Posted on 07/01/2024 8:19:58 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The massive organized crime indictment of Donald Trump and 13 other GOP co-defendants in Georgia will be impacted by Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether the former president is immune from prosecution for his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
The decision, according to CBS News, will impact special counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump in Washington, D.C., where the former president has pleaded not guilty to the four charges he is facing.
But a ruling could also have consequences for two other cases involving Trump. One, also brought by Smith, in South Florida involving Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and a second brought by prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, related to Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.
The immunity case, according to the Associated Press, was the last case argued before the nation’s high court, on April 25, but the timing of the court’s resolution of Trump’s immunity may be as important as the eventual ruling.
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This case does not impact the NY case at all. Only cases implicating official acts as president are affected.
Congress has the power to bring charges for impeachment.
This SC decision does NOT take that power away from Congress.
It just keeps the power of removing a President or candidate for that office office away from rogue prosecutors, like Jack Smith.
Also questioned the appointment of Smith
Yes!
btt
“...the justices ordered lower courts to figure out precisely how to apply the decision to Trump’s case.”
This is where it was heading from the start. And what the SCOTUS is doing is forcing the lower courts to determine what is and is not official. Can a president be considered doing his job if the act can be construed as official or not. And proving intent is at the heart of the decision. Did Trump encourage the rioters on Jan 6 to get violent? Did he on purpose leave sensitive documents inside his home that would be observed? Did he direct his businesses purposely to over inflate worth of his businesses for tax or loan purposes? Prosecuters are going to have a real time proving this and when it comes to immunity, it is going to effect every one of the cases he has been tried under because they lack the burden of proof and/or he cannot be prosecuted for them. So just like the impeachments, they hold no water and the effort to determine if they do will have to now be determined with set rules so hey can’t be that grandstand play to shift only opinion and not solidify the law.
But I think one of the real interesting parts of this is that giving Biden a relief from prosecution for allowing sensitive documents to be seen in his garage because of a mental lack of capcity determined without proof and accomplishing prosecution on Trump for doing the exact same thing is going to be under scrutiny...or should.
But by this act, saying a president has immunity that levels his playing field above the law is a broad attempt at a hail Mary to try to hide the lack of jurisprudence they have been using to accomplish politicial goals. And it implies that the use of media to accomplish unproven rumors to have second thoughts by the voters borders on the edge of treason to overthrow the citizens rights to a democratic or republic government by creating opinion and not fostering the truth. Especially using the first amendment as a crutch to misuse the existing laws. In other countries, they might call this a coup. And I’m hoping it will help bring politics back into issues and not charactor. We aren’t hiring a saint to be president. We’re hiring a manager. Results should be considered above appearance. Only one walks the walk.
wy69
Neither is the fake half-billion dollar fine for a loan application. All that insanity remains.
And Fox’s Mark Levin is hammering Jack Smith and the Dems for going after Trump.Fox/Murdoch/Dominion News was instrumental in getting Biden elected(?).
Mark Levine was a vile vicious never Trumper until Trump won. Then he jumped on the Trump money train. All the while still carrying Fox/Murdoch/Dominion never-Trump water. He, along with everyone else at Fox, including Dan Bongino, never came to Trumps defense on J6 or the 2020 election.
Fox, Murdoch, Dominion, Levine, Bongino can never be trusted.
The Florida case...And I have been saying right along...He was still President when those boxes were moved to Mar A Lago. Trump and Trump alone had total control of everything in those boxes...and the status of any classified documents were in the hands of the President of the United States. Where’s the crime?
I don't think the NY case is that clear.
It was predicated on "furthering another crime" and Bragg was never clear on what that other crime was. Merchan told the jury they didn't have to agree on what that other crime was, nor did they have to conclude that President Trump was guilty of that other crime or actually carried out that other crime.
Bragg created a circular indictment that basically said that the records were falsified to cover up a crime, and that the crime must be true because he falsified the records. The SCOTUS immunity ruling appears to have excluded running for office as an incumbent is not an official act.
-PJ
Impeachment is a political process? Not affected by the court, right?
Now that Biden skated for violating Section 3, subsection e) of the Espionage Act, the Florida case appears to be selective prosecution.
Where has my favorite Colonel been ? Missed your posts.
Hey, do you think that Bannopn and NAvarro might walk now? They c;laimed the status of immunity before the bogus J6 committee. It looks like TRump has that immunity for the official act of speaking as a president on J6.
Bannon and Navarro need to be released from their sentences pending review by the courts on that defence of presidential immunity they had claimed to the charge of Contempt of Congress.
All the best Mam, and make sure you announce any hiatus you have...we worry when we do not hear from you much here at FR.
>I believe that SCOTUS held out this long for a reason.<
I believe Smith and Fani held out this long for a trial for a reason.
Imagine the leftist rioting if SCOTUS released this right before the debate. SCOTUS has an eye to politics as much as any other organization. It’s a shame because these opinions should have been quick and easy to reach.
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heads up
AOC wants to impeach the court, hilarious.
It really ticks off leftists in forums when I say it is Trump’s MO to lose in lower courts but win in higher courts. And here we are. Again.
I’m getting so tired of being right - at least compared to them. And the reason is simple: I have much more reliable news sources. It’s why I called what happened in the debate, Juicy Smallyay, Rittenhouse and Zimmerman. I stayed out of the “hush money” case because I didn’t trust the jury and judge. But I trust the higher courts. That one is also going nowhere.
Not that trump has not lost here and there. Nobody bats 1000.
“I believe that SCOTUS held out this long for a reason.”
Please elaborate.
Good point.
See post #7.
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