A One-Sided Battle of the Sleazebags

 

     Former MSNBC anchor and legal analyst Katie Phang had a field day on her new Youtube channel with Donnie Dumbo's explosion over Leo Leo, the name you'd expect of a bad one hit wonder 80s band. Leo Leo, as I'm sure many of you would know, is the co-chair of the Federalist Society, which really is stocked with some of the most fascist sleazebags in the Beltway since its inception in 1982. 

    Leo has for decades been one of the biggest right wing power brokers in Washington for the last couple of decades. A recommendation from Leo during a Republican administration is the closest there was to a guarantee of one psychopath or another getting in the federal judiciary, even the Supreme Court. Leo's influence was such that his Amen for one nominee or another changed the dynamic of the US Senate. Look at the clown show that surrounded Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation process. You have Leo Leo to thank for that.

    But a few days ago, Trump attacked Leo Leo to the point of calling him "a real sleazebag" and even accusing him of "hating America". This was brought about by a ruling from a three judge panel looking into the legal merits of Trump using tariffs by hiding behind the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The panel ruled against him. The IEEP would've essentially allowed Trump to bypass Congress and to collect tariffs from other countries despite the very fact that the  Constitution gives Congress the ability to collect and set tariffs, not the Executive.

    Hours later, an appellate court that obviously hasn't read the Constitution reinstated the tariffs on a temporary basis so for the time being, Trump got what he wanted.

    But the raging toddler currently masquerading as the president couldn't take the idea that the federal judiciary blocked him getting what he wanted for even a few hours. And, of course, he raged on Truth Social against the three judge panel, calling their ruling "so political!" But, of course, in his always disproportionate rage, he couldn't stop there. He had to go after Leo Leo and the entire Federalist Society for making recommendations that he himself firmed up into nominations and, more often than not, actual appointments. So what did Leo Leo and the Federalist Society do? Well, the Federalist Society refused to comment but Leo Leo wet his pants, rolled over to show his belly and released this statement:

 

    Way to go, Leo. Keep a civil tongue on that jackboot. 

    But Trump has spent his entire life evading responsibility for his countless fuckups. He was taught this by his old consigliere and former Joe McCarthy Garden of Eden serpent, Roy Cohn, who'd taught him back in the 70s and 80s to always go on the offensive, never admit to wrongdoing, etc. While I have zero sympathy for Leo Leo, a guy who was largely instrumental for turning the federal judiciary into the festering neo Nazi hellhole and cesspit it is today, it's amusing that Trump would go after such a faithful and unwavering ally and even his entire organization.

    Katie Phang simply and succinctly called it a classic case of Trump "biting the hand that feeds him."

    Leo Leo is the very reason Roe v Wade isn't on the books, anymore. He's the reason why the SCOTUS put Citizen's United and hundreds of other horrible rulings on the books and why the high court has a rock-solid 6-3 right wing majority. And he's probably the reason why Merrick Garland didn't even get a Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

     It's like a guy who buys a house then hires shoddy contractors only to blame the realtor who sold him the listing.

     And it's Trump's megalomania that leads him to continually refer to himself in the third person as if he's the protagonist of The Great American Novel that shows he doesn't give a shit about tariffs except as a cudgel and pimp stick to bring other under nations to bear any more than he actually cared about Roe v Wade. It's about himself, always has been and always will be. 

     And Trump honestly thinks that by nominating people to one federal bench or another that they need to show their gratitude by giving him whatever he wants. And when they don't, when they show some momentary regard for the rule of law, he turns into that three year-old in the supermarket who doesn't get that bag of Twizzlers he demands and everybody has to listen to the screams.