The word "evidence" appears 14 times in this 16-page Karin Immergut (who is, reminder, a Trump appointee) opinion extending her TRO preventing Trump from deploying the National Guard in Oregon. 😎 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
@emptywheel.bsky.social MAGA will hate this. They are sworn enemies of empiricism in any of its guises: facts, data, evidence, precedent, eyewitness accounts...
@Steve @emptywheel.bsky.social they also largely ignore/decry factual evidence, when it does not fit into the expectations laid out by their parallel reality.
@faraiwe @emptywheel.bsky.social Yup. In their narrative, they are the center of the world -- the wisest, the most important, and the natural leaders. Any fact that contradicts that narrative is both a threat and an insult.