Trump’s latest unhinged tweetstorm could hasten his downward spiral
it would be a good idea to seize on the London terror carnage to launch a fresh Twitter attack on the courts and on his own Justice Department.
In so doing, he may have given opponents of his immigration ban more ammunition against it in court. Beyond that,
he confirmed once again that a deep rot of bad faith and a profound contempt for process continue to infest much of what this administration does:Trump also tweeted that “extreme vetting” is necessary to keep our country safe, and addedthat “the courts are slow and political!”
Trump’s new tweets are “significant in at least two ways”:
First, they give atmospheric support to the plaintiffs’ arguments, in the various immigration cases, that the immigration executive orders are motivated by invidious discrimination.
Second, the attack on courts makes it much harder for courts, including the Supreme Court, to rule for Trump even when the law is otherwise on his side.
Courts will want to avoid the appearance of having been bullied into ruling for Trump.
The Trump tweets are thus entirely self-defeating for his litigation strategy, assuming he wants to win those cases.
Could Trump’s tweets undercut his administration’s legal defense of the travel ban in some atmospheric sense?
Trump made repeated campaign statements confirming his intent to ban Muslims from the United States.
At one point he suggested an immigration ban by territory — which is now the basis for the current one he’s pursuing by executive order banning travel from six majority-Muslim countries — would essentially be a way for him to get his originally intended ban around legal hurdles.
Trump’s tweets today contradict his own press secretary, Sean er, who had previously insisted the executive order is not a “ban,”
but is solely a temporary pause only designed to facilitate the improvement of vetting processes.
Trump appears to have confirmed that it is intended as a “ban”
with a few impulsive pokes of the Twitter “send” button. It’s not clear this supports the argument that the ban was discriminatory in intent, but it does suggest in a more general way that
the administration’s rationales for the ban have been offered in bad faith.
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Trash is ing brilliant, just ing brilliant! 
And the craven Repugs remaining silent are approving.
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What a dumbass piece of .
Donald J. Trump 