, it refused to listen to Laura Loomer’s defamation swimsuit in opposition to Fb. Positive, throughout the confines of the Trump administration, she’s extremely highly effective—principally a one-woman funhouse mirror model of HR, getting everybody she doesn’t like fired. However the truth that she’s someway secretly in command of nationwide safety staffing doesn’t imply that the Supreme Court docket has to entertain her dumb lawsuit.
Second, the Supreme Court docket refused to listen to convicted intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s enchantment to overturn her conviction, regardless of the Trump administration giving her particular therapy in change for her cooperation all through Trump’s ongoing Epstein scandal.
Earlier this yr, the court docket additionally proved unwilling to permit Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to do no matter he needs relating to immigration, even because it bends over backward to take away any restrictions on Trump’s energy in that area. It refused to overturn a decrease court docket determination hanging down a part of a Florida state legislation that made it a criminal offense for undocumented immigrants to enter the state.
Within the close to future, the Supreme Court docket may also must determine whether or not to listen to right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ problem to the $1.4 billion judgment in opposition to him within the lawsuit introduced by Sandy Hook mother and father who Jones defamed for years. And truthfully, I’m betting in opposition to Jones on this one.
The Supreme Court docket’s conservatives have been completely happy to maintain rewarding Trump for his conduct, however apparently that largesse doesn’t lengthen to caring for the barnacles who’ve hooked up themselves to the rotting underbelly of Trump and his administration.
Thank God for small favors.
