Boston’s First Circuit kept a USPS mail-ballot rule blocked, the Supreme Court knocked out Missouri’s Trump-backed map, and the Fourth Circuit rejected ICE’s no-bond detention theory. Another evening where the Constitution is doing overtime with no onion rings.
A Maryland judge blocked the White House’s latest birthright-citizenship workaround, ruling the government cannot deny citizenship to certified class members the Supreme Court already said are citizens. Remarkable stuff: reading the assignment.
No consequential, credibly reported U.S. development in the requested civil-liberties-and-accountability lane cleared the 12-hour cutoff we reviewed. So no stale roast beef tonight: better an empty plate than yesterday’s outrage microwaved into “breaking news.”
Trump’s crew bulldozed ahead at the White House, then tried to sell the courts a national-security hall pass. Meanwhile, State froze immigrant visas by nationality. Same operating system: power first, law after the fact.
