Supreme Court agrees to quick review of Trump’s presidential immunity claim
Supreme Court agrees to quick review of Trump’s presidential immunity claim
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review a fast-tracked petition asking if Donald Trump can use his status as a former president to claim immunity from criminal charges related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election.
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Saw a thread yesterday where people were happy cause they think the Supreme Court is going to tell him to get fucked.
I say I wish I still had that child-like optimism.
They only fuck poor people.
I’m willing to bet that if they do cover for him, they’ll limit the scope so severely that it only applies to this specific case, and sets no precedent.
You mean like Bush v Gore which explicitly said it could never be used as a precedent, and yet commonly is?
On the flip side, Jack Smith has been incredibly thorough. He wouldn't ask if he didn't have a backup plan.
What backup plan is possible if scotus grants him blank immunity? I think his thinking was just to speed things up since it's going to end up there anyways.
I'll concede on that point. I still don't trust it though.
Why would they "cover" for Trump? Do you imagine they feel beholden to him for appointing them? They are not; Past, present or future. They've already refused to hear Trump related cases, and that hurt him.
And yes, even if it goes against him, they will keep the scope of the ruling dialed in tight. That's how law and judgments work at this highest level. And should.
Look, I'm hating the conservative bent in this Court, and they seem wildly biased, but y'all are off base in many ways.
Not all their judgements are conservative. They told Alabama to fuck themselves over voting districts. They refused to hear a "pray away the gay" case yesterday, deferring to a lower court's opinion. Been a couple more that surprised me, but the cases escape me ATM. Didn't they refuse to hear a Trump related case recently? This might be what I'm thinking of.
The other weird thing I see all over lemmy, not your post!, is the idea that because Trump appointed them, they're somehow beholden to him. Nope. That's the whole idea behind lifetime appointments. A Justice can tell anyone and everyone to fuck themselves without fear of reprisal, current or future.
tl;dr: The current Court is conservative, not partisan. For this very particular job, that's a real difference.
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Yes, but granting the president too much immunity lessens the relative power of the Supreme Court. They would not want that.