Chatter At The National High School Lunch Table

 Did you hear what Trump said? 

"[Leonard] Leo is somebody who's very close to those justices and we're already seeing signs, right, that the three Trump appointees are not so firmly in Trump's camp as some would have expected," the legal expert told the panel.

"And to have that kind of unhinged attack calling Leonard Leo a sleazebag, the word the president used, I mean, it's almost incomprehensible," he added before recalling, "The last time I saw Leonard Leo was last fall at the Federalist Society conference, and he was not schmoozing with other, you know, wealthy lawyers who were there or other conservative legal activists who were there. He was sitting in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel that I know you all are very familiar with, chatting with a Catholic priest and a Catholic nun, okay, so the guy is not a sleazebag."

"There are people that will have disagreements and criticisms, will say he's anti-majoritarian, those are all things that I think one can debate as reasonable criticism," he pointed out. "But to call him a sleazebag is just sort of bizarre lashing out at someone because you didn't get your way and I don't think that's going to sit well with his friends on the Supreme Court."

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Everybody’s talking about it! 

Trump is usually a genius about wielding loyalties to his benefit.

But "real 'sleazebag'" Leonard Leo has spent a great deal of $$, um, influencing the people Trump needs.

Anyway, I've been noting import of far right involvement in tariff cases for weeks. So Imma mark this as a win.

A lot!

Also, if you're wondering, that Leo screed is 510 words long.

The Old Man had a lot to say...

Because the real problem is what he said about people.

Donald Trump is gonna have some real cognitive dissonance when he remembers that Aileen Cannon is a Leonard Leo gal.

Ya know, those 510 words included this:

The horrific decision stated that I would have to get the approval of Congress for these Tariffs. In other words, hundreds of politicians would sit around D.C. for weeks, and even months, trying to come to a conclusion as to what to charge other Countries that are treating us unfairly. If allowed to stand, this would completely destroy Presidential Power — The Presidency would never be the same! This decision is being hailed all over the World by every Country, other than the United States of America. Radical Left Judges, together with some very bad people, are destroying America.

But that’s just Trump being Trump, right? I’m sure the Supremes will care less about Trump’s theory of Presidential power than they will about his gossip (well, with the probable exception of Alito and Thomas).