Yet in February, just a few months after these companies did Trump the favor of getting Kimmel temporarily pulled, Trump supported their combination. The level of deep-seated legal corruption, and its relationship with legal elites on the Supreme Court, is important to internalize. In previous eras, to understand such a merger, you’d look at financing, merger law, national security frameworks, judicial orders, and so forth. And no matter how connected Delrahim and Ellison are, Paramount still has to get through an appeals court before going to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court could just rule quickly through what’s called a “shadow docket” to overturn the preliminary injunction.