Posted on 12/23/2023 3:27:01 PM PST by PJ-Comix
The amazing thing about Politico's story on Thursday by global editor-in-chief John F. Harris and senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein about a couple of Trump cases heading to the Supreme court is the lack of detailed discussions of the legal aspects involved in "John Roberts, Donald Trump and the ghosts of Bush v. Gore."
Why? Because Harris and Gerstein are promoting the highly disingenuous idea that Chief Justice John Roberts, who they claim has a court credibility problem, should steer his fellow justices to deliver a split decision because of PR optics. I kid you not.
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Roberts is his own man. He will make the right decision.
“OR ELSE” is the silent part.
Sounds like RATS are getting nervous.
They are dog whistling to the deep state operatives that they sudpect/are sure are blackmailing Robert’s to tell them how they should command him.
Roberts has already shown that he can be bullied. Obama blackmailed him into rewriting Obamacare. I bet Roberts has Lolita Island skeletons.
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Roberts dines with “friends” from the Senate, and he’s in the middle of a lot. The Media myth they sell is these guys are in Vermont Cabins, when they’re in the middle of the Deep State and have lots of DS Contacts.
Yeah, and Robert’s certainly appears to hate Trump.
It’s Obama giving Roberts his marching orders through Politico. Kind of like how the CIA/FBI does with WaPo.
Does not take much at all to steer Roberts. “We have pictures.” are the magic three words.
Three justices, including Colorado s chief justice, dissented. The SCOTUS should use Justice Samor decision to counter the majority.
Roberts is a harvard guy. he wants to stay in the harvard club. back then the harvard club was united. down its divided.
back then it was then harvard/obama. Now is harvard gay/biden
very different.
You were being sarcastic, right?
That guy changed his “apparent” judicial philosophy on a dime.
He has been nothing but a HUGE unmitigated disaster of a pick to conservatives, as best I can tell.
Can’t prove it but I’d almost guarantee that sh!stack has some serious skeletons in his closet.
And the Shrub makes him Chief Justice. A newly appointed jurist becomes Chief justice outta the gate. Almost like the Clinton/Odumbo loving Bush knew Roberts was gonna do a left turn.
Wow how soon we forget, Roberts twisted himself into pretzels to make Obamacare into a tax to save it and blocked AZ from being allowed to arrest illegals in their state. Roberts is a deep state tool, you can the bet the he knows the wise Latina leaked Dodd and is protecting her. Politico Is nudging him because it will work.
They’re more desperate than anything we’ve witnessed in this nation in quite awhile.
Presidential immunity is a good idea for all democracies. No one should be jailing former presidents.
What you could see is a decision which focuses on the lack of jurisdiction by the Colorado court system to adjudicate matters of federal law, without getting into the specifics of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. There is a federal insurrection statute, 18 USC 2383, and the trial court in Colorado had no jurisdiction to make a determination as to whether PDJT violated it, and the Colorado Supreme Court had no jurisdiction to throw PDJT off the ballot, regardless of the state election code in Colorado. Colorado is certainly not the forum for such matters, as none of the events which arguably triggered Section 3 of the 14th Amendment occurred in Colorado, no plaintiffs with Article III judicial standing reside there, and Trump does not reside there.
The doctrine of judicial restraint calls upon a court to decide matters on the narrowest possible grounds. That means that if a court can resolve a case on jurisdictional matters without getting into substantive statutory or constitutional issues, that is how the case is decided.
Therefore, it is quite possible that Roberts can get his 9-0 decision by limiting the majority opinion to jurisdictional matters (state courts are barred from making determinations as to the federal insurrection statute and the 14th Amendment, which are the province of the federal courts). Thomas, Alito and/or Gorsuch can write separately on their views on the 14th Amendment, but without 5 votes they would not become precedent.
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