{"id":148261,"date":"2026-04-08T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/08\/trumps-awful-no-good-day-at-the-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:50:57","slug":"trumps-awful-no-good-day-at-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/08\/trumps-awful-no-good-day-at-the-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Awful No Good Day At The Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Trump\u2019s effort to erase birthright citizenship from the Constitution via executive order, and it went as poorly for the administration as expected. But that didn\u2019t deter Trump from taking the unprecedented step of <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/donald-trump-went-to-supreme-court-to-watch-live-as-birthright-citizenship-policy-got-thoroughly-smoked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attending the argument personally<\/a>. The president didn\u2019t last the whole time though, heading for the exit mid-proceeding as it became clear that his Solicitor General was getting boatraced by the competition. Afterward, the graduates of the Twitter School of Law ran to their computers to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/responses-to-justice-jacksons-birthright-citizenship-argument-show-theres-some-stupid-you-shouldnt-argue-with\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complain about Justice Jackson<\/a> because\u2026 racism. Meanwhile, a Texas judge earns <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/judge-throws-it-worker-out-of-courtroom-for-doing-his-job\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">viral infamy for sniping at an IT worker<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/judge-who-embarrassed-himself-with-it-outrburst-doubles-down\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doubled down on arrogance<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/pam-bondi-youre-fired\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Attorney General got canned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/trumps-awful-no-good-day-at-the-supreme-court\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Awful No Good Day At The Supreme Court<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/GettyImages-1403235906-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photographer: Samuel Corum\/Bloomberg)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Trump\u2019s effort to erase birthright citizenship from the Constitution via executive order, and it went as poorly for the administration as expected. But that didn\u2019t deter Trump from taking the unprecedented step of <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/donald-trump-went-to-supreme-court-to-watch-live-as-birthright-citizenship-policy-got-thoroughly-smoked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attending the argument personally<\/a>. The president didn\u2019t last the whole time though, heading for the exit mid-proceeding as it became clear that his Solicitor General was getting boatraced by the competition. Afterward, the graduates of the Twitter School of Law ran to their computers to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/responses-to-justice-jacksons-birthright-citizenship-argument-show-theres-some-stupid-you-shouldnt-argue-with\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complain about Justice Jackson<\/a> because\u2026 racism. Meanwhile, a Texas judge earns <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/judge-throws-it-worker-out-of-courtroom-for-doing-his-job\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">viral infamy for sniping at an IT worker<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/judge-who-embarrassed-himself-with-it-outrburst-doubles-down\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doubled down on arrogance<\/a>. And <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/pam-bondi-youre-fired\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Attorney General got canned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Trump\u2019s effort to erase birthright citizenship from the Constitution via executive order, and it went as poorly for the administration as expected. But that didn\u2019t deter Trump from taking the unprecedented step of attending the argument personally. The president didn\u2019t last the whole time though, heading for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1403235906-vKs7Rt.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}