The Trump administration's latest application for emergency relief from #SCOTUS (on foreign aid impoundment) rests on a contrived procedural emergency and a forfeited substantive claim—apparently banking on the view that the justices don't mind being played.

My (very) deep dive, via "One First":

President Trump's latest emergency application rests on a contrived procedural emergency and a forfeited substantive claim—apparently banking on the view that the Court doesn't mind being played.

Bonus 174: Playing the Justices for Fools

President Trump's latest emergency application rests on a contrived procedural emergency and a forfeited substantive claim—apparently banking on the view that the Court doesn't mind being played.

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"The harder question is whether, in a case in which the government’s cynical attempt to so obviously manipulate the emergency docket is happening in plain sight, the justices will still indulge it."

Does SCOTUS want to play this game of Calvinball? See Jackson dissent, recently.

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