…Ty Cobb, a former federal prosecutor who was special White House counsel for a year in the first Trump administration, sees widespread legal repercussions from the administration’s battles against judges.
“For the first time since 1826, the government no longer gets the benefit of the doubt about the honesty of their representations,” before the lower courts, Cobb said. “The longstanding ‘presumption of regularity’ has been forfeited because of the overwhelming number of lies which have increasingly infected administration claims.”
Looking ahead, Cobb noted: “Trump’s continuing attacks on the judiciary, over the clearly stated objection of the chief justice, is just fascism at work. He is purposely denigrating the branch of government that must apply the Constitution to his corruption and overreach in order to accumulate more power for himself.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/trump-lower-court-judges-challenges
