Trump Got Beat. Badly.

Proof that pushing back works

Good morning and thanks for being here. It’s been a long week of Trump’s chaos, so I’m glad to have some good news for you today. A lot of it.

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Nebraska Judge Buries RNC’s Vote-Stripping Scheme

The RNC has a plan: sue state after state until Americans living abroad come off the voter rolls. This week in Nebraska, a judge put an end to it.

Lancaster County Judge Ryan Post dismissed the case with prejudice, so Republicans can never bring it back. They were targeting a state law that lets the grown children of Nebraskans abroad—military families, missionaries, contractors—vote where their parents call home. The RNC said those votes shouldn’t count.

Only 116 people in the entire state are registered under that law. Six voted in the last primary. Republicans spent real time and money trying to erase a rounding error.

Nebraska said no. Michigan said no back in April. When your whole strategy is built on stealing elections instead of winning them, courts keep handing you the same answer.

A Federal Judge Wrecked Trump’s Harvard Case

This week, federal judge Richard Stearns dismissed Trump’s case against Harvard, a lawsuit accusing the school of violating civil rights law. The regime spent over a year on this—subpoenas, billions in federal funding held hostage, demands over who Harvard hires and what it teaches.

Stearns wrote that the regime had no basis for any of it, and Harvard not acting “within the exact confines” of the regime’s commands wasn’t one.

Judge Allison Burroughs, in an earlier case against Harvard, called the regime’s campaign a “government-initiated onslaught” that was built with the aim of control. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick even bragged on tape about the attacks on Harvard, saying officials were having “a blast” doing it.

Stearns closed the case Thursday and the regime went home with nothing.

A $927 Million Bill For Taxpayers

We already knew Trump’s construction costs would be absurd, but new estimates put the ballroom, helipad, bunker, and fountains at a whopping $927 million. Most of it is coming out of taxpayers’ pockets.

A court stopped him, ruling he had no authority to tear up the White House without Congress signing off. He swore private donors would pay for it all, and his own spokesman still won’t say where the money actually came from. Now he’s appealing to the Supreme Court.

The court reminded him he’s a temporary tenant in that house, not the owner, which is something the rest of us already knew.

Fixing The Court

For years we’ve been calling on reform in the Supreme Court, and few elected officials would ever touch it.

In Atlanta this week, Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the Court was “basically a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party.” He added everything is on the table for reform.

Great news—he doesn’t have to start from scratch. Rep. Hank Johnson has the bills written already. Changes would include adding seats to the Supreme Court, term limits, and a clear code of ethics they can actually be held accountable for breaking.

Rep. Jamie Raskin would lead the charge in Congress. The bills sit there until Democrats win the House, and not a day sooner.

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Onward!

Scott

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More seats, term limits, real ethics rules, something else entirely? If it were up to you, what would you change about the Supreme Court?

And while we’re at it—what rules would you change for members of Congress? No more dark money, term limits, recall elections?

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