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Donald Trump Scores Two Holes-in-None With The Contrarian Caddying--Publisher's Roundup 55 The Contrarian and Norman Eisen Feb 21 In good news for Contrarians and all Americans, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the tariffs Donald Trump imposed on a variety of nations grossly  exceed his constitutional power . Though Trump immediately threatened to reimpose tariffs in some other way and accused the justices of being “ under foreign influence , ” this is the latest of hundreds of decisions by courts at every level against him. For all our vehement disagreements with the Roberts Court’s, this also represents a triple bogey at SCOTUS with respect to Trump’s abuse of emergency powers. First, the court denied him authorization to use the Alien Enemies Act to target migrants based on bogus claims of alien invasion. Then, the court shut down his abuse of the National Guard because there was no emergency regular forces could not deal with. And now his attempt to deploy tari...

Publisher's Roundup, 10 Trump is Lashing Out Because He’s Losing Norman Eisen Mar 22 Friday was a surreal split screen for me. On the one hand, press coverage was dominated  by the capitulation to Donald Trump  of what was heretofore one of our nation’s finest and heretofore most courageous law firms, Paul Weiss . In one form or another, I’ve worked closely with them for years, and as one very senior public official asked me, “What the f**k?” The other side of the split screen was the latest salvo in Trump’s attacks on me. Throughout the day, reporters and others reached out to alert me that Trump was about to make another move against me in retaliation for my legal fights against him. I replied that I would not yield, no matter what Trump had planned, then proved it by   filing with wonderful partners my latest lawsuit  against his administration to reverse the shuttering of Voice of America. By the time   Trump’s Executive Order with my name in it   arriv...

Evening Roundup: March 13 Featuring Jeff Nesbit, Jared Bernstein, Marvin Kalb, Jess Piper, Barb McQuade, The Democracy Movement, Maria Peralta, and a massive legal victory! The Contrarian Mar 13 We Won! Federal Employees to be Re-hired Immediately Norman Eisen and The Contrarian · 6:16 PM BREAKING: A U.S. district judge just ruled that thousands of fired probationary federal workers must be reinstated. This is a huge win for federal workers and The Contrarian’s own Norm Eisen was on the front lines. Hear his thoughts just moments after leaving court now. Read full story Maria Peralta and Jen Rubin on community organizing and collective action Maria Peralta  and  Jennifer Rubin · 11:02 PM As we see more and more Americans take to the streets to rally against the Trump-Musk regime, Jen Rubin interviews Maria Peralta about the strength of grassroots organizing. Read full story Trump’s deliberate destruction of biomedical research institutions 8:00 PM The actions have gr...