A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on May 23, 2024.
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May 23 was a reminder that Trump’s biggest liability was still Trump: a permanent collision between ambition, litigation, and the kind of discipline that never seems to make the room. Even when the right-wing legal apparatus scored a separate win, the broader picture was of a political operation spending as much energy surviving the mess as selling a message.
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On May 23, 2024, Trump’s federal immunity fight was still awaiting a Supreme Court ruling, and Georgia prosecutors filed a cross-appeal challenging the March order that threw out six counts in the Fulton County case.
On May 23, 2024, the Supreme Court reversed in part and remanded in part South Carolina’s redistricting case, leaving the state’s congressional map in place for now while sending unresolved issues back to lower court.