The real reason it’s over for Donald Trump

| 4:30 pm EST February 15, 2024
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With all his other tactics having failed (and not really bought him any time), Donald Trump is now down to one final play: asking the Supreme Court to bail him out. If it feels like we’ve seen this movie before, it’s because we have. After Trump lost in 2020, he asked the Supreme Court to keep him in office – and they promptly laughed in his face. After all, this corrupt Supreme Court has its own agenda that doesn’t involve sticking its neck out for Trump.

But there’s more than just precedent to suggest that the Supreme Court will once again laugh at Trump now that he’s begging for intervention in his criminal trials. As much as Trump seems to think that he owns three Supreme Court Justices because he nominated them, that’s not really the case.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has posted a remarkably detailed breakdown of who actually owns and operates the Supreme Court Justices that Trump is counting on to bail him out. The bottom line: instead of carefully picking nominees that were going to be loyal to him, Trump lazily and naively nominated whoever right wing groups told him to nominate. So it’s predictable that these Justices keep showing no interest in bailing Trump out. Trump never had any understating of how politics works, and now he seems shocked that it’s turned out to be his undoing.