Donald Trump is by no means an ignorant man. In fact, he is one of the more brilliant people I have ever been aware of.
Take a look at the way that he has managed to handle the past four years and change. Added to that, his way of conducting himself in a business and legal sense is one of those things that you could probably write books on.
His legal teams over the years have been some of the greatest masterminds that when you listen to them you have to know that whenever a problem comes their way you know that they can take care of it.
In a seriously shrewd set of moves befitting the author of “The Art of the Deal” President Trump has notched some court wins in an interesting way. He simply ran out the clock.
According to a story in The Hill, Trump left office with numerous cases against him and his administration still in dispute. This, legal experts are saying was a calculated move to run out the clock and avoid rulings on his policies while in office. That’s one way to deal with activist Judges.. ignore them until they just go away. He still wins.
Steven Schwinn, a law professor at the University of Illinois said,
“The administration foot-dragged and played the courts in very different ways in these cases, But the bottom line was always the same: drag these disputes out in court and effectively achieve their policy goals.”
It Only Works If The Courts Allow It
Mark Tushnet. a Harvard Law Professor threw the blame straight back at the Judges in each case, “Sometimes the claims about Trump’s actions had some weak spots, Maybe not enough to lead to an inevitable defeat for Trump, but enough to take up time in litigating.”
Trump couldn’t have done this though without judges who were willing to let the disputes drag on, said Tushnet.
“Any litigant, not just Trump, can file motions and the like with the intent to slow the pace of litigation down,” he said. “But they can succeed only if the courts are willing to go along. Litigators know that slow-walking things is always possible,” he said. “Whether other presidents try the same tactics will depend upon their sense of political and personal responsibility.”
Simply put, it seems that President Trump didn’t feel a pressing responsibility to answer politically motivated litigation. His response was as cynical as the legal efforts themselves merited.
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