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The biggest whiners in the history of the universe.
We believe this should be obvious, but we notice in the Trump era that some obvious things are never plainly put: Just a couple of months in, the Republican Party has forever lost the ability to complain about any Democrat trying to “delegitimize” the courts. This week’s effort of coordinated, premeditated delegitimization of the judiciary from the very bottom to the very top of the MAGA coalition was centered on James “Jeb” Boasberg, chief judge of the D.C. District Court. He told the administration that it couldn’t quite yet use its new statutory toy from 1798 to round up some guys with tattoos, call them gang members, and quick schlep them out of the country, ordering any such flights that had taken off to return to the U.S. The administration disobeyed that completely, and Boasberg has been understandably upset, which only got worse as he asked for more information and was repeatedly rebuffed. For his efforts, Trump has called Boasberg a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge,” and a “troublemaker and agitator” who didn’t win any swing states in the 2024 election, and said he should be impeached. Attorney General Pam Bondi, boldly, accused Boasberg of “meddling in our government.” Elon Musk is spending to support House members who back the impeachment of Boasberg and other judges. The imbecilic “investigators” of X who believe they’ve uncovered a scandal when anyone owns an asset larger than their annual salary are on the case. (Find the dumbest politics tweet you saw in the last week, any week. The first reply will always be Musk writing, “Interesting.”) We’re seeing a staggering amount of whining and civilizational vandalism in response to being told you can’t do whatever you want to do, right away. Slate's "The Surge"
