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Trump v. Court(s) [1]
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Date: 2025-05-30
In July of 2020, what was thought to be a FedEx delivery driver knocked on the front door of the Anderl home. The son of the homeowners, Danny Anderl, was celebrating his birthday with his parents. A few minutes later, the son of Judge Esther Salas lay dead on the floor, and her husband was gravely wounded. The cowardly killer was a self-professed men’s rights lawyer who was later found to have an apparent kill list of other judges. In the intervening years, Judge Salas ceased to be a victim and has become a brave advocate for the safety of judges and the staunch upholding of the law. It may have been coincidental that Judge Salas is the daughter of Mexican and Cuban immigrants, but current conservative orthodoxy says otherwise. The threats to judges have risen exponentially in the Trump years.
In the 2016 case involving the fraudulent university of then-candidate Trump, the judge in the case was an American judge with a Hispanic surname, Curiel. Mr. Trump, as is his wont, did not defend the merits of the case but attacked the judge, whom he said had “an inherent conflict of interest” because of his heritage. Mr. Trump, whose chief campaign strategy in 2016 was to castigate immigrants, calling for Mexico to pay for a border wall, went on to say, “I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest,” said Trump. Even though some Republicans called the comment racist, Mr. Trump calculated that enough of America were both racist and xenophobic enough to embrace his remark, just as they later did with his heinous accusation against Haitian immigrants in his recent presidential campaign.
The latest press and punditry speculation is that Mr. Trump is being stopped by the courts, using the false construct that it is Trump versus the courts, and the courts will save us. What is lost in all the rampant cheering for the judiciary is the real play by Mr. Trump to pit the lower courts against The Court. One might speculate that Mr. Trump, whom the Supreme Court has previously ruled is immune from criminal prosecution, considers a presidential decision to be beyond the reach of prosecution. His acceleration and overreach of his presidential powers are his attempts to expedite cases to the Supreme Court. The Court has seldom ruled against Mr. Trump in its entirety; instead, it has returned rulings to lower courts for clarification or inexplicably failed to enforce its own rulings. So, while Mr. Trump championed the immigration of white South Africans, his Department of Homeland Security deported a 2-year-old American-born citizen, along with her undocumented family. Essentially rendering her stateless because she has no rights in the country where she was expelled. The child in question, Emanuelly Borges Santos, lovingly known as Manu by her family, was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in September 2022, granting her lawful American citizenship.
Aside from the Court usurping the Constitution by effectively making the President a king, absolving him from breaking the law, they are now faced with ruling on Mr. Trump's attempt to rid America of another constitutionally guaranteed right, birthright citizenship. My great-grandmother had a saying: 'Enough is enough, and too much stinks.' Will the Republican party allow the great experiment of the American body politic to become a rotting corpse before they notice the smell, and it is too late?
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