During a conversation this morning on “Coffee with the Contrarians,” rights attorney and frequent Trump administration legal nemesis Norman Eisen kicked off the conversation with a simple question about where things stand in relation to President Donald Trump’s attack on the rule of law.
According to Eisen, Trump’s growing stink-pile of defeats speak volumes.
“I don't think that people walked into Trump 2.0 thinking this is some sort of unstoppable juggernaut [this time],” said host Adam Klasfeld. “He is losing and he is losing repeatedly. He’s lost 22 times in the courts while trying to get sensitive voter data.”
Eisen agreed that Trump was considered an unstoppable force when he swaggered back into the White House for his second term, despite being a convicted felon on multiple counts. Aided by a willing Republican Congressional majority, Trump slapped his name and face on everything he desired, installed hacks over the levers of government and then declared war upon his perceived political enemies.
But since then, Eisen said courts have trounced Trump’s plans, and his appointees have failed or come under attack.
And it goes further than the presidents attempted military occupations of U.S. cities, his idiot “Liberation Day” tariffs and his birthright citizenship ban,” said Eisen.
His former election lawyer Harmeet Dhillon “is 0-22 (so far) in her effort to grab sensitive voter-roll information from states across the country and Washington, D.C. Nationwide protests forced his administration to abandon an archipelago of immigration warehouses,” said Eisen.
And even though universities, law firms, and media companies rolled over for Trump at first, they’re now pushing back and lobbing roundhouse kicks in court.
But it’s more than these things, too, said Eisen.
“Earlier this week, we filed a [promising] brief … [against] further construction of that Versailles-style let-them-eat-cake Trump Antoinette Ballroom that Donald Trump is building to replace the East Wing. And we told the Supreme Court, leave the injunction in place. This is a totally illegal activity.”
Eisen, a former diplomat, said Trump’s people also bungled their filing in the Davey Hearn Reflecting Pool case by failing to mention evidence showing Trump falsely accused Hearn — which will likely deep-six their case for good.
“The ostrich approach never works in the practice of law,” said Eisen, who then ticked off a list of previous mistakes Trump’s DOJ flubbed in that case.
And then there’s Kennedy Center case, where the judge has asked for new information that is likely to derail Trump’s crusade to put his name on things that don’t belong to him.
“They take down Donald Trump's name, they hide it with a tarp, and then they say, ‘oh, instead of putting his name above, we're gonna put his name below,’ said Eisen, interrupting the interview with laughter.
Eisen’s partners at the Washington Litigation Group, working with his Democracy Defenders Fund, is also taking on the toxic site Trump created with his DC-wide construction projects.
“Like the toxic dirt that Trump removed. He piled a mountain of it, dumped in the middle of a public golf course in D.C., East Potomac Park, full of chromium and arsenic and lead and left it there to blow around the golf course and the children's playground, leech into the water table in D.C.,” said Eisen, who predicted a very easy win by mixing toxic soil with kids.
But one of the biggest things working against Trump, in addition to court judges, appears to be voters, who Eisen said “are way ahead” of what judges are thinking in dumping Trump and the regime and allies connected to him.
