Writing in The Atlantic Neal K. Katyal, Former Acting Solicitor General of the United States, and Joshua A. Geltzer, Executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, provide an analysis of Trump’s recent defeats in the Supreme Court. The main take away: the decisions seem to be based on technical details but actually reveal the Court’s concern over the President’s abuse of his position.
Trump keeps losing not because of something obscure, but because of something fundamental: his abuse of the executive branch. Much of his administration’s approach to governance rests on attempting executive actions that lack any meaningful justification rooted in expertise, or even rational thought.
The whole article is worth reading.
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