'MAGA Marco Puts On A SCOTUS-Defying Show For Trump'

"The Hollow Man"

"During his 15 years on the national political stage, Marco Rubio has never come across as a man with a consolidated moral center or core. It takes a lot for that kind of inner emptiness to stand out in Congress, but Rubio always did. Still, his self-reinvention as MAGA Marco is an incarnation that I could not have imagined when he first ran for the Senate in 2010."

"While MAGA Marco remains susceptible to deserving mockery, the newest version of himself is unmistakably dark, sinister, and menacing in ways that aren’t so easily dismissed. To show his MAGA bona fides, Rubio has destroyed USAID, revoked international student visas and green cards, negotiated with El Salvador to use its notorious prison for American citizens, and is now openly defying a Supreme Court order, putting him at the forefront a historic constitutional clash between the executive and judicial branches."

"The display Rubio put on during yesterday’s interminable reality TV Cabinet meeting was astonishing to watch. He didn’t just put the Trump administration on a more direct collision course with the Supreme Court in the case of the mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He did so with contempt for the judicial branch, a cavalier disregard of the rule of law, and a glass-jawed swagger that begs for a court to take him down a few pegs:"

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/maga-marco-puts-on-a-scotus-defying-show-for-trump