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Silent3

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20. There was no good reason for the Supreme Court to take this case in the first place
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 07:07 PM
Apr 27

(Replying to myself now because a message I was replying to was deleted, a message that tried to characterize the SCOTUS's handling of Trump's immunity claims as "normal".)

And they sure moved damned fast when it was about keep Trump on the ballot. Apparently keeping Trump on the ballot is an emergency. A speedy trial for Trump (which is normally considered a benefit, not a bane, for a defendant), and for the American people to have a decision before voting, is apparently not an emergency. Gosh, I wonder why?

Even if the SCOTUS, instead of properly dealing quickly with only the particular case issues before them, wants to go the extra mile and create elaborate tests for private conduct versus official duties of the President, it could still quickly rules on the particulars before them and let Trump's various federal trials continue.

Are you honestly so willing to grant a generous unearned benefit of the doubt to the clearly politically-motivated conservative majority? This is open, naked power politics, not some intellectual stratosphere of lofty, objective judicial decision making.

They haven't even ruled yet and probably won't until June. jimfields33 Apr 27 #1
Not ruling right away is the crime that's being committed Silent3 Apr 27 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author jimfields33 Apr 27 #19
There was no good reason for the Supreme Court to take this case in the first place Silent3 Apr 27 #20
Absent an expansion of the court, cloudbase Apr 27 #2
You do what we are doing, both sides are doing bucolic_frolic Apr 27 #3
You can't. They have no oversight. Autumn Apr 27 #4
With lifetime appointments, no ethics rules, and no accountability from Congress, the SC can do anything it wants. Lonestarblue Apr 27 #5
No power at all. No one is going to change that. Autumn Apr 27 #6
They are zealots that believe God sent them to "save the babies" now & in perpetuity - sooo Democrats gotta go......nt AnotherMother4Peace Apr 27 #7
How? You vote for Democrats. Simple. MineralMan Apr 27 #8
Voting wasn't enough in 2000 thanks to the anti-democracy Bush crime family GoreWon2000 Apr 27 #14
Not exactly. There was another factor in Florida. MineralMan Apr 27 #17
Yup, it's the only way. Elessar Zappa Apr 27 #16
Augiedog, I wish I could rec your post 100x's & I hope/pray "The right wing understands the danger" AnotherMother4Peace Apr 27 #9
unite and vote et tu Apr 27 #10
Individual Justices can be impeached... GiqueCee Apr 27 #11
Right wing think tanks orangecrush Apr 27 #12
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: ananda Apr 27 #13
Nothing was done by Congressional dems in 2000 to stop this so here we now are! GoreWon2000 Apr 27 #15
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