“There comes a point,” Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote in 1949, “where this court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.”
The #SupremeCourt’s decision on Wed to schedule arguments in April to consider #Trump’s argument that he is #immune from prosecution seemed colored by the lack of that #perspective.
People who had been rooting for #SCOTUS to reject Trump’s appeal entirely, whether by denying review of or summarily affirming an appeals court ruling against #Trump, misunderstand the [this] court’s conception of its own #power & #importance. The justices seem to think that decisions of such #constitutional significance, as in broadly similar cases concerning claims of #immunity from Presidents #Nixon & #Clinton, ought to be settled by the nation’s highest court.