There are not. But the administration’s general strategy appears to be to confuse the public by asserting that even the clearest black-letter law is hotly contested so long as they can scrounge up some hack willing to pretend up is down. - ThreadSky

normative.bsky.social • 24 days ago

There are not. But the administration’s general strategy appears to be to confuse the public by asserting that even the clearest black-letter law is hotly contested so long as they can scrounge up some hack willing to pretend up is down.

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

"There are actually questions about whether a verbal order carries the same weight as a written order" -- Leavitt on court orders and Trump's compliance (or lack thereof) with them

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vocabulist.bsky.social•24 days ago

Also, in the event of a conflict between an oral pronouncement and a written order (which didn’t happen here), the oral pronouncement generally governs.

rebelgadfly.bsky.social•24 days ago

Likely phone calls to their "I won't forget" SC buds got all this pre-cleared, no? SC will do performative hedging, pausing some little stuff, sending back to lower courts, so as to rule by not ruling, giving regime time to centralize their security forces be4 outright l'Etat c'est moi declaration.

crunk1977.bsky.social•24 days ago

Giving some real "Obama showed a birth certificate not a certificate of live birth" vibes. 😂

buzzyduzzy.bsky.social•24 days ago

And even when they are found wrong, they never, ever tell the american maga public they were wrong and maga goes on living in the twilight of a golden age.

boboinparadise.bsky.social•24 days ago

1 man's hack is another's Jeffrey Clark, Eastman, Cheesebro, Martin, Sauer, Bove, etc etc etc

colliejoy.bsky.social•24 days ago

Maybe there needs to be someone hotly contesting that Trumps orders over social media aren’t actually Presidential orders, just a madman raving into the night.

blakeyblakey-1-9.bsky.social•24 days ago

Frankly, the strategy is not limited to this administration. It’s the strategy Fox News and most RW has employed for decades. Trump et al is just the next, natural evolution of their approach.
I don’t know how this genie can be put back in the bottle.

ben-223.bsky.social•24 days ago

The we can't read or comprehend defense. Is Bugs Bunny involved? Elmer Fudd? The roadrunner?

ubermitch.bsky.social•24 days ago

IIYA SHAPRIO DEPLOYING

bagofbleeps.bsky.social•24 days ago

Worked for cigarettes and climate...

mppreston.bsky.social•24 days ago

All the more relevant given this Politico piece on the Project 2025 architect, who unironically rails against judicial forum shopping https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/16/project-2025-paul-dans-qa-00228890

ealgumby.bsky.social•24 days ago

The game is to contest every ruling, lie, and delay delay delay.

Meanwhile, do whatever the fuck they please, and count on it taking too long for anything to come of legal challenges.

It has worked - or I should say, Trump has been ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH IT - repeatedly - why he's in the WH now.

jvagle.me•24 days ago

I can hear the op-ed abstract being hastily written as we speak.

natedogg213.bsky.social•24 days ago

*scribbling noises*

"Just need to sprinkle in the last reference to DEIA and....done!"

godzilla64.bsky.social•24 days ago

I am actually surprised that they haven’t tried arguing that their fingers were crossed while whatever they were told to do was said, so it doesn’t apply to them at all.

dragon-bait.bsky.social•24 days ago

“Wrih-in” order

kmgj89.bsky.social•24 days ago

😂

perceptionshifter.bsky.social•24 days ago

Every one of these Trump appointees and staff members are being paid on the regular, with taxpayer money. It's like being slapped in the face twice.

timcies.bsky.social•24 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

saneenglish.bsky.social•24 days ago

They're using the same tactics in the sabotage handbook that we were supposed to use against them: Act stupid, pretend you don't know the rules, cry, throw sand in the gears, say you looked for something but can't find it, etc

normative.bsky.social•24 days ago

They played the same tune on birthright citizenship. A couple hacks desperate to prove themselves shameless enough for a political appointment vomit out a lot of gibberish pretending the Constitution doesn't say what it clearly does. Every other legal scholar & historian can tell it's nonsense.

meghanclare.bsky.social•24 days ago

And climate change

bananapantz.bsky.social•24 days ago

Questions have been raised

utahcornelius.bsky.social•24 days ago

The problem is they live on nonsense. Half the country likes their nonsense. Every day they say the sun is blue, and half the country repeats what they say: "the sun is blue". That's the age we live in. Big, obvious nonsense is entirely in the mainstream conversation.

jamellebouie.net•24 days ago

careful julian, it is uncivil and maybe even illiberal to state plainly that someone is a hack whose arguments aren’t worth taking seriously

normative.bsky.social•24 days ago

But now it's a "contested question" as far as the untrained public is concerned, because the crackpot position ends up covered as though it's on par with the boring 99% view that the Constitution does indeed say what everyone has always thought it said.

mberns247.bsky.social•24 days ago

Same thing they did on Presidential Immunity and they even got SCOTUS to go along eventually

pjrodriguez.bsky.social•24 days ago

Are you trying to tell me the “moon landing” is NOT a contested question? 😮

sagastar.bsky.social•24 days ago

interestingly enough the common factor for a large amount of these is john eastman

kingbritt1211.bsky.social•24 days ago

This girl is too stupid to speak about any of this. Our country is in so much trouble.

dzdzdzdzdzdz.bsky.social•24 days ago

lots of practice at this over the years: Bush era pressers on Iraq and (in more recent memory) Biden admin’s pressers on Gaza were full of this shit.

ucsdave.bsky.social•24 days ago

It worked for the oil industry -- why wouldn't they deploy that strategy, too? They know the news media will just sit back and shrug off their roles to inform and instead "both sides" that shit. Of course this is the play until the media learns or we, y'know, just slip into f'ing fascism.

antonshadow.bsky.social•24 days ago

According To Recent Polling On Economy/Inflation, Fewer Then 28% Support FelonTrump, 67% Disapprove... That's Enough For An Impeachment By Nixon Standards. FelonTrump Has Committed 1,000% More Crimes Then Nixon.

swiffy.bsky.social•24 days ago

The government should hire some knowledgeable lawyers, especially if it's determined to be in court so much

randyc25.bsky.social•24 days ago

I just make shit up here daily she was quoted as saying

moodlesmix.bsky.social•24 days ago

I'd say their strategy is to ignore the law altogether

kedwards.bsky.social•24 days ago

Judge: another outburst and I’ll hold you in contempt.

MAGA defendant: I’m going to need that in writing, your honor, or it just doesn’t work for me.

mrasia1962.bsky.social•24 days ago

It’s quite obvious that the US administration no longer sees any need to comply with orders by judges. As an investor I would have serious doubts about whether the US currently offers the necessary legal stability needed to do business in this country.

harpnwave.bsky.social•24 days ago

Can't pass-
ECO 101 ie--
Micro & Macro
BASIC MATH 5TH Grade
Tarrifts added at
Border Entry is a
GOD DAM TAX...
SHIP OF FOOLS..

ryanmichael80.bsky.social•24 days ago

They should be disbarred!

hagen-patrick.bsky.social•24 days ago

The only questions are from Leavitt's boss, who is also questioning if syphilis is bad and if he can make any money off the Tesla he just bought.

hellscapenavigator.bsky.social•24 days ago

they kinda have to at least come up with some legal rationale, however thin because we're not quite at the "obey or die, we are the law" stage yet. give it another month or two, though...

tampalib.bsky.social•24 days ago

It's the intelligent design "teach the controversy" tactic writ large

pinkcamilla.bsky.social•24 days ago

Then when it’s in writing, they’ll say the ink was the wrong color. It should have been hand written, not typed. They’re a criminal clown show and we shouldn’t entertain their nonsense.