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Trump’s birthright-citizenship case added new amicus briefs
The Supreme Court docket in Trump v. Barbara added three amicus briefs on January 23, 2026, in the birthright-citizenship challenge now set for oral argument on April 1, 2026.
Edition · January 24, 2026
The Daily Fuckup: January 24, 2026
Trump’s January 23 damage report: the legal machine kept grinding, but the docket and the politics both looked like they were held together with duct tape and wishful thinking.
For the backfill edition dated January 24, 2026, the strongest Trump-world screwups that materially landed on January 23 were overwhelmingly legal and institutional. The day’s biggest bad look was the administration’s continued push to defend aggressive policy in court while outside groups and lawmakers piled on with briefs that framed Trump’s immigration and executive-power posture as lawless, reckless, or both. The result was not one tidy calamity, but a stack of fresh reminders that the White House and its allies were still spending enormous energy fighting fires they helped light.
Closing take
January 23 did not produce a single cinematic collapse. It produced something more Trumpian: a steady drip of court trouble, political backlash, and a paper trail that keeps turning up in all the wrong places. In other words, business as usual, except the consequences keep getting larger.
Ranked by how bad the fuckup was
5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.