A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on February 8, 2024.
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The throughline is ugly for Trump: the litigation is no longer an annoying side quest. It has become the campaign’s default setting, and every new filing or hearing makes the same point harder to dodge. The candidate who promised to swamp the system is still getting drowned by it.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Feb. 8, 2024 in Trump v. Anderson, a case over whether Colorado could keep Donald Trump off its primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The court had not yet ruled on the merits that day.