🚨SCOTUS Just WARNED TRUMP on ELECTIONS…

The Supreme Court ruled against Donald. Trump once and twice. And that's a big. deal for two Supreme Court rulings. against Donald Trump in one week. And. they both relate basically to the same. case. The Supreme Court is sending a. message to Donald Trump. And this. relates to the attempt by the MAGA. Republican Secretary of State and. Attorney General and leadership in. Missouri to use a new map, a 7:1. gerrymandered map that would have seven.

Republican seats, one Democratic. congressional seat. The prior map had. six Republican seats, two Democratic. seats. The Missouri State Supreme Court. in a ruling that took place in the past. two weeks or so made the ruling. unanimously seven to zero. And there's. five right-wing justices, two left-wing. justices on the Missouri State Supreme. Court. And they said, "Look, you want to. do a change of map, you can do it, but.

you got to do a referendum. And you can. do the referendum November on the. midterm election day. And then for the. future, we can do the gerrymandering if. that's what the voters so choose. But. that's what our Missouri state. constitution says. You can't block the. ability to do a referendum, Missouri. Secretary of State, then utilize the. problems you create as an extraordinary. circumstance pretext to force through a.

map from the legislature that changes. the valid map without doing the. referendum because you create the. problems that blocks the referendum. We. we know what you're doing. And even. though Missouri uh Secretary of State. the primaries already took place and. voters relied on the new 7:1 maps that. you created at least for the primaries. Too bad, so sad. Return it to the 62 map. right now. We warned you in the past and.

other state courts warned you in the. past that this could be the result. you. chose to ignore that so you could create. the problem and then say, "Oops, we. can't undo it now because the primaries. were happen." And the Missouri State. Supreme Court said, "We still have a. state constitution and we're going to. abide by that." And then because that. reached the highest level of the. Missouri State Court system, the place. that you would appeal that first would. not be a federal court. You'd have to. file a new lawsuit. you would appeal.

that to the United States Supreme Court. and make some supremacy clause argument. that somehow federal law trumps the. state law on elections which doesn't. make any sense because we all know place. time manner in the constitution of. elections is a state issue. So, Justice. Kavanaaugh uh and the Supreme Court. immediately rejected the emergency. petition from the Missouri MAGA. government where they tried to get the. Supreme Court to overturn the Missouri. state supreme court's ruling. So, that.

was number one Supreme Court rejects. what the MAGA Missouri AG and Secretary. of State were trying to pull. But then. the MAGA state AG and Secretary of State. had another trick up their sleeve. They. said, "All right, we're going to go and. file a lawsuit in federal court. Hope we. get a Trumpappointed judge to draw the. case." And they did. And then maybe this. Trump appointed judge can issue an. injunction through a separate route to.

block the old map, which is the valid. map, and stay or block what the Missouri. State Supreme Court just ruled. And so. this Trumpapp appointed federal judge. really contrives some bogus legal. pretext under the constitution about. primaries which it doesn't even say any. of the stuff in the constitution at all. And it's on the basis of after a primary. if you go back to the valid map you.

deprive people of the right to vote. because they already voted based on the. unlawful map. the guy just this federal. this Trump appointed judge young guy. seemed to be a Trump bootlicker just. like made up something and so for a. short period of time the Missouri new. map the unlawful map as pronounced by. the Missouri state supreme court that. became the one that was going to be. used. You may recall that Harry Litman. and I here basically said, "We still.

believe the Supreme Court, especially. based on their ruling regarding the. emergency petition of the Missouri State. Supreme Court one and that route where. the Supreme where this United States. Supreme Court ruled, we said we think. that the Supreme Court is going to. reject what this lower court uh federal. judge Trump appointee did." Then it got. appealed to the eighth circuit because. this now has to go up this other route. of federal courts um because a new. lawsuit was filed in the district court.

