That time Jackson shredded Trump in a federal court ruling

[brooklynite]

Politico

When the House’s lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena against former Trump White House Counsel Donald McGahn was randomly assigned to Jackson in 2019, the consensus among court watchers was that Trump was likely to be fileted. What emerged from Jackson was an 118-page jeremiad that did not mince words in dissecting Trump’s claim that his advisers had an absolute right to ignore Congressional subpoenas at his direction.

“Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings,” Jackson wrote, dismissing the longstanding argument as “a fiction” and “a proposition that cannot be squared with core constitutional values.”

Beyond that decision and another in which Jackson blocked the Trump administration from expanding the use of expedited deportation proceedings, there are few rulings with clear political overtones.

“There’s very little there that can legitimately be characterized as radical. She’s a judge who takes pains to find and apply the law in an evenhanded manner with a balanced tone,” said Tomiko Brown-Nagin a constitutional law scholar and dean of the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute.

[Hekate]

1. Thx for the reminder! That was a great moment -- may there be many more.

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[calimary]

2. Keeping this for her quote - that "Presidents are not kings."

[Haggard Celine]

3. I had forgotten about that.

I should have known there was a reason Lindsey Graham was talking shit about her. It's just more revenge from Trump. Everything with them boils down to who has kissed Trump's ass and who hasn't.

[MadameButterfly]

4. Finally some good news!

i had feared Manchin and Graham were going to pick our next Supreme Court justice.
Not that they won't try to still get their way, but it will be hard to take Jackson-Browne down.

Kudos to Biden for standing his ground and picking someone with the potential to be great.

[ymetca]

5. I remember

when Nixon, in an interview after he had resigned, stating "if the President does it, then it's not illegal", and I thought we had really dodged a bullet getting rid of that guy. Then lo and behold the same group of fascists who supported him turned up supporting TFG.

(And let's not forget Cheney, another vestigial Nixonite, during the Bush the Younger years claiming all that fascist "imperial president" crapola.)

Some very "close calls" in my lifetime, and on the heels of increasing mass movements towards improving our civil rights. Not trying to "take our country back", but trying to make it actually live up to its ideals.

I saw the author of the 1619 Project on PBS earlier today, and she said something that struck a chord. Something to the effect that the phrase that the arc of history bends towards justice isn't actually true unless We The People are actively bending it that way.