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I think this is probably not true because:
they agreed to expedite this process/decision.
This appears to be unanimous. The liberal justices have no interest in helping Trump.
Jack Smith was trying to skip a step (the appeals court), and they were basically like 'no, do this the usual way.'
the appeals court already agreed to expedite the appeal if their decision went this way.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has already shown that it is going to move very quickly on this issue. If that had not been the case, SCOTUS may have decided to take it up. As it stands, SCOTUS wants to stay out of all this as much as possible; there is no ruling they can make on anything Trump that won't result in a huge public uproar, possibly leading to violence, possibly leading to violence against the justices themselves.
SCOTUS can't rule that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for any actions they take while holding office. Not for love of democracy, not for self-preservation, not to protect any corruption status quo. They would need to rule against Trump, and that means violence.
Toddlers and monkeys don't own firearms.
Toddlers routinely shoot people.
With stolen guns.
The only thing we can do is arm the good toddlers.
I hope you're correct.
Problem is if it's left up to the voters then Trump will likely win. I've been following the polls on fivethirtyeight and it doesn't look good for Biden at least for the popular vote. Not sure how it will play out with the electoral colleges and how state votes are counted.
This is an overreaction.
No lie it is.
They already declined to intervene in Trump's stolen documents case. No comments, no dissent, the judicial version of, "LOL no." I believe there was an election related case against Trump they declined to hear. Can't find it for all the noise about this case.
Oh, and they refused to hear Alabama's voting district case. So for all 3, they said let the lower court's ruling stand.
Smith asked for this case to skip the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and go straight to the Supreme Court. Not granting that request isn't the same as denying an appeal.