Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

And with that, a decade of problems for Ken Paxton had begun.

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• Final Liberally Lean Bracket Standings:
  
  
  
• The University of Houston again failed to win the national championship last night after blowing a late lead. I think we all know why:
  
  
  
• Trump vs. The Courts had a big day yesterday.
• Case #1. In using the Alien Enemies Act to sweep up and immediately deport anyone the Trump Administration claims is a gang member, the Supreme Court avoided  made two rulings . . . 
  
  
  
• The first ruling is that anyone swept off the street does have the right to challenge their removal in court and must be given a "reasonable" time between being snatched up and moved out of the country to do so. Practically, I don't know anyone swept off the streets is going to be able to quickly find, much less hire, a lawyer to make the court challenge so that pretty means 95%(?) or more will just be summarily deported. 
  
  
  
• I was a little surprised that the government actually conceded the due process point -- that those detained under the Act were entitled to a court hearing. (See below) That's not what the Trump talking heads have been saying. 
  
  
  
• And Trump has to be happy with the second ruling: The court said any challenge to deportation must be made where the detainee is held.  So now the plan will be (as Trump has already done), to immediately ship them to a holding center in Texas where a Trump-friendly judge will be waiting for any of them wishing to challenge their imminent deportation. So that 5% which can mount a court challenge are doomed anyway. 
• Case #2. In the case where the federal judge had ordered the Trump Administration, by midnight, to bring back the guy who was wrongfully deported to the El Salvadorian prison, Trump had a loss and then a victory all in the same day.
  
  
  
• The loss occurred early in the day when the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld the district judge's ruling. And they were very blunt about it. 
  
  
  
• The win came later in the day when the Supreme Court put everything on hold. I have no idea what's going on here. 
  
   
  
  
  
  
• Tariff wars: Trump had a message to you - "Don't be stupid!"
  
  
  
• Let's check in on Fox News.
  
• I don't think this is getting enough coverage: All over the country, student visas of college students are suddenly being revoked. 
  
• With crises breaking out everywhere, Trump was excited about at least one thing yesterday. 
  
• Later, as the Dodgers were welcomed to the White House, this happened:
  
• Just a bit too far.
  
   
  
• Go Team Roundup!
  

  

  
  
• I've mentioned before that the company which is trying to create a woolly mammoth has Decatur ties (Ben Lamm and the Armes family). Well, the company just created a living and breathing dire wolf right out of Game of Thrones. The event was featured on ABC's World News Tonight last night and now on the cover of Time magazine.