Edition · March 2, 2023

The Daily Fuckup — March 2, 2023

1 verified report published on March 2, 2023.

This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.

Closing take

The throughline here is simple: Trump kept trying to turn the legal system into a stage, and the legal system kept answering with paperwork, delays, and mostly bad news. That is not the dramatic kind of defeat he likes to make into content, but it is the kind that adds up.

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Trump-Era Title 42 Starts to Slip Toward the Exit

★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5 Major mess

The Trump-era border policy that let the government rapidly expel migrants ran into another legal and political wall as the Supreme Court took it off the immediate argument calendar, a sign the policy’s endgame was becoming unavoidable.

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