“Calvinball” in politics—and playing Calvinball with my son many years ago. #111Words #PublicNotice #DavidRoberts #Calvinball #USPolitics #ChangingRules #BadFaith #MovingTheGoalposts #CalvinAndHobbes #Games #Laughter #Fun https://111-words.ghost.io/calvinball-in-politics-and-playing-calvinball-with-my-son-many-years-ago/

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The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team: ‘Welcome to the Supreme Court’s Calvinball era…. On August 21, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling order that required researchers, who claim that the Trump administration illegally cut off their federal grants, to navigate a convoluted procedural maze in two different courts. [Justice Ketanji Brown] Jackson labeled this decision “Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist.” Calvinball, an ever-changing game featured in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, “has only one rule: There are no fixed rules.” In this Court, Jackson continued, there are two: The rules always change, and “this Administration always wins.”…
The Court’s Republican majority now hands Trump several victories every month, only explaining themselves when they feel like it. —Ian Millhiser, VOX Sr. Columnist #SCOTUS #legal #RuleOfLaw #CalvinBall