For some unexplained reason, the U.S. Supreme Court uncharacteristically has failed to take any action on Donald Trump’s lawyers’ emergency filings related to a Manhattan grand jury’s subpoena of Trump tax returns, effectively thwarting part of the investigation. CNN reports, The Supreme Court is still sitting on Trump’s tax returns, and justices aren’t saying why: The … Read more
Donald Trump’s attempt to manipulate census data to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional reapportionment, and rushing the census deadline last fall during a coronavirus pandemic produced a deeply flawed census, resulting in his administration’s missing the January deadline to get that census data to Congress. Data snags cause Trump to miss giving Congress census data: … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court heard the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act aka “Obamacare” a week after Election Day in November. A collection of Republican state attorneys general relied on the bogus legal theory of inseverability, claiming that since the GOP tax act of 2017 repealed the individual mandate in an act of political sabotage, … Read more
With all the other crazy shit that happened on January 6, this story did not receive nearly the attention that it deserved. Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and a right-wing nut lobbyist, was a cheerleader for the seditious insurrection to overturn the election and American democracy on January 6 (that … Read more
Donald Trump’s post-election legal strategy was always to get a case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in which “his court” would overturn the will of the voters and award him another four years as president. If it had come down to just one state, like Florida in Bush v. Gore in 2000, his … Read more