There was an emergency petition to the. eighth circuit court of appeal made a. very bizarre ruling of we don't have. jurisdiction to even rule on the. district court. It's premature. We can't. get involved in it. So the district. court ruling stands. Okay, that was how. they were going to wash their hands of. it. That's how they cuz they knew that. if they addressed what the district. court judge actually said that wasn't. going to fly. And then there was a. petition emergency to the Supreme Court. to stay what the district court just did.

in basically overturning or blocking the. Missouri state supreme court ruling and. Justice Kavanaaugh made the ruling that. the Missouri state supreme court's. ruling is the one that goes into effect. the Trump appointed district court. judge's ruling is stayed or paused or. basically blocked. The all of this the. conclusion the bottom line is that the 6. to2 original map that the Missouri state.

supreme court said was the valid map is. the valid map and then there'll be a. referendum in Missouri uh in November. where the voters get to decide how they. want to deal with this. Another. noteworthy event is that the Missouri. State Supreme Court then found the. Secretary of State in Missouri, this. MAGA Republican guy, Danny Denny. Hoskins, in contempt. Let me show you. the moment where the Republicanled. Missouri State Supreme Court found Denny.

Hoskins, the MAGA Republican Secretary. of State from that state in contempt. They then uh set aside the contempt. finding because the original maps were. restored, but the contempt finding was. nonetheless made. Here, let's play. Make. this oral finding to be followed up by a. formal judgment to be issued hopefully. later today. After reviewing the pleadings in this. case and hearing oral arguments, this. case, excuse me, this court finds that.

the Secretary of State was in contempt. of its September 3rd, 2026 order in. joining him from the implementation, utilization, and mandating of the of the. use of the congressional districtricting. map in HB1. for the November 2026 general election. I want to bring in Harry Litman from the. Talking Feds YouTube channel, Substack. and Podcast. Now, Harry, two cases. Justice Kavanaaugh, who oversees that.

district. Pretty swift rulings. These. weren't like long rulings. They were one. line, one sentence, two sentence. rulings. But, you know, it seems that a. message is being sent. Look, man. Like, look, look, Trump, we're going to do. this, this, and this. If you want your. stupid ballroom, we'll stay that. There's some things that we will debase. ourselves for you for this issue right. here is one that we're going to draw the. line on. And they seem to be we we seem. to have if we were to teach a textbook.

on this awful period of Supreme Court. and we were to teach students as you and. I do in a law school and undergrad. format. It seems to be any Trump. personal verdicts against him for sexual. assault or harassment or anything like. that. This Supreme Court is not. touching. They're staying away from any. type of thing with any agency other than. the Federal Reserve or Trump's Project. 2025 machinations other than the Federal. Reserve. They're going to let him get. away with a lot of things over there on.

some of the highest level constitutional. questions, elections, citizenship, some of the most thing. That's where there's a narrow carve out. where they seem to say, "These are the. fights that we're going to stand up to. you on. We'll let you get away with. this. We'll let you get away with." What. do you make of all of this, Harry? But. that's how I think I would teach this to. students. Sadly, I'd have to teach it. that way. But I think that's some of the. lessons we're getting. >> Well, I think what you would do, Ben, is. postpone your class a week or two. because it what's going to happen in the.

USPS case is I think going to be exhibit. one if you're right and exhibit one if. you're wrong. But I do think this is a. portent that goes a little bit in the. direction of saying the court will not. let the postal service order um stay in. effect. And let me explain why. Um it. was really confusing this Missouri we. have a state court and supreme court and. then the contempt and then twice at the. US Supreme Court. Let me just uh what.

you have to do to understand is just. sort of untangle the two cases. So the. state supreme court was all based on. state law. The unanimous Supreme Court. said, "It's clear. You want to do the. legislature can't just boom do this. You. need a referendum. You didn't unanimous. goodbye.". And when we heard that Kavanaaugh had. refused to grant a stay, this was it's. reserved for really the most. ridiculously meritless cases. And that.

was one here because what were they. challenging? a state law ruling in the. Missouri Supreme Court is the ultimate. authority on the state law. There was. just nothing the Supreme Court could do. here and it's so much the case that even. a circuit justice which is all you know. that's all you usually see them refer. something to the full court when it's. that um elementary you can just say. goodbye no stay. The second one though. after it, you then had this Yahoo judge.

say this pretty crazy thing. Uh that's. you know we don't I think have to have. to go into it in depth, but remember the. independent state legislature doctrine. is these efforts by some crazy uh. judges, but they include at least two or. three members on the US Supreme Court to. get a federal kind of purchase on what. states do. when they have the main. authority within this uh one little. clause in the in the constitution.

