Trump is suing his own government for $10 billion

May Day, 2026 And he wants to negotiate with his own government for a settlement sum One thing about fundamental legal principles is that they are rarely expressly feature in litigation – at least not expressly. That is because they are fundamental – they are shared and assumed to apply. Such principle provide the “rules of the game” and the courts deal with disputes about things the parties do not share in common, like differing views on the facts and on the applicable law in a particular situation. This is why – at least until fairly recently – constitutional law text books both here and in the United States often did not have many recent cases as precedents or even illustrations of certain fundamental principles. An 1800s case there, a 1700s case here, some vague mention of Magna Carta, and that would be it – for paragraph after paragraph, and chapter after chapter. But the Brexit-Trump years have changed this. Such is the jolt to the United Kingdom and United States polities that…