Today’s notice: The county where everyone is hosting a town hall. Populist VOA vs. DOGE VOA. MAGA’s home church. A Biden investigation scoop. But first: The courts are not equipped.
Courts Vs. Politics
The smashing together of courts and politics may prove to be the defining story of Trump 2.0.
Tuesday afternoon, Chief Justice John Roberts took the extraordinary step of publicly wading into Republicans’ calls to impeach the federal judge overseeing Trump’s deportations deal with El Salvador. Mere minutes after Roberts noted that appeals courts, not politically motivated impeachment threats, are the accepted check on a judge’s rulings, a fundraising email pegged to the immigration cases landed in our inbox from the Republican Party of Iowa. “CROOKED Judges,” it read, “must be IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY.”