Trump filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to rehear his birthright citizenship case. The Court already rejected it once. He wants them to reconsider their rejection.
This is the legal equivalent of asking your ex to reconsider breaking up with you after she's already married someone else and moved to a different state. The Supreme Court denied cert. That means they don't want to hear it. They're not playing hard to get.
The man has form here. He already petitioned the Court to reconsider their denial of his E. Jean Carroll appeal. That's two reconsideration requests in active rotation. He's building a portfolio of rejected petitions like a day trader collecting worthless options contracts.
Rehearing petitions succeed roughly 0.05% of the time. The Supreme Court grants maybe one or two per term out of thousands filed. Those odds make FD calls on a penny stock look like Treasury bonds.
But here's the thing about long shots. They're long for a reason. The Court doesn't reverse itself because you asked really nicely twice. They don't have a customer service department where you escalate complaints.
Retail traders understand this instinctively when they blow up their accounts. They don't call their broker and ask for a do-over on that leveraged NVDA position. They don't file a petition with the NYSE to reconsider whether their shares are actually worthless. They take the loss and move on.
Trump appears to have discovered a legal strategy even dumber than revenge trading. He's asking the house to reconsider whether he actually lost after they've already swept his chips off the table. The Court said no. They're not going to un-no it because he filed more paperwork.
This is what happens when you confuse persistence with strategy and desperation with due diligence.
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