The Supreme Court’s decision to hear Donald Trump’s claim that he should be shielded from criminal prosecution keeps the justices at the center of election-year controversy for several more months and means any verdict on Trump’s alleged subversion of the 2020 vote will not come before summer.
The country’s highest court wants the final word on the former president’s assertion of immunity, even if it may ultimately affirm a comprehensive ruling of the lower federal court that rejected Trump’s sweeping claim.
For Trump, Wednesday’s order amounts to another win from the justice system he routinely attacks. The justices’ intervention in the case, Trump v. United States, also marks another milestone in the fraught relationship between the court and the former president.
Cases related to his policies and his personal dealings consistently roiled the justices behind the scenes. At the same time, Trump, who appointed three of the nine justices, significantly influenced the court’s lurch to the right, most notably its 2022 reversal of nearly a half century of abortion rights and reproductive freedom.
If the question was so novel then why did the supreme Court punt it to the lower court and then ignore the lower courts narrowing? What purpose did that serve?
This is rat fucking.
And it’s a dumb question “is the president a dictator”? Are you serious? How can the correct answer be anything besides “no”? This is the easiest question to answer that’s ever been asked.
The consequence of “yes” is that Biden gets to order the assassination of some senators and justices and can call off the upcoming election. That’s how ridiculous this is.
The lower court wrote 57 pages of heavily cited legal theory and history proving “no”. There’s no reason for the Supreme Court to ignore all that.