From the U.K. Guardian,
‘Rogue president’: growing number of US judges push back against Trump.
The adjective “rogue” is modifying the wrong noun in the above sentence. The Guardian‘s point, to the extent that it has one,
US district and appeals courts are increasingly rebuking Donald Trump’s radical moves on tackling crime, illegal immigration and other actions where administration lawyers or Trump have made sweeping claims of emergencies that judges have bluntly rejected as erroneous and undermining the rule of law in America.
The above was a single sentence, with but one lone comma. I’m out of breath just cutting and pasting it.
The fact that these rogue lower courts get struck down at every turn by the U.S. Supreme Court goes entirely unmentioned by the Guardian until this reference in paragraph 10,
But despite the growing number of strong lower court rulings against the administration, some may well get reversed by the supreme court given its 6-3 conservative majority, and its rulings that have markedly expanded presidential powers.
We’ve already been witness, more than once, to the spectacle of a district judge’s opinion getting struck down by a higher court, then reinstated by the rogue judge, only to have it struck down a second time.
The Guardian tracks down some left-wing law professors and others to argue that Trump is the problem. But they will not win in the end.
