President Donald Trump’s legal setbacks are stacking up faster than a friendly Supreme Court can undo them, according to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance.
Vance, who served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, walked through a string of courtroom developments in four cities in a Thursday post on her Substack, Civil Discourse. Each one, she argued, went badly for the Trump administration.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman threw out the indictment against Davey Hearn, the Olympian the Trump administration blamed for damage to the Reflecting Pool. Edelman dismissed the case with prejudice, which bars prosecutors from refiling it. His order noted the government had already concluded no crime occurred.
“The government has no right to retain the ability to compound the errors it has already made, or even to threaten to do so, at Mr. Hearn’s expense,” Edelman wrote.
In Seattle, a federal judge sided with Roger Rogoff, the U.S. attorney appointed by the court after the administration ran out of time to keep an interim pick in place without Senate confirmation. The Trump administration had fired Rogoff as soon as he was appointed.
In Minneapolis, the family of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE officer, filed two civil suits. Vance wrote that if the cases reach discovery, the depositions and records involved “could make this a revelatory legal exercise and not a welcome one for Trump administration officials.”
And in Chicago, U.S. District Judge April Perry launched a fact-finding process into whether the U.S. attorney’s office misled her in the Broadview 6 case, a prosecution of six anti-ICE protesters. Vance called the step highly unusual and noted it could end in sanctions, up to and including criminal contempt.
Vance acknowledged that some of these fights will land before a Supreme Court that has repeatedly sided with Trump. “But not every case reaches the Supreme Court and not every bit of accountability the lower courts create can be undone there,” she wrote.
“That’s a lot of cases to keep track of in just one day,” Vance wrote. “But the unprecedented deluge is proof of just how off the rails the Trump presidency is.”
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