That they didn't just deny this outright is concerning.
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I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell they'll rule in favor of DJ. That said, they MIGHT end up taking up the case which will delay things till June. The ONLY reason they'll take up this case is as a favor to DJT.
That said, the appeals court basically gave trump 1 day to appeal somewhere and the SC is giving smith 1 week to answer. There's still a pretty good chance that after smith's response they'll deny cert. That being said, it's beyond ridiculous that they are humoring this clown and his lawyers. The ONLY reason for that is the court is captured by rightwing extremists.
All that said, trump is basically betting everything on winning this election and pardoning himself for everything. He's uber fucked if it doesn't go that way.
Jack Smiths response should be "are you fucking kidding me???" And that's it.
That being said is that which has been said.
That said, sometimes my stream of consciousness decides to repeat phrases. Having said that, I should really reread what I'm writing. Be that as may, this is pretty fair. All things considered.
You should be well past concerned by now
Trump argues that implementing the mandate would “radically disrupt” his ability to campaign against Biden this year.
Exactly why this needs to proceed, Yesterday!
IKR.
"Prosecution for all the crimes I've committed is interfering with my ability to become potus."
Let's just reflect on that.
You know it’s bad when Nixon officials seem more opposed to presidential immunity as a concept than the Supreme Court
Later Tuesday, a group of former officials in Republican presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to Trump in a filing with the Supreme Court said Trump has failed to make “two of the mandatory showings required for a delay of” the appeals court ruling.
The former officials in that filing also said that “rejection of absolute immunity in this case is essential to protecting” the Constitution’s “design of the Presidency itself.”
“This Court should deny a stay in this case because Mr. Trump’s claim of such a boundless immunity is wrong,” the filing said.
hm... I wonder whose names are attached to that.
I'm sure we will know when article about the death threats come out.
Why wait?
Probably take Jack Smith a couple of hours...,
I was going to say, he probably already has it done, he just didn't want to look like a dick.
"You have until February..."
"Oh, our response is completed, here you go!"
"twentieth..."
This is like the 90th time trump has tried to use absolute presidential immunity... and like the 10th time it's made it's way to the SC.
You'd think the SC would also just have a "Are you fucking kidding us? this is the 10th time you've tried this and the answer is still no, you aren't a godking".
I think SCOTUS has only done anything with the immunity question once. Jack Smith asked them to take up the question directly, they said "maybe, we'll hear you out here" and after hearing them out on why they should take it directly, they decided not to take it directly without making any ruling on the actual issue.
Its* way to the SC.
And it's all starting to fall apart.
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The courts have actively allowed Trump and his team to delay the DC case time after time after time with ridiculous arguments that should have gotten lawyers sanctioned for even having the audacity to file them in the first place. Their goal seems to be to give Trump what he wants by helping him delay the trial through procedurally dragging their feet and delaying the trial until after the election without actually making rulings in his favor. In other words, they know that what Trump is doing is wrong and don't want to give any rulings that future Trump wannabes can capitalize on, but still want to let Trump himself get his way. They seem well on their way to derailing that trial.
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Judge Cannon has been in Trump's pocket from day one, and continues to go out of her way to give rulings in Trump's favor even at the risk of her professional reputation and even if it is out of the scope of her authority. Her latest is the ruling giving Trump information that compromises at least one witness.
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The GA case is at huge risk because of Fani Willis' inability to keep her personal and professional life separate. And while the issues in her personal life shouldn't affect the case, she absolutely should have known that at the very least the optics were going to be terrible and put the whole case at significant risk, which is exactly what happened.
Trump will not see the inside of a courtroom on any of these charges, mark my words. My guess is that he's going to allow the GA case to collapse in on itself due to Willis' affair. He's then going to ride the momentum from that in the court of public opinion as proof that the entire system is corrupt, and mount a pressure campaign to get the rest of the cases dismissed on shaky legal grounds while riding the surge in the polls that having the case thrown out is guaranteed to give him. Cannon will just dismiss the case for whatever reason Trump tells her to like she's done at every step of the way so far, the DC case will stall out until after the election where Trump will just have it dismissed, and the NY case will be written off as an irrelevant case that nobody cared much about in the first place, the last of a string of cases that the general public will consider a coordinated, corrupt effort to keep Trump from winning a second term.
And then the real fun begins. The four year Trump Revenge Tour.
This whole "America" thing was nice while it lasted.