Former President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that allowed the DOJ to continue accessing classified records it seized from Mar-a-Lago.
I’m totally shocked Trump it trying to get the SCOTUS to intervene.
/s
Let’s see if the SCOTUS sets it entire legitimacy on fire by taking this up.
Here is a chance for SCOTUS to shred what tiny bit of legitimacy it has left.
Hm
SCOTUS won’t touch this.
A Slow. Moving. Coup.
Others here have said that here as well.
We shall see.
The Justice could change a lot of of opinions about him with four simple words:
“I’m not your boy.”
Begging pardon, but has anyone, since Bush v. Gore, established that there’s been any shred of legitimacy left in the Court?
Arizona GOP chair repeatedly invoked Estee Lauder to upgrade her face…
I guess nobody told Trump he wouldn’t have much leverage over people with lifetime appointments.
Let’s hope a call list, if there is one, doesn’t reflect calls between Trump and Justice Thomas…
That might …uh…complicate matters.
But as you noted earlier, they still like to pretend. Otherwise why bother with lengthy opinions justifying terrible decisions?
But they have things they want to do and helping Trump might not be high on that list.
I’ll defer until the legal beagles weigh in, but on a once-over read there’s really not much there there to rule on. Whatever damage was done by letting the government have the stuff is already done, Supreme Court loves a moot case that they can just ignore. Sending the classified documents back to the Special Master in the request doesn’t seem to actually accomplish anything.
It’s like, what, your spouse finds a whole sexting thing with chats and pics with another person, reads through everything, then you go to the Supremes to take your phone back and what, your spouse has to unsee everything and just go back to the way it was?
I fully expect them to bail him out at some point in all of this. But it’ll be something like when he’s facing charges or actually convicted. This filing just seems like too much of a nothingberder to get their hands dirty for.
How might Justice Ginni rule?
Trump doesn’t, but Leonard Leo is still in the game. That’s worse.
I just read the first part of the filing, and of course he insists on being called “President Trump” throughout, with language like the following bit. Someone really needs to tell him he’s no longer the President:
Moreover, any limit on the comprehensive and transparent review of materials seized in the extraordinary raid of a President’s home erodes public confidence in our system of justice.
Agreed 100% but I’ll take whatever joy I can these days. At least when I am breathing coal dust, I’ll know that Trump is also miserable because “his” court didn’t deliver for him.
I wonder what Leo whispered in his ear about this when it came time to nominate those justices. We all know Trump doesn’t know a potential Supreme Court nominee from a hole in the ground. I wish the media would stop calling them Trump judges.
“a dead former President’s home” sounds much better
Just die MFer
I though this was moot because Cannon reversed her order to block DOJ from using the classified materials in their investigation?