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Shipped to Nowhere
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Trump administration can keep deporting people to countries they’ve never set foot in. No notice of where they’re going, no chance to argue. Just a one-way ticket to wherever some foreign government signed a blanket promise not to torture them. Twenty-five thousand people have already been processed this way since March 2025. The lower courts called it unconstitutional. A federal judge said the bare minimum is telling someone where you’re sending them. The Supreme Court looked at that and said: actually, let’s let it keep happening while we think about it. Full arguments...
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Your Mailbox Just Became a Checkpoint
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday to let Trump’s mail voting executive order move forward. The one that creates a federal voter eligibility list and puts the Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security in charge of deciding whose ballot gets delivered. Two months before the midterms. A federal judge blocked the whole thing in June because it’s flatly illegal under existing election law. The Court didn’t say it was legal now. They said the government can start building the machine while everyone argues about whether the machine should exist. By November, the argument won’t matter. This is the...
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He Lost in Court So He Changed the Name
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told him the tariffs were illegal. So he kept the rates, swapped the legal citation, slapped “forced labor” on the label, and went right back to taxing 99.4% of U.S. imports like nothing happened. Twenty-five state attorneys general filed suit yesterday because they can read a calendar — the old tariffs expired and the new ones showed up at the same rates, on the same goods, the next business day. His own trade rep went on record promising “continuity.” That’s not even a cover story. That’s a guy plagiarizing his own paper after the professor caught him...
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He Told You It's the Same Tariff
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court told him no. Six justices, including three he appointed, said the tariffs were illegal. That was February. By July he’d slapped tariffs on sixty countries under a different statute and walked up to a microphone at a GM proving ground in Michigan to say, out loud, that the new ones are “doing the same thing” as the ones the court struck down. He said it was “a shame” he had to “go a harder way.” The man described his own workaround for a Supreme Court ruling like he was complaining about a detour on his commute. A...
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The Supreme Court Said His Tariffs Were Illegal. He Did It Again The Same Day.
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump’s IEEPA tariffs were illegal. Not a technicality — the man literally did not have the legal authority to bypass Congress and impose duties on every import in the country. $166 billion in wrongly collected tariffs now has to be refunded. Customs is still trying to figure out the logistics. And what did Trump do hours after the ruling? Signed a new executive order slapping a 10% global tariff under a different law. Same policy, different letterhead. The Supreme Court struck it down and he just reloaded. This is what “rule of law” looks...
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