First, E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million is safe. Trump owes it, personally. Even so, he will doubtlessly soon seek cert., from the Supremes, on the other $83 million he owes here — but that too will fail. It is encouraging that from this correct decision, there were no dissents. Pay up, dotard — you are a serial sexual predator. That is simply a fact, beyond contestation now. The Supremes were your last avenue. Period.

It is encouraging also, that “geo-fence” warrants are now clearly “searches” under the Fourth Amendment. Many states’ highest courts had so held, but now the Supremes make that federal precedent, as well. This means all such warrant requests must be evaluated as to reasonablness, given the individual circumstances, under the Fourth Amendment’s long-standing jurispridence.

Without any serious doubt, the Supremes held off on announcing these two rulings (that would enrage Tangerine 2.0) — until they could hand down the cases expanding his powers, and overruling Humphrey’s Executor — departing from a long line of cases that hold Congress must act, if an independent agency head is to be fired by the executive branch, for political reasons.

This is nonsense, of course. Alito and Thomas have literally created / made law, from whole cloth, here — despite the late Justice Scalia’s insistence that truly conservative Justices would do no such thing.

One final silver lining was that the Supremes held the Fed still remains a “truly untouchable” agency. Lisa Cook wins. But this only serves to underscore the sophistry deeply embedded in the other firings holdings from Alito and Thomas.

All I can say to the MAGA/Tangerine folks is… be careful what you wish for. When a Democratic President takes office — all of your BS will be wiped clean, from the face of the Earth — a new clean slate. Bank on it. Your wins here are entirely pyrrhic. Damn. Out.

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