A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
A New York appeals court swatted down another delay bid, and prosecutors at the Supreme Court told justices to toss Trump’s immunity fantasy in the election case. The campaign also managed to turn abortion into another intraparty fight, just to keep the hits coming.
Trump spent April 9, 2024 getting his legal and political escape routes blocked from more than one direction. In New York, an appeals judge rejected his latest effort to push back the hush-money trial, while in Washington prosecutors urged the Supreme Court to dismiss his immunity claims in the election-subversion case. On the campaign side, his abortion positioning kept drawing fire from anti-abortion allies who heard surrender instead of strategy. It was a day that made the same point in three different ways: the damage is not hypothetical anymore.
The pattern is getting hard to miss. Trump keeps trying to lawyer, post, and message his way out of trouble, and the courts and his own coalition keep answering with different versions of no.
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Special counsel Jack Smith filed a Supreme Court brief on April 8, 2024, arguing Donald Trump’s immunity claim should fail in the federal election-interference case set for argument later this month.
A New York appeals judge rejected Trump’s last-minute bid to delay the April 15 hush-money trial, knocking down another attempt to buy time as the case heads toward jury selection.
Donald Trump said on April 8, 2024, that abortion policy should be left to the states, and some anti-abortion allies quickly objected to the move.