I know everyone thinks they are a lawyer

2/2 Chm Neal took time to get the govt’s position locked in, giving Mnuchin enough rope to hang himself & establishing there’s no legitimate legal basis to w/hold Trump taxes. Lawsuits aren’t on an instant gratification timeline, which is frustrating but important to understand.

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 2, 2019

Because they have seen them on TeeVee; but this is exactly right.  Not that Twitter wants to hear it; responses to these tweets indicate instant gratification is the only kind of gratification, and we want it NOW!

Well, when everything isn't a dick-measuring contest about how somebody didn't "Stand UP to Trump" as if the country were a playground.  If you remember playgrounds correctly, what was of earth-shattering importance to you wasn't noticed by anybody else on the playground, and really didn't change anybody's life, including yours.  Yes, Trump is lawless and incompetent and will continue to do as he pleases because he can (how ARE those tanks getting to the Mall?  Is he going to make the military lay new railroad tracks?  Really, I'm wondering*), and that includes running roughshod over immigration and asylum laws.  We have to monitor that, push back against it as we can (the CBP is not too happy with the way they look right  now; but as AOC pointed out, almost half the agents are "bad apples."  CBP has a culture problem, not an individuals problem.), and recognize, again, this is not the gunfight at the OK Corral (which also did nothing to history except make a ripping yarn and a fictional diversion from reality).

The courts are actually moving with alacrity.  Trump insisted his language for the census had to be in place by June 30, so the Supremes ruled a few days before that deadline.  The nature of the decision left some Chicken Littles declaring the sky was still going to fall, just in September this time, rather than in July.  Oddly, the trial courts (where the matter rests, again) are not moving that fast, and the Supremes aren't making any noises about re-convening before October to give Trump what he demands.  Trump continues to insist he can delay the census, but the person who would have to do that is the Commerce Secretary, and even the GOP doesn't want to mess with the census.  They need it, too.  Besides, there won't be a case for the Supremes to take up until at least December, and really, Roberts didn't leave things that wide open.  If the DOJ was lying about the deadline of June 30, what credibility does the government have now to say "Oh, wait!  We found the real reason under this pile of memos in the back corner of an abandoned office in Maryland!"  Because that's about all they've got at this point.

And there's still the actual case out of Maryland, which is reviewing the documents of the dead government advisor.  That could prove racial animus, which IS unconstitutional and doesn't need the APA's provisions to hold up the "question" again.

But, I know; that's not instant gratification either.  Very annoying how nothing works that way, isn't it?  It's almost like you have to be an adult to make sense of this world.


Unnecessary Postscript:  NYT from yesterday tells me:

Either way, the tanks would have to be transported by rail or flatbed truck.

Everybody knows the tanks and Bradleys are in D.C., at the rail yard.  Now what?  Load 'em on flatbeds and drive 'em into the city?  Newsflash:  tanks don't get lighter because they're on trailers.   The treads won't tear up the roads, but the weight will still do significant damage.

Also, how impressive are tanks sitting on trailers?  I did see some of the tan-colored "Batmobiles" from "The Dark Knight Rises" being transported through Abilene to New Mexico on a flatbed, before that movie was released.  They looked pretty cool, but they weren't on the way to a patriotic celebration, and they didn't weigh 60 tons apiece.  So I'm really, really curious:  how are those things going to get any closer to downtown D.C. than they already are?