'SEE YOU IN COURT'—another legal misfire from team Trump

In the annals of "Ready, fire, aim!" legal strategies, Donald Trump and his West Wing team from the island of misfit operatives have really outdone themselves.

The executive order perhaps best described as "malevolence tempered by incompetence" has delivered an almost unbroken succession of court losses to team Trump, with the latest and biggest from the Ninth Circuit culminating in the popular vote loser's "SEE YOU IN COURT" declaration.

Some unfortunate soul was then clearly tasked with explaining to Trump that he had been to court in Washington v. Trump—twice, in fact—and lost pretty miserably and decisively both times. Sure, Trump's minions spent two weeks claiming the order had been totally vetted by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, yet the Justice Department lawyer tasked with representing Trump in the Ninth Circuit proceedings delivered a halting, thoroughly unconvincing performance. Anyone who listened to August Flentje suggest the proceedings were moving too "fast" to provide a rationale for Trump’s order could almost hear him thinking, "If only this thing had been written by anyone with even a thin patina of competence, I might be able to defend it." 

The revelation that the Steves (Bannon/Miller) had tag teamed a legally indefensible order once again produced a round of crystal clear confusion from the White House late Friday.

Within minutes of each other, Trump said he might issue "a brand new order" while chief of staff Reince Priebus declared, "Every single court option is on the table, including an appeal of the Ninth Circuit decision on the TRO to the Supreme Court." 

And so here we sit on Monday, while Trump and his henchmen lay the ground work for a major security disaster—at once committing epic security blunders while teeing up the courts for blame.