How Chief Justice Roberts’ Supreme Court manufactured a Jan. 6 trial crisis

MSNBC ^ | June 17, 2024 | Dennis Aftergut

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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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 2baddemocrats; corruptjudges; dems4lawfare; immunity; jan6; judicialbias; lawfare; politicaljudges; scotus; trump; trumppersecution; trumpwasright

[Theophilus]

“What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”

deceit & conceit both.

[EastTexasTraveler]

The only radicals on the supreme court are the 3 communists.

[lurk]

MSNBC, the voice of temperate legal foundations.

[Ex-Con777]

It’s always caged in reference to “before the election”. They don’t even hide behind the justice facade anymore.

EC

[Freee-dame]

If the rumor of the illegal adoptions was even true, those children are fully adults now