A former White House ethics lawyer who has been a persistent thorn in the side of Donald Trump is actually celebrating parts of the Supreme Court's recent rulings widely seen as favorable to the president.
Legal expert Norm Eisen, who worked in the White House as special counsel and special assistant to the president for ethics and government reform, is also known for responding to Trump's direct attacks against him. In one instance, Trump said of the attorney, "He’s been after me for nine years."
On Saturday, he published a piece called, "Contrarians to SCOTUS: we got your class action right here," in which he argues that there are still mechanisms to challenge Trump even after the Supreme Court decisions.
"Friday’s landmark Roberts Court decision limiting nationwide injunctions in the context of the birthright citizenship cases was yet another of the compromises that it has carved out over the first five months of Trump’s second term. The Supreme Court curtailed the scope of the existing injunctions of President Donald Trump's grossly unconstitutional executive order purporting to choose which babies born here are citizens," he wrote. "Though I vehemently disagree with much in the opinion, we must not overlook that it left in place the injunctions as to the plaintiffs in the cases, and when the findings of unconstitutionality in these cases reach the Supreme Court, they will be upheld."
Eisen continued:
"Moreover, the court opened the road to class actions as an alternative vehicle to achieve the same nationwide coverage. We at Democracy Defenders Fund, together with other wonderful colleagues, had one on file within hours."
He further added, "And we will deal with the Court’s opinion by fighting twice as hard in the courts."