"Unshackled" by Coffee & Covid

UNSHACKLED ☙ Friday, June 26, 2026 ☙ Coffee and Covid News--Jeff Childers:

“… As I explained, the Court has essentially held that federal courts have no business reviewing the administration’s decision to terminate TPS. That is a structural precedent: it swells presidential discretion (“unshackling”) over a major immigration program and shrinks judicial checks.

Most importantly: this SCOTUS decision affects all future administrations and countries (not just Haiti and Syria).

Don’t miss the staggering implication: President Trump is finding ‘Plan B’ strategies to make his executive orders permanent, without needing new laws from Congress. He’s driving the migrant bus around the uncooperative legislative branch to the courthouse.

Since Republicans in the Senate won’t help, Trump is getting help from a surprising source: Democrat lawfare. Whenever the Supreme Court decides a case, it makes binding law. Thus, future presidents can’t just reverse Trump’s executive orders, since the legal precedent has confirmed them.

Trump’s team realized there are two sources for law: the Legislative branch and the Judicial branch. He’s not bothering much with the messy, delayed, and often unsatisfying business of lawmaking in the House and Senate sausage factories.

That’s why the Democrats and their socialist allies are so upset. They should have kept out of all the lawfare, but they just can’t help themselves. It’s like an OCD. But they are starting to catch on now, waking up to how Trump is using their reflexive litigation against them.

For example, yesterday, Gavin “Slick Willy 2.0” Newsom —discussing his 2028 run on his own podcast— said the Court needs to be expanded to 13 Justices. “We gotta win; we gotta consolidate power,” he explained. He talked about Court packing more than he did about Democrats needing to win back the House or Senate.

Finally, let’s tie some threads together. How about something really cool to think about? President Trump has often said he’d pass the SAVE Act by executive order if Congress doesn’t. Nobody knew what he meant. But here’s the thing— federal law already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections. That law is already on the books.

The problem is, apart from a handful of red states, nobody bothers to enforce that federal law. Well, guess what?

Last year, President Trump issued an executive order to proactively enforce existing election law by requiring states to verify legal ID for voting. Then, of course, Democrats sued in several blue jurisdictions. The cases are working their way through several courts right now. Many cases mean many shots on the SCOTUS goal.

In fact, and coincidentally, this week, Trump lost in a liberal Massachusetts court…

The decision teed that particular case up for appeal, which puts it on track for SCOTUS review.

Among other proposed changes, President Trump’s order would require people to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote, prevent mail ballots from being counted if they arrive after Election Day, even if they were postmarked by then, and punish non-compliant states by withholding federal money.

Next, imagine that the Supreme Court upholds parts or all of Trump’s executive order as constitutional. That would take even more shackles off the President and allow him to enforce existing laws, which is literally the Executive Branch’s primary purpose.

One of the ways Trump upholds his “Trump always wins” brand is through maintaining multiple paths to victory. This week’s SCOTUS decisions already set the progressive world afire. I can’t wait to find out what next week will deliver.” …….