It’s not just a ridiculous argument that a president has full immunity to break any law he wants, it’s a stupid argument yet, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court has decided to hear the case.
Two lower courts already rejected Trump’s claim of immunity and the Supreme Court could have allowed that to stand by not taking the case but now by taking the case, SCOTUS has effectively delayed the federal trial of election interference, on Donald Trump trying to steal the 2020 election and inciting an insurrection.
Donald Trump claims his attempts to steal the election were his official duties.
SCOTUS has intentionally delayed the trial. This is the only reason I believe they took the case. SCOTUS can not allow Trump to have immunity from crimes committed while president (sic) because if they do that, they do it for every president in the future…and the current one. Unless of course, they somehow rule that it’s OK for Trump to do it but not other presidents (sic) and let Clarence write the majority opinion. That’s how most Republicans feel anyway. Happy wife, happy life.
SCOTUS knows they can’t rule for Trump in this but with three of the justices being Trump appointees, another whose wife tried to help Trump commit the crimes he’s howling he has immunity for, and another who’s simply just a vile easily bribed troglodyte, they have given Trump the gift of delay.
SCOTUS has decided to take the case and hear it in April. This means they probably won’t issue a ruling until June. This means if the trial starts before the election, it probably won’t start until September or October and end after the election in November. Or, the Justice Department may not want to give the appearance of interfering with the election and hold off until 2025.
Because of these delays, voters will not get a chance to hear the evidence that Trump sought to steal the last election before they decide whether to vote for him in the current one.
And, if Trump retakes the White House, possibly by successfully stealing it this time, whichever goon he appoints as Attorney General will drop both federal cases against him.
At the very least, SCOTUS could have fastracked this. They’ve done it before. When the Florida Supreme Court ruled there should be a statewide recount of undervotes that tabulation machines had missed, about 61,000, the Bush Campaign took it to the Supreme Court on December 8, 2000. On December 12, with a majority opinion written by Antonin Scalia, the court ruled 5-4 that counting every vote would hurt Bush. Seriously. They took five days to decide to hand the election to George W Bush on a bunch of bullshit. Two of the justices were appointed by Bush’s father but naturally, they didn’t recuse themselves.
But five days. It only took them five days to hear the case and issue a ruling. Today’s Supreme Court could take up the ruling now and issue a ruling by Monday. But they will not do that because it would hurt Donald Trump.
This court is intentionally helping Donald Trump. The irony here is that SCOTUS is tampering with the next election with a case about election tampering.
We should at least be as outraged by this as Republicans are about shit they make up.
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You forgot to mention that Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to rule on this issue directly, before the Appeals Court and they turned him down. And now that the Appeals Court has ruled definitively, SCOTUS wants to take up the case. Something is really, really fishy.
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I suspect their plan all along, Steve, was to cause this delay. They (SCOTUS) are a shady, shady, bunch! I recently saw a car magnet that says “My Crunch Wrap is more Supreme than the Court”. I need to get myself one since it’s definitely the way I’m feeling about those jokers.
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