The Supreme Court’s shadow-docket blessing of Donald Trump’s ballroom was always going to draw reviews. And y’all — Ty Cobb has THOUGHTS.
The former Hogan & Lovells partner, who left Biglaw to serve as special counsel in the first Trump White House, has since made it his apparent life’s mission to say out loud what everyone outside of MAGAland is thinking. This is a man who has not exactly been stingy with alarm bells. Cobb has warned there are no “guardrails” left around Trump, called the president’s crypto self-dealing the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind, and gone on cable to flatly describe a useless Congress and an “evil” President.
Anyway, the extremely opinionated Cobb turned up on CNN last night to react to the East Wing being turned into a monument to gold leaf. And his objection wasn’t only about the law.
Asked about Chief Justice John Roberts’s dissent, the one that noted the ballroom’s plain illegality before the majority shrugged and decided no one had standing to say so, Cobb got a little sentimental.
“I mean, it certainly touched me because, as somebody who had spent a lot of time in the White House and in or about the grounds, it was a beautiful setting and a historic setting,” Cobb said.
Emphasis on the past tense, before delivering the bon mot: “It’s turning into, you know, some combination of a whorehouse and Las Vegas at this stage of the game with all the gold and paving of it,” he said. “So, it’s tragic what’s going on. But sadly, it’s going to continue, at least for the time being.”
Say what you want about a whorehouse, at least it’s honest about the transaction. Here the majority dressed political favoritism in a poor imitation of standing doctrine and called it a day.
Watch the full appearance below.
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