"Special Favors" From The Supremes ?? . . . The Trump Blow-Back

A delicate subject no doubt when so much hangs in the balance

Justice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing special favors for the Trump administration

The ordinary rules no longer apply when the Trump administration shows up in court.

By Ian Millhiser  Feb 22, 2020, 1:01pm EST

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at Tufts University on September 12, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Supreme Court voted along ideological lines Friday evening to allow a Trump administration rule restricting low-income immigrants’ ability to enter the US to take full effect. All four of the Court’s Democratic appointees dissented, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing a sharply worded dissenting opinion accusing her Court of “putting a thumb on the scale in favor of” the Trump administration.

“It is hard to say what is more troubling,” Sotomayor wrote. “That the government would seek this extraordinary relief seemingly as a matter of course, or that the Court would grant it.”

Sotomayor’s opinion is a warning that the Supreme Court’s Republican majority appears to care more about bailing out the Trump administration than it does careful deliberation that ensures the law is read properly. It’s also a warning that the Supreme Court appears to be bending the rules for Trump and Trump alone. As Sotomayor writes, “the Court’s recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others.”
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•Feb 25, 2020

Feb.25 -- President Donald Trump explains his demand that Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse themselves from future cases involving his administration. 
Trump spoke Tuesday at a press conference in New Delhi, India.

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Trump’s demand for Ginsburg and Sotomayor to recuse themselves, briefly explained

Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing cases about his tax records, Trump openly attacks justices for insufficient loyalty.

By Aaron Rupar@atrupar  Feb 25, 2020, 11:45am EST

Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing arguments on cases about whether Congress should have access to his tax and financial records, President Donald Trump is calling for two of the court’s liberal women justices to recuse themselves from any cases involving him. . . 

Turning to Sotomayor, Trump, without providing any specifics, claimed “she said what she said yesterday. You know very well what she said yesterday. It was a big story. And I just don’t know how they can not recuse themselves from anything have to do with Trump or Trump-related.”

. . . pressed to provide details. about the Sotomayor comments he found objectionable, asking, “What was inappropriate about the statement? ... she seemed to criticize the White House for running to the Supreme Court at the drop of the hat.”

“No, I don’t think that was it,”    Trump said. 

“But I think what she did say is that she’s trying to shame — the way I look at it, she’s trying to shame people with perhaps a different view into voting her way. And that’s so inappropriate. . . ."

Trump’s attacks on Supreme Court justices he perceives as being insufficiently loyal to him point to how, following his impeachment acquittal, he’s feeling increasingly emboldened to attack any and all checks on his power. They also illustrate his conviction that anybody who has said a critical word about him, even indirectly, is disqualified from involvement in cases pertaining to his interests.

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