Weekend Report: Trump surrendered to Iran. And it’s closed the strait again

Also: Stunning Supreme Court memos expose John Roberts. And FBI director Kash Patel is drunk on the job, according a report about which he’s threatening legal action.

On Friday Donald Trump was trying to spin a humiliating surrender to Iran as a win, desperate to get out of the war he started but also claim some sort of victory. Trump bowed to Iran’s demand to stop Israel’s bombing of Lebanon in return for reopening the strait. Then we learned the U.S. would be handing Iran $20 billion in money that was frozen—after Trump and MAGA had attacked President Obama for doing so in 2016 with a mere $400 million owed to Iran. Then, overnight, Iran had more demands and closed the strait again.

Secret Supreme Court memos, obtained by the New York Times, show the origin of the court’s corrupt “shadow docket,” in which cases are decided on a so-called emergency basis, without any debate or public record. These rulings have allowed Trump to get away with imposing orders well before a court decision on the merits. It apparently all goes back to 2016, in a decision against President Obama’s environmental policy, and it further confirms Chief Justice John Roberts is a hack who is there to protect corporate interests.

FBI director Kash Patel is threatening a lawsuit regarding a report that adds a new twist to his showing up in Milan to chug beers with the U.S. men’s hockey team at the Winter Olympics a few months ago. Employees at the FBI describe him sometimes completely intoxicated on the job, often passed out, with his security detail having to wake him. Other times he’s just absent, and apparently he just last week had a paranoid “freak out” when he couldn’t access computers and thought Trump had fired him.

A Weekend Report after another week of madness…