An Exceedingly Busy Week in Our Nation’s Courts—Including Lots of Unfavorable Rulings for the former President
In ways obvious and discrete, explicit and implicit, the federal and state courts of America this week rejected two of the principal doctrines that have animated the litigation actions of Donald Trump—namely, that he is entitled to special treatment as a former President, including serial delays in the otherwise routine delivery of justice: From the unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court that the House Ways & Means Committee is legally entitled to examine the tax returns of the former President to the unfavorable reaction of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to his attack on the…
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