Former President Donald Trump has tried every legal trick in the book to postpone his four upcoming criminal trials past election day.
But his master plan just ran into a big problem.
That’s because the Supreme Court showed it’s willing to move at lightning speed this week, when it agreed to fast-track an urgent request from Special Counsel Jack Smith about an issue that risks jamming up the legal works. In a system that can sometimes take years to reach resolution, the high court just got back to Smith in less than one day.
In other words, the Supreme Court just showed it understands the urgency of the situation. While this week’s action was only an early indicator and hardly a final decision on the merits of the pending appeal related to Trump’s Jan. 6 case, the court reacted with the kind of warp speed that suggests Trump’s attempt to bog things down could be doomed.
Trump recently argued that the Appellate Court should deny Smith’s request to expedite its review—and even compared Smith to the Grinch who stole Christmas, for allegedly attempting to make attorneys and support staff work through the holidays.
Trump’s team wrote: “It is as if the Special Counsel “growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, ‘I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming. … But how?’”
LOL
Coming from the douche who consistently issues the worst holiday statements ever, that shit is hilarious!
Aw, don’t get my hopes up like that.
“It’s the hope that kills you”
It looks like maybe Clarence Thomas and Alito want to fast track their next big round of sugar daddy amenities.
Notably this is just them agreeing to take the case, not ruling on it, so it’s still theoretically possible that they could rule in Trump’s favor, but it’s a good omen (as the article notes).
If they wanted to support Trump, their smartest move would’ve been to delay it. Taking the case and then ruling for Trump is just going to make them look even worse, and they seem to actually care about that.
I’m guessing Scalia and Thomas, who should recuse because of his wife, will support Trump here and hem and haw; the liberal justices will go against Trump; Roberts will go against Trump because legacy; and at least one of the Trump Three – Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett – will also go against Trump. Gorsuch seems like someone who actually sticks to his principles when they go against what a conservative is “supposed” to do, so my money’s on him.
Trump’s team wrote: “It is as if the Special Counsel “growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming, ‘I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming. … But how?’”
This is like when you know you’re gonna bomb an assignment in college so you just get drunk and have fun with it
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OR… the moron majority of this scotus has already decided to rule in favor of dinglebutt.
This is not impossible, but I believe gorsuch will be an odd one out siding with the sane half. The “plain text” doesn’t give him a free pass. Roberts I think will also fall on the sane side.
The rest, who fuckin knows.
Doubtful they would do that, because it would automatically mean Joe Biden or other Dems cannot be held accountable for anything while President either, real or imagined.
