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"President Trump notched a startling legal win Friday evening, as the Supreme Court gave an early stamp of approval to a legal theory so outlandish that experts at one point predicted to TPM it wouldn’t 'get a single vote.'

The Court blessed, at the preliminary stage, Trump’s gambit to zero out money Congress already appropriated."

~ Kate Riga

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-supreme-court-pocket-rescissions-birthright-citizenship

TPM – Talking Points Memo

It’s Completely Trump’s Supreme Court Now, And He Knows It

President Trump notched a startling legal win Friday evening, as the Supreme...

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 weeks ago

"With one weird timing trick, the administration claimed, it could request that the money not be spent close enough to the end of the fiscal year that the funds would simply freeze indefinitely. The theory — called a 'pocket rescission' — is at near comical odds with the text of the Impoundment Control Act, specifically passed to restrict this exact presidential infringement upon Congress’ spending powers."

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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 weeks ago

"The order is a resounding win for Trump, further proof that the right-wing majority will find a way to expand his power no matter how flimsy the argument. The administration, in turn, is acting with the hubris of a White House that just crossed a major boundary and was congratulated for it."

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William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 weeks ago

"A number of prominent liberal court-watchers, such as law professors Lawrence Tribe and Leah Litman, pundit and author Ian Milhiser, and, at times, Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson, have ascribed the conservative majority’s receptivity to Trump shadow docket requests to rank partisanship. Much evidence lends credibility to that charge."

~ Simon Lazarus

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https://newrepublic.com/article/200614/roberts-court-shadow-docket-blowback

The New Republic

The Supreme Court’s Trump Enablers May Have Screwed Themselves

The court’s conservatives spent last term bailing out the administration with shadow docket shams. Now they must reckon with all the cans they kicked down the road.

William Lindsey :toad:

@wdlindsy@toad.social replied · 4 weeks ago

"As of this writing, the Trump Justice Department has filed 20 emergency applications with the court in its brief tenure, compared with a 16-year total of eight such applications from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, or one every other year.

This year, the court granted 18 of Trump’s requests to stay adverse lower court orders, usually over fierce dissents from liberal justices."

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