TWITTER IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, TRUMP | The Conways’ Dinner Table Discussion | Hot New Book On RBG’S Workout Routine
June 6, 2017
IN CASE YOU SOMEHOW MISSEED IT
|The president yesterday spent his morning on Twitter sharing public statements on his “travel ban” that is currently before the Supreme Court. Politics aside, it seems lawyers on both sides of the dispute agree on one thing: The president likely hurt his SCOTUS case with his Twitter tantrum.
FOUR TWEETS LATER
|Amber Phillips with The Washington Post explains how exactly the president was able to completely undermine the legal argument for his travel ban in just four tweets. One by one she dissects his statements, noting that in the fourth and final tweet he took another direct shot at the courts, practically spoon feeding the high court a reason to “exert their independence from a president who seems intent at chipping away at it.”
FAMILY IS FAMILY IN CHURCH OR IN PRISON
|Husband of one of Trump’s top aides Kellyanne, GEORGE CONWAY tweeted yesterday responding to the president’s Twitter barrage with some tweets of his own. Conway tweeted several times sharing his criticism of the president’s decision to take to Twitter about the “travel ban.” Conway blasted out: “These tweets make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won’t help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is actually what matters. Sad.” Conway later confirmed his support for the president but he still stood by his renunciation of Trump’s behavior in light of his case pending before the high court. Imagine last night’s discussion at the Conway’s dinner table.
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
|Conway wasn’t the only high profile GOP lawyer who spoke out against Trump’s statements on Twitter. JACK GOLDSMITH, a top DOJ official under PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, shared his own 17-entry Tweetstorm arguing that Trump’s ongoing attacks on his own lawyers are further eroding judicial deference for the executive branch. POLITICO’s Josh Gerstein reports on what he calls “an unprecedented public intervention against PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.”
ARE YOU THERE SCOTUS? IT'S ME TRUMP
|OK, so it’s a big deal that PRESIDENT TRUMP tweeted about the travel ban yesterday. But will anyone on the Supreme Court be following along? And will Trump’s tweets be fair game for citation in Supreme Court rulings as a modern-day form of “excited utterance?” Tony Mauro with The National Law Journal is asking all the right questions and bringing us some very important answers to them.
PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
|“Seven years after he wrote a book about impeachment, then-CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM REHNQUIST presided over one: the trial of PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON in 1999, which resulted in acquittal. What follow are observations from Rehnquist about impeachment.” Tony Mauro with The National Law Journal reports.
HOT NEW BOOK REVIEW – I'M GONNA LOOK GOOD FOR YOU HONEY
|They don’t call her “notorious” for nothing. Supreme Court JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG is 84-years-old and she’s giving us some serious fitspo in a new book out this Fall. RBG’s trainer for nearly two decades, Bryant Johnson, will walk us through the justice’s workout regimen in the book titled, “The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong… and You Can Too!” The 112-page book will feature illustrations of Ginsburg doing each exercise in her routine. She’ll be pictured in her judicial robes, with purple leggings and “her trusty sneakers,” according to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Could be a perfect Halloween costume for those who like to plan ahead…
SCOTUS VIEWS
Supreme Court Strikes Down Yet Another Racial Gerrymander in North Carolina
Slate“Monday’s ruling, however, is a mixed result for voting rights advocates. On the one hand, the court invalidated 28 districts with no noted dissents—a remarkable rebuke to North Carolina’s Republican-dominated Legislature. On the other hand, the justices actually vacated the lower court’s solution to this constitutional violation.”
OTHER NEWS
Hospitals' Pension Win at High Court Might be Short-Lived
The National Law Journal“Three religious-affiliated, nonprofit hospital systems won reprieves from multi-million dollar class actions Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court. But that relief may not be long-lasting.”
50 Years Later, 'Loving' Revisits Landmark Supreme Court Ruling
NPR“Author Sheryll Cashin’s talks about the Loving v. Virginia ruling, which overturned state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Cashin grew up the child of civil rights activists in Huntsville, Ala.”