In a sign that could spell more trouble for presidential oversight efforts, the Supreme Court on Monday signaled that it was not even sure whether the judicial branch had the authority to settle disputes over congressional subpoenas issued for President Trump’s financial documents.
The SCOTUS has become little more than a Cockholster protection racket. Indeed, it has become Cockholster’s cock-holster.
Oh for shits sake.
Kangaroo Kourt via Accused Rapist-In-Robes et al wants Ig-Noble Covidiot Trump to be unchecked
= Ig-Noble King Trump
If the courts cannot block third party subpoenas, then they are effectively letting the Congress get what it wants as long as there is a non-governmental party they can subpoena.
So, first, this request could have come from one justice or all nine or anything in between.
But, second, if “do private parties have to obey subpoenas?” is a Political Question then fuck everything.
Law: the President “shall provide” his tax returns to Congress upon request.
SCOTUS: “Wow that just looks way too tricky for us to say anything about. Pass.”
So no checks and balances between the branches?
That is the most full throttled support for dictatorship that I ever witnessed.
And just watch for this attitude from SCOTUS to do a total 180 once President Biden is sworn into office.
Aha, the fix is in…
You see, when it comes to Donald Trump, suddenly the Supreme Court, the final arbiter of the law decides that it isn’t really supreme after all, and is forced to shrug its judicial shoulders at Congress and plead they actually have no standing to force their lord and master Trump, to do anything he isn’t inclined to do anyway!
Sorry, Charlie!
There will literally be one law for Republican presidents and another law for Democratic presidents.
Just remember, it takes a village to make a despot!
Don’t tell me, the full review by the DC Court will take place after Moscow Mitch can appoint a few more of his filibuster-proof certified Trump © judicial candidates.
" SCOTUS Questions Its Own Authority To Decide Trump Financial Doc Cases"
It would be funny if it weren’t so serious.
Precisely. By Feb 1 SCOTUS will vote 5-4 to interpret this law as meaning that Joe Biden “shall submit” to a rectal exam by the ranking Senate Republican.
I’m unclear why Congress and New York state aren’t just making the argument that the Executive Branch has no standing in this case, so it’s not an inter-branch dispute at all. It’s a dispute between certain businesses and Congress and Congress has a right to enforce its subpoenas.
In how many cases have the courts decided disputes between two branches? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?
Yep.
I guess Roberts and Kavanaugh have not been watching the Trump meltdowns on national TV. They ought to be preparing for the possibility of a democratic president next year. Of course Roberts can always say that certain decision is only in the narrow sense and applies only to this president.
The courts are completely corrupted by the Republican Party.
If the Democrats get the Senate back and hold the House, Biden must push an expansion of the Court from 9 to 13 at the very least.