Should the 9th just start making Hit up, they are going to be publicly pilloried and embarrassed. This would just be the first Salvo to soften them up for future attacks on their perfidy.
I suspect that is part of his Master Plan. It’s far past time to split up 9C, it’s much too big. Turn them into objects of ridicule—straight out of Alinsky.
The public may be more amenable to making a major change to the circuit court system after Trump is done with 9C.
And, he may be softening the ground in case he needs to go forward with the order based on solid Constitutional grounds despite an adverse ruling.