Originally published at: Trump Tries To Thwart Last Remnants of Court Cases Against Him - TPM – Talking Points Memo
With less than two weeks until he’s inaugurated, Donald Trump is moving to block the last remnants of the various criminal cases brought against him over the past several years. Trump filed a last-ditch brief with the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to intervene and block his Friday sentencing in the New York…
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I’ll make it easy; he is not yet President. Until he is inaugurated, he is President-elect. So What? I would hope that this gets laughed out of conference. If they do take the case, you can bet your bottom dollar they will take his side. Bought and paid for.
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“It’s a Hail Mary argument that essentially asks the high court to declare that there are two presidents at once.” Oh yeah?
Tomorrow: SCOTUS rules that there will be no sentencing as Trump is covered by Presidential immunity.
The day after: Aileen Cannon issues a ruling that Biden is no longer president. Her reasoning? This town ain’t big enough for the two of 'em.
And the day after that:
(I know I posted this yesterday, but, let’s face it, this one deserves a workout.)
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Trying to shoehorn the witness testimony into an immunity argument after the trial has already been conducted is kind of clever, but kind of also like trying to stuff the water back into the balloon after it’s already burst.
SCOTUS took the immunity case because (it said) the immunity stuff had to be determined before the trial went forward. Well, trump let this trial go forward without attempting to pre-determine the admissibility of witness testimony under his malignant theory of presidential immunity. Too bad, so sad, you let it slide. Take it up on appeal after sentencing.
Prediction: SCOTUS denies relief tomorrow afternoon. They have no institutional interest in saving trump from this nothingburger proceeding.
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“It’s a Hail Mary argument that essentially asks the high court to declare that there are two presidents at once.”
Schrödinger’s POTUS™.
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Well… It seems that despite my many accusations, Joe Biden has not committed, let alone convicted of any crimes. Therefore, I, considering my recent history, am entitled to use Joe Biden’s unused immunity.
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Fingers. Frickin’. Crossed.
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New York Cardinal Dolan said that President-elect Trump “takes his Christian faith seriously,” so the good Catholics on the Court are obligated to accept his word and grant Trump’s prayer.
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FFS. If the Supremes act for Trump then the Constitution is really dead. There is no ‘rule of law’, separation of powers, etc. etc.
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As an actual person, Joe Biden has suffered great tragedies in his life that would tend to make him seriously take up religion instead of the bottle.
There are no known positive character forming events in TSF’s life. Zero. I suspect Cardinal Dolan enjoys a great many comforts a life of poverty would preclude.
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Cardinal Dolan is a prince of the Church. I guarantee you he lives in princely comfort.
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Maximum allowable fine. If he thinks he’s too busy to appeal, he should pay it. Writing a check takes 1 minute. He could sign it on the wheel of his golf cart between holes, if that’s what it takes.
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An earlier poster touched on it - he is not President; all he is, is a private citizen, which is also what he was when the crimes and the trial took place. More, paying hush money and committing tax fraud along the way are in no way Official Presidential Duties. Presidential immunity cannot be invoked for a non-President, and I would argue that based on the Constitution, the debates and discussions surrounding the writing of it, and other contemporary commentary such as The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers, there is no such thing as Presidential immunity, period. And last, of course, for SCOTUS to void a state trial verdict and sentence it would have to find that the laws under which the trial was adjudicated and/or the processes of the trial itself, violated US law.
SCOTUS will ignore all of that, of course, and Roberts will once again blow massive clouds of smoke and mirrors out of his ass while delivering his latest baseless “decree”, and then loudly rend his robes and hair, moaning that the rightfully outraged public has no respect for what he calls the rule of law.
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The fine should be structured like a student loan. As long as he chooses to go into forbearance while President, the interest accrues and is added to prinicipal on the back end.
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I hope you are right. I have zero faith in the six ReThugs on this court doing anything righteous in the remainder of my life.
I pray everyday that a meteor of just the right size screams through the atmosphere while the SCOTUS in in session and turns that white limestone edifice of shame into a 300 foot deep crater into the Earth.
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It’s not righteous, it’s just that their project (fascism and oligarchy) is quite distinct from trump’s project (trump). When those projects do not align, the Court mostly isn’t interested in lending him a hand.
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Couldn’t it just take out the male justices? I’m thinking a more selective act of God like the green fog in the “Ten Commandments.”
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What causes me to rend my robes is the time, money and resources that are diverted from actual stuff to serve the demands of this fucker. Christ I’m sick of this shit. Hopefully Roberts and his thugs are sick of it too.
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From time to time, I ponder that Barrett could undergo a gradual Blackmunesque metamorphosis, but then I wake up.
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The US should return Hawaii to Denmark.
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