Trump continues to undermine the lawsuit his administration filed claiming large swaths of Bolton's book were classified and therefore true. https://t.co/o9Dxc1YV1f— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 18, 2020
This doesn't mean as much to the court as you might think, since the evidence that the information is classified will come from something other than a Presidential tweet. However, in the Supreme Court today, Trump got poured out on his attempts to repeal Obama's actions on DACA.
It's not that Chief Justice Roberts is a closet progressive. He's not.— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 18, 2020
It's that the Trump administration is *really bad* at administrative law.
This Roberts decision is based on process, not principles. DACA was saved because the Trump administration is largely incompetent. https://t.co/mXPNwS8cc3— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 18, 2020
There's no commutative principle in legal representation, no transitive property that means the legal counsel in the Bolton suit is as incompetent as the legal claims made for DACA, or for the census cases last year (where Trump was poured out again, despite everyone assuring us Trump would trample the census into dust beneath his unstoppable Iron Heel), but I do think a pattern is starting to emerge.
Just like with census case, Roberts basically told Trump admin they were full of shit— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 18, 2020
Chief Justice Roberts' decision on DACA reads a lot like his decision on the Census case: The administration has the power to do this in theory, but in practice, they did it so badly that it's invalid. @DavidGSavage w the news: https://t.co/DpAXoryRlj— David Lauter (@DavidLauter) June 18, 2020
You know, it's just possible this administration IS "largely incompetent."
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