The Supreme Court’s decision to hear Donald Trump’s claim that he should be shielded from criminal prosecution keeps the justices at the center of election-year controversy for several more months and means any verdict on Trump’s alleged subversion of the 2020 vote will not come before summer.
The country’s highest court wants the final word on the former president’s assertion of immunity, even if it may ultimately affirm a comprehensive ruling of the lower federal court that rejected Trump’s sweeping claim.
For Trump, Wednesday’s order amounts to another win from the justice system he routinely attacks. The justices’ intervention in the case, Trump v. United States, also marks another milestone in the fraught relationship between the court and the former president.
Cases related to his policies and his personal dealings consistently roiled the justices behind the scenes. At the same time, Trump, who appointed three of the nine justices, significantly influenced the court’s lurch to the right, most notably its 2022 reversal of nearly a half century of abortion rights and reproductive freedom.
Fuck Merrick Garland. He did this.
Biden needs to pull a Jackson and start ignoring the Supreme Court.
The entire U.S. needs to start ignoring the “supreme” court.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Wednesday’s action by the high court, made up of six conservatives and three liberals, plainly gives Trump a new measure of success and buys him more time before possible trial on election subversion in Washington, DC.
Overall, the timetable is fast compared to the regular calendar for high court briefing, oral arguments, and eventual resolution, which typically plays out over many months or close to a year.
Smith, earlier this month, cited the nature of the alleged crimes as he urged the justices to let the DC Circuit decision against presidential immunity stand and allow the case to go to trial.
Earlier in February, the Supreme Court held a special oral argument session on whether states could keep Trump off presidential ballots under a constitutional provision barring insurrectionists from holding future office.
The justices appeared ready to reverse a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that would prevent Trump from running for office because of his attempts to overturn the valid 2020 election results.
That case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleges a cover-up to conceal payments before the 2016 election to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump.
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I fear we’re headed toward a dark future. Why the SC “justices” think they’ll be spared is puzzling.
We will know by the amount of time it takes them to reach judgement on his insane argument. By June SCOTUS is fully complicit.
It shouldn’t have taken any time. They should have denied cert.
The fact that at least 4 justices granted it is beyond ridiculous.
Further, they’ve delayed the hearing until the end of April, which is extremely stupid, they are hearing cases now.
They may not even issue a decision in June with the rest of the cases, it may be next year. And if that’s the case and trump is elected, he could stop the hearing in it’s tracks by pardoning himself.
They seriously took the position "yeah, the ruling that said in this specific instance with Trump, a president cannot be immune. A perfectly reasonable take given there’s so many more mundane reasons why the FBI might convict a former president.
I disagree. I think this question is novel enough that it needs Supreme Court review, not merely letting a lower court ruling stand. That opinion needs to come out at light speed though.
This is a violation of Trump’s sixth amendment rights.
“the accused in a criminal prosecution shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial”.
I say we open a rights violation case and see if we can get him his speedy trial.
The supreme court is picking the next president, just like they did with Bush v. Gore. They are just doing it before the election, instead of after.
No less than three of the current Supreme Court “Justices” were on Bush’s legal team in Bush v. Gore.
Quite. And Bush v. Gore was in 2000; in 2001, just four months into office, Bush appointed Roberts to the DC appellate court, which was a very cushy appointment for a lawyer who’d never even been a judge.
Then, in 2005 when a Supreme Court seat finally opened up (Sandra Day O’Connor retired) Bush gave it to John Roberts. Surprise, surprise.
But wait, there’s more. When Chief Justice William Rehnquist happened to die during Roberts’ SCOTUS confirmation hearings, Bush gave Roberts the Chief Justice position.
In other words, in just four short years after Bush v. Gore, John Roberts rocketed from being nothing but a very well-connected lawyer straight up to Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court – with nothing more than a brief stint as an appellate court judge in between on his resume, and he even got that with zero prior experience on the bench.
This is worse. Bush v Gore was about an election that just happened. It was about an actual case.
Here, the supreme Court took a very narrowly decided case, ignored the decision, and then changed the question being asked to one they want to answer.
Further, the special prosecutor asked them months ago “hey, can you take up this case now rather than delaying everything” which is something previous courts have done (for example, Bush v Gore).
But instead, they delayed, pushed to the lower court, delayed since more,.
It’s rat fucking to the extreme. The Supreme Court has no legitimacy.
