Jack Smith clearly has more faith in the Supreme Court doing the right thing than I do.
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the question of whether former president Donald Trump has absolute presidential immunity for crimes he’s accused of carrying out while in the White House.
The constitution let's us know:
Article II of the Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government and vests executive power in the president. The power includes the execution and enforcement of federal law
He should enforce the law that he is meant to execute.
Zero immunity.
Not only that but if the SCOTUS rules that presidents are immune to prosecution for anything they do while in office Biden should just straight up murder all the justices that voted in favor of the opinion. There would be no (legal) consequences!
I'd add the names of several lobbyists to that list
The republicans who own the supreme court, chosen by the Federalist Society, are not maga republicans. They might just throw trump under a bus if they thought there was still a way for Republicans to hold onto power without him
It's a risk, but the Supreme Court might also realize that Trump's recent "dictator" rhetoric is a direct challenge to their power also if he gets elected.
Dictators don't allow others to wield any real power.
No they fucking wont.
These same assholes overturned Roe v Wade and did a lot of other questionable things. There is zero evidence they'll suddenly grow a conscience.
That's not what OP said.
They will never grow a conscience, but they will happily throw Trump under the bus if it serves them.
He is not one of them so he can easily be made part of the out group.
The very second dumping Trump is better for their aspirations of power than holding on to him they will do just that.
Not for moral reasons though, those don't even fall into consideration.
However, this was also the SCOTUS that refused to indulge Trump on his election fraud bullshit.
Just yesterday, they allowed Washington to ban gay conversion therapy under the basis that regulating medical therapy is reserved to the states. A few years back, Gorsuch supported a ruling banning workplace discrimination of LGBT people under the logic that it's sex-based discrimination.
To be clear, Alito and Thomas are straight-up partisan hacks, but the others have some manner of legal ideology, even if it leads to terrible results sometimes. Beyond that, they have lifetime appointments. They don't need Trump anymore and owe him nothing.
Does sound like a best case scenario. Not good, but still best.
In fact, I believe most of these billionaires that hand pick the Supreme Court justices would love to get rid of trump. He is diverging much of their power.
It seems to me that he has handed the supreme court a gun with one bullet. The best outcome for the court would be to turn the gun on themselves.