TRUMP’S—AND OUR—LEGAL MATTERS PART 1

STEVE CORBIN REPORTS IN THE FULCRUM, May 21, 2025, “As of May 1—101 days into the Trump 2.0 administration— the highly credible Bloomberg News reported over 328 lawsuits have been filed against Mr. Trump’s executive orders, proclamations, and policy decisions and Cabinet members’ actions.” 

In that Bloomberg News assessment, “In Court, Trump is Losing More Than He’s Winning,” Zoe Tillman and Christopher Cannon write, “Courts entered more than 200 orders stopping the administration’s actions in 128 cases, with judges sometimes ruling at multiple stages of the legal fights. Judges had allowed contested policies to go ahead in 43 cases, and hadn’t ruled yet in more than 140 others. Most cases are in the early stages, and new ones are being filed daily.”

And who’s paying for all these litigations involving the Queens Felon? Either way and on either side, we taxpayers are. 

Here are tidbits on these details from respected sources—respected, as you might guess, by all but the Queens Felon himself.

Followers Duped into Paying Lawyers. More than a year ago, Daniel I. Weiner and Owen Bacskai described “Trump’s Use of Campaign Funds to Pay Legal Bills,” in the Brennan Center for Justice, May 10, 2024: “Since leaving office,” they wrote, “former president Trump has been involved in an array of criminal and civil litigation — some that relates to his campaigns and presidency and some that does not. To cover the enormous legal bills, estimated at more than $100 million, he has turned to his political action committees (PACs), essentially having campaign donors pay costs for which he would otherwise be on the hook personally.”

“Notably,” Weiner and Bacskai observe, “there is a lot of crossover between the lawyers Trump has paid to handle his political matters and those working on personal cases. For instance, Trump has paid nearly $6 million of donor money to the law firm Chris Kise and Associates, which has been involved in both the New York civil fraud investigation and the classified documents case.”

Weiner and Bacskai continue, “A lot of this spending falls into legal gray areas, but thanks to loopholes in the law and lackluster enforcement, it is likely to continue until Congress takes steps to shore up existing rules and enact broader campaign finance safeguards.”

Let’s see the hands of those expecting quick action on the Hill.    

Trump and His Old Pals, the Federalist Society. By way of background, from its avowed purpose, “The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order.”

Wrote Trump in his Truth Social post, May 29, 2025, “I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges. I did so, openly and freely, but then realized that they were under the thumb of a real ‘sleazebag’ named Leonard Leo, a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions.” Further on in his lengthy diatribe he added, “Backroom ‘hustlers’ must not be allowed to destroy our Nation!”

Gee, other examples of Trump Freudian slips? How often he reveals his own shortcomings in demeaning others. In any case, his Truth Social posting is just another example of an evolution to full autocracy.

Tomorrow in Part 2, our analyses continue: We talk real money, we sum up the Queens Felon’s litigious history, and there’s even an educational view of all this from LSAT. 

© Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2025