The Supreme Court's Blocking Strategy
Americas top legal authority is doing all it can to prevent Donald Trump from standing trial before the election.BY MICHAEL MELTSNER JUNE 14, 2024
There seems no end to the ethical questions surrounding the behavior of several Supreme Court justices, what with the endless stories of undisclosed swanky vacations and gifts, but the most shameful lapses arent personal, theyre institutional.
Recall that Donald Trump has been charged with multiple felonies for attempting to overthrow the government. The federal court of appeals in D.C. unanimously rejected his outlandish argument for total presidential immunity on the sixth of February, setting the stage for a trial on this multi-count indictment.
But the Supreme Court weighed in three weeks later, not only to rule it wanted to review the appeals court decision, but in a lengthy process that seems designed to ensure that the voters will not know Trumps guilt or innocence after a trialif one is now ever heldbefore they cast their ballots.
Litigants are used to hearing about the slow pace of judicial decision-making; the laws delay is a cliché. But when the national interest plainly calls for speedy resolution of an essential constitutional conflict, as in a case like this one that features an attack on the Capitol and an attempt to set aside a presidential election, previous Supreme Courts have often responded immediately.
https://prospect.org/justice/2024-06-14-supreme-courts-blocking-strategy/
BComplex
(9,074 posts)"Everything trump touches dies" obviously applies to the republican party and the supreme court. I say let it die & ignore it. Judge Chutkin needs to just announce the start of the trial.
KS Toronado
(19,565 posts)Why do we have to wait on the Supremos because a toddler went whining and crying to them? They ignore us
all the time, ie: abortion/bump-stocks, turnaround should be fair play.
BComplex
(9,074 posts)They aren't listening to OUR constitution! Why in the hell should anyone listen to them?
slightlv
(4,325 posts)any and all SCOTUS rulings they don't agree with, as well as anything coming from President Biden.
Given this situation, why isn't it being called Secession by Default, or something along those lines. What else could it be?
duckworth969
(966 posts)If Chutkan gets a window to schedule the J6 trial, Cannon will decide to suddenly schedule the espionage case, thereby blocking any trial before the national election.
BComplex
(9,074 posts)and do what we damn well please, just like they're doing!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,899 posts)This isn't the first time the Court has acted in a way to affect an election.
Justice Kennedy, the Court's swing vote, was favoring Gore. That didn't serve Scalia's purposes, however, so he forced the Court to delay its vote into late in the night and browbeat Kennedy until he wore him down, and the SCOTUS awarded the presidency to Bush.*
In the current instance we can expect the Court to require an additional delaying tactic -- maybe send the case back to the trial court for additional arguments -- and that, plus Cannon's delays, will insure the MAGATs have a second shot at what they failed at before, and literally steal the election.
*I have tried to find the book where I got this information, but it's lost in the 'net.
slightlv
(4,325 posts)but you're not alone in remembering it. I have always wondered if and how they threatened Gore. It may not even have been against him personally, as we see Magats doing today to everybody they don't like. It may have been something against the country, itself. Something so horrible in Gore's mind, he couldn't bare to see it come to pass, so he gave in and gave up instead... for the "good" of the country. Of course, we see where that has led us.
ancianita
(38,514 posts)Got it.