Sometimes people ask me legal questions about how certain conservative judges make their decisions when it seems to run counter to general legal policies like standing and precedence and the answer is simple:

They don’t give a fuck.

They don’t care about the law. They were appointed by Trump and his cultist followers in state houses and the Senate to accomplish certain goals and if the law gets in the way, just to ignore it.

That’s why it must be really hard to be a law professor these days. You have to say “Here’s the law, unless some judge wants to completely ignore it.”

This just confirms the main theme from my book about the Constitution that came out a few years ago: All law is politics. It’s just so much more political these days than it has ever been in my lifetime.