Former President Donald Trump has tried every legal trick in the book to postpone his four upcoming criminal trials past election day.
But his master plan just ran into a big problem.
That’s because the Supreme Court showed it’s willing to move at lightning speed this week, when it agreed to fast-track an urgent request from Special Counsel Jack Smith about an issue that risks jamming up the legal works. In a system that can sometimes take years to reach resolution, the high court just got back to Smith in less than one day.
In other words, the Supreme Court just showed it understands the urgency of the situation. While this week’s action was only an early indicator and hardly a final decision on the merits of the pending appeal related to Trump’s Jan. 6 case, the court reacted with the kind of warp speed that suggests Trump’s attempt to bog things down could be doomed.
First of all, according to the lawyer on the Rachel Maddow show it only takes 4 justices to bring it to a vote. It doesn't mean they don't have his back, we just don't know.
Second, they are very unpredictable and will vote for/against randomly, we just don't know. This is another wait and see, they could stall everything until after the election.
We need to talk about the corruption in the SCOTUS.
How to decide who is just?
Edit: ehm...I really was thinking about how this could be made fair without just punishing wrong doing.
As a fan of 'no power for noone' I'm very sceptical of anyone choosing someone who is just. So I'm not sure if this system can ever live up to its name, because it's always lacking behind thanks to the speed of social system and law change
This is your reminder that Marbury v Madison was an unprecedented usurpation of power by SCOTUS, to assign themselves the incredible role of final arbiter on all things dealing with all three branches of government, judicial, legislative, and executive. Nobody else comes CLOSE to that level of oversight.
We’ve gone along with it all, but it’s a constitutional question/crisis that’s been brewing for over 200 years. Almost came to the surface during reconstruction and FDR, but the Robert’s court has a growing judicial credibility gap along with far too much corruption.
A typical limit in the corporate world for gifts sits around $250. Ethical codes of conduct compel workers to flatly refuse gifts or favors, or risk their jobs. The Supremes have a demonstrated track record of accepting hugely generous gifts and services, and actively rebuff investigation or rebuke.
I heard Woodward and/or Bernstein saying that because it's on an expedited track, it actually takes five votes to bring the case before SCOTUS, not four.
Trump recently argued that the Appellate Court should deny Smith’s request to expedite its review—and even compared Smith to the Grinch who stole Christmas, for allegedly attempting to make attorneys and support staff work through the holidays.
Trump’s team wrote: “It is as if the Special Counsel “growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, ‘I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming. … But how?’”
LOL
Coming from the douche who consistently issues the worst holiday statements ever, that shit is hilarious!
Notably this is just them agreeing to take the case, not ruling on it, so it's still theoretically possible that they could rule in Trump's favor, but it's a good omen (as the article notes).
If they wanted to support Trump, their smartest move would've been to delay it. Taking the case and then ruling for Trump is just going to make them look even worse, and they seem to actually care about that.
I'm guessing Scalia and Thomas, who should recuse because of his wife, will support Trump here and hem and haw; the liberal justices will go against Trump; Roberts will go against Trump because legacy; and at least one of the Trump Three -- Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett -- will also go against Trump. Gorsuch seems like someone who actually sticks to his principles when they go against what a conservative is "supposed" to do, so my money's on him.
Trump’s team wrote: “It is as if the Special Counsel “growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, ‘I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming. … But how?’”
This is like when you know you're gonna bomb an assignment in college so you just get drunk and have fun with it
This is not impossible, but I believe gorsuch will be an odd one out siding with the sane half. The "plain text" doesn't give him a free pass. Roberts I think will also fall on the sane side.
Doubtful they would do that, because it would automatically mean Joe Biden or other Dems cannot be held accountable for anything while President either, real or imagined.