Stopping Trump, Legally

JUST THE OTHER DAY a friend of mine suggested that some people who hate Trump will never ever give him credit for doing anything right, no matter what he does.I allowed as that was the case,and added that I am among those, although it isn't really true. Recently, for example, Trump reclassified marijuana, changing it from a schedule 1 drug,with an addiction and damage severity classification equal to cocaine and heroine,to a schedule 3 drug, a looser, more lenient, more harmlessly recreational status. Marijuana smokers are essentially self medicating, practicing medicine without a license, not comitting some horrible crime worthy of arrest and incarceration. Drug abuse is a medical problem, and should not become a legal one. In fact I applaud not only Trump's rare good deed, and even his harmless ones, both of which are few and far between, as we say. Great though the harm done by Trump is, our federal judicial system, throughout his entire second administration,has been doing its job, stepping in where needed, and saving the nation from Trump's fascist tyranny.It happened, as a matter of fact, twice, yesterday. The Supreme Court, in a six to three vote, ruled that Trump cannot insert the national guard into the city of Chicago without the invitation and consent of its governor; for now. The "for now" part sounds omninous, allowing the court to circumvent its own ruling at a later time. One wonders whether this ruling applies to every city in the United States; the mere fact that it was issued by the SCOTUS, the highest court in the land and whose jurisdiction includes the entire country, would ensure that indeed it does. The very thought of Donald Trump, much less any other president, ordering the national guard or other military units into any American city at will, and occuptying them, is unthinkable. We all know damned good and well that this is precisely what Trump would love to do, but only to heavily Democratic cities. The high court ruled that Trump never demonstrated any need or reason for doing this, and that no president can do so without good cause, and never simply because he or she chooses to do so for political reasons. In its other enlightened rendering, SCOTUS ruled that all federal disaster relief funding must be restored to those states where Trump had recently cut it. As one might guess, Trump had cut disaster funding for states governed by or populated by a majority of Democrats. No, there is no end to this person's cruety and pettiness. Anyone who fails to join MAGA and seig heil Trump, left to die of hunger homelessness after a hurricane or earthquake, apparently the policy of choice of Trump and his supporters. No disaster help for Democrats. Amazingly cruel and petty. Trump supporters might object to this characterization, but cannot dany it with facts. Can you imagine Trump invading our cities with our own citizens every tiem the notion strikes him? Perish the thought. He had the sheer audacity and criminality to whimsically re-appropriate federal funds duly authorized and designated by Congress, based entirely on personal loyalty, or lack thereof, to him. A flagrant disregard for the law, in evident pursuit of dictatorial powers. Arguably, the federal coursts are not only saving our democracy, they are doing so directly on behalf of the people. Tyrants, especially when they become desperate, inevitably end up ignoring the court system, often attacking it, as Trump does, and destroying it, as Trump will probably try to do. Ultimately preserving our democracy and defending it against fascism is our responsibility, and to do this the courts are only one of the tools at our disposal. For our own sake we had better use them well, and use them all.