#SCOTUS is supposed to render a decision on the question of #immunity, & the ruling will go towards determining when the case will go to trial.
There’s a narrow path for a trial to be held before Nov. But it’s more likely that it will be sent back to district court Judge #Chutkan, to determine which of the charges stemmed from ofcl acts & which should be thought of as strictly private ones. That process, which could affect the scope of the charges the #jury hears, could take wks or even months.
Trump calls on the Supreme Court to annul his guilty verdict in election interference hush-money case
In a worrying sign for Trump,
a new ABC/IPSOS poll showed ⭐️50% of voters thought the verdict was correct,
nearly double the 27% proportion who believed it was wrong.
⭐️Nearly half of those polled, 49%, thought he should end his campaign – a step he is highly unlikely to take.
The figures were even starker among “double haters”
– voters who equally dislike Trump and president Joe Biden
– 🌟65% of whom supported the verdict, with two-thirds saying the former president should end his campaign.
Pollsters predict the cohort could be a critical component of the swing voter constituency they believe will determine the outcome in November.
By appealing to the supreme court to intervene in a case he insists is nakedly political,
Trump is reprising the legal strategy deployed in his defense against special counsel Jack Smith’s charges
relating to the 6 January 2021 mob attack on the US Capitol
in a bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election result in his favor.
The #Jan6 case is currently on hold while the nine justices consider claims by Trump’s lawyers that he had complete #immunity from prosecution for decisions taken while he was president.
But Trump's invocation of the court
– which has a six-to-three conservative majority after Trump’s judicial appointments while he was in the White House
– also comes as 💥 questions over the court's political #impartiality are at a peak💥... following revelations that a US flag was flown upside down at the home of Justice Samuel #Alito at the time of the January 6 riot.
The gesture is identical to that used by many participants in the attack as a symbol of protest against Biden’s victory.
Jesse #Barrett is a trial lawyer & managing partner at SouthBank Legal. He heads the firm’s Washington, DC, office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court.
“I do believe the Supreme Court should step in,” Johnson told #FauxNews. “Obviously, this is totally unprecedented.” neither the [#law or not the #crime are unprecedented, plenty of #precedent, it’s just the #criminal committing the crime that’s new].
People should start preparing themselves for #SCOTUS granting #Trump#immunity and thinking about what they are willing to do to protect their families.
While the flag was up, the court was still contending w/whether to hear a #2020election case, w/Justice #Alito on the losing end of that decision. In coming wks, the justices will rule on 2 climactic cases involving the storming of the Capitol on #Jan6, incl’g whether #Trump has #immunity for his actions. Their decisions will shape how accountable he can be held for trying to overturn the last presidential election & his chances for re-election in the upcoming one.
They’ve yet to rule on either Trump’s #immunity claim or the #Jan6 case disputing the use of the #obstruction of an official proceeding by defendant Fischer that could impact #Trump as well as other #J6 defendants.
#Trump warned that Biden & family could face criminal prosecutions unless the US supreme court awards Trump #immunity in his own criminal trials
Interview with Time magazine, Trump painted a startling picture of his 2nd term including he may let states monitor #pregnant women to enforce #abortion laws.
Eric Cortellessa of Time says Trumps plans are “an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world”
After Bush 43 and his executive power grabs, a fed up Republican judge said that the Right just takes positions, then tries to shoehorn them into some “originalism” that never really existed. #scotus#meme#immunity#constitution#history#politics
One thing the members of the US Supreme Court should bear in mind, in their senseless considerstions: if the President of the USA has immunity, there is nothing to stop this President from "replacing" them. With their own blessings.
If you were listening yesterday, you heard an unbelievably calm discussion by the Supreme Court about whether it might be acceptable or a President to assassinate their opponent and have "immunity" to break any law they please without prosecution.
Judge Wendell Griffen on the day fascism appeared in the Supreme Court:
"Yesterday a lawyer stood in the well of the Supreme Court of the United States and boldly declared that a President is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution if he/she commits murder, bribery, sedition, conspiracy to overthrow the government, or any other crimes as an 'official act.'”
“'I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act,' lawyer Marc Elias, whose firm defends democratic election laws, wrote today on social media. He added: 'I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.'”
As Jonathan V. Last says, Trump is the great revealer. For years, conservatives claimed they were all about the Constitution as written, the rule of law, the judiciary not legislating.
Turns out – with the Supreme Court leading the way – that this was all a big lie. The Supremes are a charade, and corrupt to the hilt, the right-wing bloc controlling the court. (Those are my words, not Last's.)
"The Roberts Court is a corrupt institution which operates in concert with and on behalf of the Republican Party and to an ambiguous degree right-wing anti-regulatory ideology. If we believe in a different set of policies or even democratic self-governance we will have to succeed at that with the Supreme Court acting as a consistent adversary."