Anyway, this judge used it and said, "Oh, no. You must use uh the. pro-Republican one. You must use the 7. to one one." And as you say, um I mean. that seemed we talked about it like. total that you must use it because of. federal law. Give me a break. that is. really a um com you know complete. meritless opinion it and so we have to. hope the A circuit was going to you know.

do a stay and right away and just as you. said they they issued this weird they. didn't say it wasn't ripe what they said. is they you they had a sort of. boilerplate page that you can use for. anything you want uh either because it's. not ripe or because of the merits or. whatever uh we won't grant a a stay so. completely. kind of uh delphic and mysterious. But. then the US Supreme Court um vacates. this crazy opinion from the uh Trump.

appointed district court, but they did. it unanimously. No registered dissents. I don't think. I've ever seen that kind of quick. treatment with all of them together. And. to the extent that the district court. judge had ered by bringing in this um. constitutional provision, you know, in. other cases, you have at least Alo and. Thomas kind of liking that. It was. really really noteworthy to me that it. was that quick. And all of them, all of.

them. And uh I may be being, you know, a. little bit too glass half full, but to. me the easiest way to explain this is. that the Supreme Court now understands. all nine of them understand whatever. they think about the underlying law that. it is just too damn late. The mail and. ballots have already some have already. started going out. And when you uh. reverse a stay, you got to find several.

things, not just who's going to win, but. the balance of equities, irreparable. harm. And I think they just see all nine. of us, not necessarily uh fellow. travelers can all come together either. on the mayors or to say the balance of. equities at this point. we let him do. this and it's going to be a guarantee of. a complete circus that that means the. balance of equities are strongly against. the administration. administration can.

go back to the drawing board, wait till. the election passes, try to do it again. But for now, the balance of equities. would go the other way. If I'm right. about um and you know, it's just like. trying to tease out little little tea. leaves that that would um suggest that. when they they already now have it. We've got both sides having briefed on. the postal service um case. And that's a. really really big one, Ben, because in. general, the administration has these.

different irons in the fire and they'll. try to do this and try to do that. This. would be, I think, the last one that. would permit them to just disenfranchise. untold numbers of uh voters at a stroke. And what the, you know, I like to hope. the Missouri unanimous opinion, fast. opinion from the Supreme Court portends. is a similar treatment of this case, the. really important US Postal Service case.

on the ground that whatever we think. about the merits, whatever the reparable. harm, it's just now the balance of. equities are disproportionately against. uh the administration because they would. be just creating complete Bendum. So. that to me is how the Missouri case and. the you know and the unusual treatment. there nudges the odds of a good. decision. That is to say not um undoing. the stay that's already in place from.

the first circuit. A good decision in. the postal service case. We'll see if. that's right or wrong in very short. order because this is emergency. application. You know both sides in. They, as far as uh I know have not. ordered a reply, so they're they're. they're ready to roll. Harry Litman runs. the Talking Feds YouTube channel. Make. sure you subscribed. I get a lot of my. legal news from Harry. He's a former top. federal prosecutor from the Western. District of Pennsylvania, clerked for. two Supreme Court justices, had a top.

position at Maine justice in DC. And so. he knows a lot. It's where I get a lot. of info from. After this video ends, search Talking Feds and uh tell Harry. that I say hello in the comments and uh. make sure you check it out. Talking. feds. Thanks, Harry. >> Thank you, Ben. Before you go, our book. WTF America is available for pre-order. now. It's the story of how we got here. and how we fight our way back. To. pre-order, scan the QR code or click the. link in the description. Let's do this.

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