PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUES WINNING AND THEN SOME. THIS TIME BY THE SUPREME COURT'S RULING; THE SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH TRUMP: ALLOWS TRUMP TO TERMINATE DEI AND GENDER-BASED GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, MANY OF WHICH WERE BEGUN UNDER DR. FAUCI, IN A 5-4 RULING. WITH JUSTICE GORSUCH; CALLING OUT LOWER COURTS AND THEIR JUDGES FOR REPEATEDLY IGNORING SUPREME COURT RULINGS. THAT IT WAS THE “THIRD TIME IN A MATTER OF WEEKS” THAT THE SUPREME COURT WAS FORCED TO REVERSE A LOWER COURT RULING ON AN ISSUE THEY HAD ALREADY RULED ON. I DO NOT SEE HOW A DISTRICT COURT CAN COMPEL COMPLIANCE WITH AN ORDER THAT THIS COURT HAS STAYED. IF NOTHING ELSE, THE PROMISE OF OUR LEGAL SYSTEM THAT LIKE CASES ARE TREATED ALIKE MEANS THAT A LOWER COURT OUGHT NOT INVOKE THE ‘PERSUASIVE AUTHORITY’ OF A DISSENT OR A REPUDIATED COURT OF APPEALS DECISION TO REACH A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION ON AN EQUIVALENT RECORD. ALL THESE INTERVENTIONS SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNNECESSARY, BUT TOGETHER THEY UNDERSCORE A BASIC TENET OF OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM: WHATEVER THEIR OWN VIEWS, JUDGES ARE DUTY-BOUND TO RESPECT ‘THE HIERARCHY OF THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM CREATED BY THE CONSTITUTION AND CONGRESS.
