TRUMP GETS LET OFF THE HOOK BY SLOW MOVING GOP COU
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Posted On: 03/02/2024 6:25:04 AM
TRUMP GETS LET OFF THE HOOK BY SLOW MOVING GOP COURT!
The Supreme Court: In the court’s 2022-23 term, the court issued just 58 decisions. Given that this scarce commodity is so infrequently used to prevent the miscarriage of criminal justice, the question must be asked: Why now? And why for this defendant?
There is no good answer. It is hard to see any legally sound reason why the Supreme Court should have decided to step in to hear Trump’s implausible and constitutionally destructive claim for absolute criminal immunity — especially when it has refused to hear so many other criminal defendants’ far more meritorious claims.
There are, no doubt, some who will seek to make excuses for the court. They will say the court is worried about an election year prosecution. Or they will say that the issue here is plainly a significant one deserving of full arguments. But the fact of the matter is that Trump is getting the kind of treatment that other criminal defendants do not get. His delaying tactics are being embraced, rather than swatted away.
If the Supreme Court’s reputation takes a further hit from this move, it will not be simply because there is an air of impropriety about the decision. Rather, it is because the court is treating the presidential candidate of the party that appointed six of the nine justices with special favor so as to materially aid his presidential campaign. The problem here is not a matter of appearances. It suggests an improper and partisan act in its bones and marrow.
DEMOCRACY DIES WITH TRUMP!
The Supreme Court: In the court’s 2022-23 term, the court issued just 58 decisions. Given that this scarce commodity is so infrequently used to prevent the miscarriage of criminal justice, the question must be asked: Why now? And why for this defendant?
There is no good answer. It is hard to see any legally sound reason why the Supreme Court should have decided to step in to hear Trump’s implausible and constitutionally destructive claim for absolute criminal immunity — especially when it has refused to hear so many other criminal defendants’ far more meritorious claims.
There are, no doubt, some who will seek to make excuses for the court. They will say the court is worried about an election year prosecution. Or they will say that the issue here is plainly a significant one deserving of full arguments. But the fact of the matter is that Trump is getting the kind of treatment that other criminal defendants do not get. His delaying tactics are being embraced, rather than swatted away.
If the Supreme Court’s reputation takes a further hit from this move, it will not be simply because there is an air of impropriety about the decision. Rather, it is because the court is treating the presidential candidate of the party that appointed six of the nine justices with special favor so as to materially aid his presidential campaign. The problem here is not a matter of appearances. It suggests an improper and partisan act in its bones and marrow.
DEMOCRACY DIES WITH TRUMP!
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