The justices, wanting to restore Trump to the ballot, didn\u2019t address the underlying question of if he incited an insurrection<\/p>\n
Elena Kagan once referred to Jonathan Mitchell sarcastically as \u201csome genius\u201d. That was in oral arguments surrounding SB8, the bounty-hunter abortion ban that Texas succeeded in passing before the overturn of Roe v Wade, which Mitchell wrote, pioneering a cockamamie scheme for evading judicial review.<\/p>\n
Mitchell, a far-right lawyer currently vying for a spot in the second Trump administration, is a fan of this kind of bald, legal bad faith: you can\u2019t quite call him duplicitous, because he never quite pretends that the law really leads him to the conclusions he\u2019d like to reach. He\u2019s more about coming up with novel legal schemes to get to his desired outcome and trusting that the federal judiciary, captured as it is by Federalist Society acolytes and wingnut cranks, will go along with him because they share his political proclivities.<\/p>\n
Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n
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