Former President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to consider hearing his bid to stop a key part of the Jan. 6 Committee’s investigation.
subtext from tfg - ‘you bastards owe me!’
Breaking… traitor continues to traitorize
The decision of the court below substantially expands congressional power
And what he’s asking for doesn’t substantially expand executive power?
Does anyone here think he has something to hide?
We always told personnel in business, any records or information generated on our systems, our devices was the company’s. I don’t see much difference here. Our government, our Capitol, our White House and he was our employee.
Can’t wait to see which justices go along with this bullshit.
Biden should have, as sitting President, ordered the release of the materials immediately when subpoenaed, saying the lawsuit from Trump, a private citizen, is unconstitutional, and cannot be cynically used to protect his interests, overrule and limit the powers and obligations of a sitting President and Congress to the American people. Neither can the courts. Letting this novel, never before litigated blatant partisan farce continue ad infinitum, is a lawless charade.
Somebody is filling their Depends. I hope the the TPM lawyers chime in. @occamscoin @txlawyer. Will the SCOTUS heed Rump?
Perhaps SCOTUS will approve The Lie Guy’s lying and insurrection. Either deny or fast track the case. I pity the SCOTUS and nation that gives life to TLG’s lies. Time to wage lawfare on this court if they don’t do what they can to quash this, and fast!
It was always going to end here–or, at least, he was counting on this scenario. It’s the only reason Mitch could get TFG’s attention about packing SCOTUS for Mitch’s own purposes: because he could persuade TFG that SCOTUS would bail him out, no matter how grotesque his crimes.
I hope Mitch was wrong. I don’t believe much of anything anymore.
Based on how the Supremes are handling the COVID mandate cases, and the criticism of the Shadow Docket, I expect either a summary denial or an expedited hearing in January.
I anticipate that the Don will keep his losing record going. After all, the best electoral results for the GOP is the result of Trumpism without Trump himself.
Yeah, that was the easiest sell ever.
SCOTUS will not lift one finger to bail out Trump on this. They also won’t take any time out of their holiday schedule of not doing any work to summarily deny him either. I’d guess they get around to doing that around on Jan. 10.
I remember you saying that before. You are probably right.
Really liked this Vox breakdown of Trump’s odds. Gets into the precedent and legal theories at play.
They owe the Federalist Society, will they deliver?
Kavanaugh has already shown that he can be very flexible, there is nothing preventing him saying that yes Executive Privilege applies to Ex-presidents, and then turning around and saying the opposite if it suits his tribe, it’s like having Mitch McConnell in the Supreme Court. Thomas is a moron that will side with republicans out of knee-jerk reaction. Not as stupidly, but Alito and Gorsuch are in the same boat as Thomas.
So it all comes down to the Roberts and whatever the Handmaiden’s husband opinion is in this case is.
Former guy power
I don’t think it will even get to them. Unless I’m mistaken, Roberts can simply deny it progressing to the Court.
Edit: corrected typo
“Both a district court judge and a panel of judges on the D.C. circuit upheld the subpoena…”
That appeal to SCOTUS was faster than community spread at Golden Corral.