Calls are growing for #Alito to recuse himself from all #January6th cases, and rightly so. He won't, of course, because he's arrogant and entirely unencumbered by ethics. If Democrats manage to win both houses of Congress + the White House, they MUST reform #SCOTUS.
Samuel Alito & Co. parroted Trump and Fox 'news' talking points that a rogue president isn't too worrisome because officials or the military can simply refuse to do their bidding or they will be prosecuted. In reality, except that a POTUS can simply pardon them before leaving office, and of course, those pardons could not be challenged because they are an official act. So all he needs to do is appoint people he knows will go along with the crimes the second time around.
Trump pardoned Michael Flynn & Roger Stone for their crimes just weeks before #January6th, as they organized dangerous extremists for the insurrection.
And there is this: The Trump-Hitler comparison is a stunning warning. Few Germans or Europeans expected what unfolded after Hitler amassed power. Trump is the only president in recent American history to openly despise the ideals, dignity, and equality upon which the contemporary United States is built.
Waiting for the most corrupt #scotus in history on the absurd immunity case. #law#court
We are fighting because this country deserves a leader who respects our democracy, not disloyal Republicans willing to harm our citizens, divide our country and tear it to pieces for a bit of power.
We found the nazis, they attacked the Capitol on #January6th. It will take our collective effort to save our nation from the enemy within.
On Thursday, the #scotus will be hearing arguments where lawyers for the criminal defendant are arguing that all former presidents are forever immune from criminal prosecution for any official acts done in office.
Failure to respect the election of a new President, is the ultimate crime against the people, who are the basis of government. The President, by constitutional design, should have no role- official or unofficial-in the determination of the people's
vote. Immunity for the crimes here alleged would be most abhorrent to the Framers, because immunity would upset the constitutional scheme and aid a President in overriding the people's power over him.
The Framers would also have been appalled that Trump, despite having left office, seeks permanent immunity. As a Federalist wrote for the Maryland ratifying convention:
It seems, however, that the president may possibly be continued for life. He may so, provided he deserve it.
In the crimal defendant's appeal to #scotus on his #January6th criminal fraud to block the certification of our election case, aka immunity delay case, vile fascist Samuel Alito and accused sexual abuser Brett Kavanaugh declined to acknowledge certain facts of the case during the oral arguments. Their stance has drawn attention and raised questions about the case's proceedings.
Corrupt Clarence implies presidents are always committing crimes- a blatent lie, giving cover to the biggest criminal in American history.
Their overtly unethical conduct laid bare in front of Americans, and it was disgraceful. It calls into question their certification and qualifications to work in the legal profession, in any capacity.
Republican partisans are and were during the hearing, a total disgrace to the American legal system.
The criminal defendant conspired with several private individuals
and a public official to “overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election by using knowingly
false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal govt function by which those results are collected, counted, and certified.” He sought to accomplish the conspiracy’s objectives through five means: using deceit toward state officials to subvert the legitimate election results, using deceit to organize fraudulent slates of electors in 7 targeted States and cause them to send false certificates to Congress, leveraging the Dept of Justice #DoJ to use deceit to have state officials replace the legitimate electoral slate with electors to cast their votes for petitioner, attempting to enlist the VP, to fraudulently alter the election results during the certification proceeding on January 6, and directing supporters to the Capitol to obstruct the proceeding, and exploiting the violence & chaos at the Capitol.
This specific filing was in regards to #J6#January6th attack and crimes related to the criminal defendant conspiracy to stop the certification of our election.
Wake up, people. This is an emergency. This is what authoritarian thugs and terrorists do.Trump is targeting the President of the United States.
Thank you to the more than 1.5 million people who took the time to read this message. I am not leaving this alone. I write about coups. This life-size image of President Biden imagines the sitting president of the United States as a victim of an authoritarian takeover.
President Biden delivered a ferocious condemnation of criminal defendant Donald Trump, ahead of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, warning that Trump directed an insurrection and will aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returns to power.
TODAY: Feds seek 3-years prison in Jan 6 case of Alex Harkrider
They say he "admitted to wearing body armor (w/ a plate carrier).. described the tomahawk axe he admitted to carrying as a 'tactical stick'..described walking around the evening of January 5 to 'check out the area.