At a time when Donald Trump has declared war on the truth, it was heartening to see two federal district court judges have the courage to call out Trump’s rationales for sending troops to Portland and Chicago as blatantly untrue – one of the judges said that rationale was “untethered to the facts”.
And at a time when the United States supreme court has been so craven and deferential toward Trump, it was gratifying to see that these lower court judges had the guts to do what the high court’s six conservative justices have been utterly unwilling to do: speak truth to Trump’s power.
