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

    06/17/2024 9:28:20 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 25 replies
    MSNBC ^ | June 17, 2024 | Dennis Aftergut
    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...