Posted on 06/17/2024 9:28:20 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The Supreme Court’s delays in deciding Donald Trump’s immunity case are creating a crisis — a collision between a Justice Department tradition and the necessity of an informed electorate. On one hand, voters deserve a verdict in the trial accusing Trump of attempting to interfere with the lawful transition of power after the 2020 election. On the other, the Justice Department customarily respects “election year sensitivities” — not initiating legal actions that could affect an election in the months immediately before it.
This looming conflict was easily avoided. Unfortunately, however, the court’s radical conservative majority rejected three sensible ways to ensure that Trump got tried to a verdict before the election. Had it taken any of these routes, the trial easily would have concluded more than three months before the election, well ahead of Election Day.
First, the court could have taken the case in December when special counsel Jack Smith petitioned for it to be heard. Second, the justices could have declined to take the case after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit comprehensively (and correctly) rejected Trump’s appeal. The case could have gone straight back to the district court for trial. Third, even when the court accepted the case in February, it could have expedited its hearing, then issued a ruling in March or April. Instead, the court set the hearing for the last possible date for oral arguments.
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What is blatant is that the Dems are practicing lawfare against Trump and for SCOTUS to say that acknowledges there is not equal justice for all.
Aaaaahhhh yes, the voice of reason and civil political discourse that is MSNBC.
Snicker... We are beset upon all sides by clowns.
Some guy on Twitter says for the only second time, Roberts is erecting fencing around the Court building. The first time was after the Roe leak occurred. Thursday morning a ruling(s) will be announced.
Trump deserves due process. These liberal a$$holes wanted an expedited trial in a kangaroo court.
So MSNBC says that if the Court had just ignored all law and legal precedent from the beginning they could now have Trump convicted on federal charges. How dare SCOTUS not get with the program!?
“...Justice Department tradition....”
Someone remind me of the Justice Department’s tradition in trying to remove immunity from a President. I know Merrick Garland has indicated he has immunity from Congressional oversight but no one has mentioned the “tradition” our nation has in a situation where a Presidential administration is charging the previous Presidential with a crime in such a manner.
How was this handled in previous instances? Or “traditionally” so to speak?
Answer: It’s never happened. And MSNBC think that SCOTUS should just wave it on through without a word under the concept of the “Trump exception” to all laws and precedent.
Dennis Aftergut? Sounds like a fictional character from Charles Dickens.
I’m sure Roberts, being the woosie he is, hates Trump’s guts and will try to throw him to the wolves if he can.
remembering Roberts, did he not bow to the imposters wishes with obamacare because the puke was holding an illegal adoption over his head, so much for integrity
ORANGE MAN BAD.........
“OH Nos, he is gaining in the polls, assassination is our sole option.” SICKOS!
THese bastids have wound themselves up so tightly, they are like head hunters beating the war drums for a volcano sacrifice.
What idiocy.
Yeah, as if depraved Jack Smith respects political or legal norms.
Hey Roberts....you have some VERY WISE Judges and some VERY STUPID, EVIL Judges!!
SCOTUS, or any courts, opinions or judgements only serve to be an optic narrative opportunity to scream their fascist, bigoted, identity politics, accusatory rhetoric.
The left will never actually enforce anything any justice ruling that doesn’t fire 30mm rounds into anyone not with them at a rabid degree.
Well, WashingtonSource, the name seems appropriate. After all, anything ‘Aftergut’ is crap, generally speaking...
“radical conservative”... no bias here
Speaking of Jack Smith, he should read Jonathan Karl’s book ‘Betrayal’. Especially the part where Mitch McConnel describes the phone he had with Pres. Trump shortly after Congress declared Biden the winner. “McConnell later told me that Trump yelled at him in an expletive-ridden rant, insisting he had not lost the election.”
“[R]adical conservative majority”? This kind of rhetoric is a threat to democracy.
The Democrats decided to call what, on Trump’s watch, was a 4 hour riot an insurrection for political purposes and to get around the Presidential immunity issue that all Presidents have in dealing with situations that arise as part of their duties when they are President. The media, of course, cooperated and only referred to it as an insurrection. The conservatives on Supreme Court do not read the newspapers and know a riot when they see one. Thus, immunity is certainly an issue
The regime/the left is trying to intimidate SCOTUS.
Their desperation has hit an all time low.
And, it’s only June.
Ah, yes! The smell of desperation is thick in the air! What will it be like in October?
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