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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When we was fab [1]
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Date: 2025-05-26
William Kristol/The Bulwark:
A Permanent Stain on Our History The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive. If the Trump administration’s sudden assault on thousands of foreign students legally studying at Harvard seems unprecedented, it’s because it is. If the abrupt abrogation of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans legally living and working in the United States seems unprecedented, it’s because it is. If the sudden arrests and deportations of law-abiding immigrants checking in as ordered at government offices seems unprecedented, it’s because it is. If the deportations of other immigrants without anything like due process and basically in defiance of court orders to prisons in third countries seems unprecedented, it’s because it is. And if it all seems utterly stupid and terribly cruel and amazingly damaging to this country, it’s because it is.
Paul Waldman/The Cross Section:
Corruption Is Still Corruption Even If It Happens Right In the Open Why Trump's brazenness diffuses the media's ability to describe him accurately. At the heart of this failure is an expectation that no longer holds, that when a politician commits acts of corruption, they will seek to conceal their misdeeds. While it is entirely possible that Trump and his family of fraudsters have engaged in personal enrichment schemes that have been kept secret (in fact, I’d be surprised if they hadn’t), what he has done right out in public is more than enough to demand a change in how we talk about the corruption that defines this presidency. The fact that he is not hiding his corruption — indeed, he seems to revel in making it as public as possible — is still shocking to many in the news media. And they have yet to adapt.
Also assumes politicians feel shame. Trump is a broken individual who has none of that human trait.
x Wow you got scammed by the most famous scammer on Earth at the scam meeting? Who could have seen this coming
https://t.co/p89ogEjDG1 — Conor Rogers (@conorjrogers) May 24, 2025
Robert Kuttner/TAP:
Ten Sneaky Sleeper Provisions in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Yet more horrors are hidden in the fine print Crippling Courts. The bill, hiding behind the premise that it is an appropriations measure, prohibits any funds from being used to carry out court orders holding executive branch officials in contempt. This is designed to enable Trump and his officials to continue defying court orders. It is almost certainly unconstitutional—if courts have the nerve to say so. Bonus for the Tax Prep Industry. The Biden administration sponsored a Direct File measure to allow taxpayers to save money by using a free IRS tool to file their tax return rather than paying commercial tax preparers. The program is now available to taxpayers in 25 states. The reconciliation bill repeals the program.
David Lat/Original Jurisdiction:
Class Actions Might Be The Surprise Fix For Problems With Universal Injunctions What some might dismiss as ‘technicalities,’ others might call ‘the rule of law I expected the arguments to cover universal injunctions and birthright citizenship, and they did. I did not expect extensive discussion of class actions under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23—which wound up being, according to Adam Feldman of Legalytics, one of the top three topics raised at the arguments. Or as Stanford law professor Mila Sohoni put it, in an excellent analysis at Divided Argument, “The breakout star of the oral argument was the Rule 23(b)(2) injunctive class action.” I was not alone in being surprised by how prominently class actions figured in the arguments. Also caught off guard was Vanderbilt law professor Brian Fitzpatrick, a leading expert on class actions and author of the book The Conservative Case for Class Actions, whom I interviewed earlier this week. “I was surprised by how much class actions were mentioned,” Fitzpatrick told me. “I realize they are a possible alternative to nationwide injunctions, but I didn’t realize how strong the interest was in them. It seemed that the government had put all their eggs in that basket—or that the justices saw class actions as the only viable alternative.”
x Making more sense why WH doesn’t want to post transcripts of Trump’s remarks.
This was to the graduating cadets at West Point today. pic.twitter.com/zQS9oqApZ0 — S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 24, 2025
G Elliott Morris/Strength in Numbers:
Republicans want you to pay more for less Donald Trump's policies are punishing the poor, rewarding the rich, inflating prices, and shrinking revenues. And for what? If passed, the bill will decrease the effective after-tax income of poor families, increase the income of the wealthiest Americans, and increase the size of the federal budget deficit by trillions of dollars. It is worth noting that the GOP budget bill is not popular. In our May Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll, just 14% of Americans approved of cutting Medicaid to finance tax cuts. And according to a model from Data for Progress, there is no congressional district in America where more than 15% of voters support cutting back on SNAP:
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