Originally published at: How the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Postal Service to overhaul mail voting in a way that threatens to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans in the upcoming election. Federal courts have repeatedly issued orders blocking…
We all know what will happen, don’t we? Long after the lawlessness of Trump is allowed to occur, the MAGA 6 on the Supreme Court will issue a decision saying it’s illegal, but the ruling is prospective anyway since it already occurred. The Trump regime gets away with their lawlessness but any future Democratic president can’t do it.
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Contrast this with their instant reversal of Biden initiatives that the conservative vandals didn’t like..
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The regime’s “move fast and break things” tactics emulate the style of our tech overlords; people in power have found out that exercising power quickly, without regard for laws and norms, puts you ahead of any rules-based attempts to stop you. It’s the cultural style now. Just do it; seeking approval is for losers. And if you’re a powerful white man, you will face no consequences.
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“As per usual” appears twice in this piece. Does Talking not have an editor?
That’s just the extension of the Atwater/Reed/Delay/Gingrich Young Republican MO, talk fast, go from one baseless talking point/lie/issue machine gun style until the opposition loses track and loses gas and loses heart.
Brain cancer, got one.
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Really, that’s your take-away from this article?
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We all know SCOTUS is broken, that racist oligarchs have taken it over & raped blind justice to death. Hakeem Jeffries meets with Jared Kushner to talk about affordability as a storied institution becomes a tool of the oligarchy. Sad.
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The Calvinball Court.
Anathema sit.
You seem to lack the necessary qualifications to be an editor.