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Anyone still clinging to the fantasy of a lawful and fair-minded 'supreme' court in this land, one guided by principles of law, precedent, and just plain ass ol' INTEGRITY, must, by now, be shaken in that belief, considering the latest stew of sh*t that been brewed up by the reich-winged conservative collaborators in the dismantling of our nation's DEMOCRACY. The latest being the actual WEIGHING of (if that can be believed) the presidential 'right' to KILL the opposition.
They do Vladimir SO proud:
Donald Trump had a fantastic day in the Supreme Court today - Vox Its unclear if the Court will explicitly hold that Trump could commit crimes with impunity, or if theyll just delay his trial so long that it doesnt matter.
Alito complains 'special' Trump shouldn't be 'subject to criminal laws like anybody else' - Rawstory
MAGA's information war just had 'big victory' in immunity hearing: authoritarianism expert - Rawstory
Taking to social media, she wrote, "Whatever the Court does, having this case heard and the idea of having immunity for a military coup taken seriously by being debated is a big victory in the information war that MAGA and allies wage alongside legal battles. Authoritarians specialize in normalizing extreme."
Experts alarmed by Thomas part in Trump immunity case despite 'insurrectionist' wife - Rawstory
Clarence Thomas' wife, GOP activist Ginni Thomas, played an ACTIVE ROLE in Trump's efforts to overturn the 2024 presidential election results
'Fundamentally evil': Sotomayor rips attorney who says Trump could assassinate rivals - Rawstory
"Trump is likely to get what he wants": Experts say Supreme Court poised to delay Jan. 6 trial - Salon
The court seems unlikely to accept Trump's "extreme" immunity claim but appears poised to drag case out longer
MEANWHILE:
Supreme Court Conservatives Weave Anti-Abortion Fantasyland To Allow Emergency Room Abortion Bans - TPM via Yahoo
A TOM IN EVERY PLOT:
Clarence Thomas Is The Black Person Clarence Thomas Warned You About - Huffpost The Supreme Court justice has been all the things he claims to hate: a welfare queen, a duplicitous double agent, a diversity hire, a beneficiary of reparations, and a minstrel show.
TexasDem69
(1,855 posts)The court hasnt ruled and nobody knows how it will rule. It may create some sort of testthe Supreme Court likes testsfor assessing the issue but it isnt going to issue a ruling that Trump has absolute immunity.
PortTack
(32,813 posts)And look the other way to support their shitty desire to have the right take us back half a century.
B.See
(1,333 posts)All I've said is that they are weighing whether a president has the right to kill his political opponents. An argument advanced by Trump's own lawyer which Sotomayor herself called "fundamentally evil."
And the other stories acknowledge that Trump may not gain full immunity, but that, in just hearing the case, the court has lent a certain degree of legitimacy to the notion of a president being, at least, somewhat above the law.
However, If you persist in placing faith in a court that has, to date, given VALID cause for concerns, on MANY fronts, then have at it.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,514 posts)uponit7771
(90,368 posts)Initech
(100,115 posts)The Heritage Foundation isn't a think tank - it's a terrorist organization and a threat to the stability of the United States. It must be destroyed.
B.See
(1,333 posts)Well, not for most of us, at least. The excerpt below was from the first paragraph of the above. I broke it up into four pieces for easier reading.
We promised ourselves that there would be cool heads and grand bargains and that even though the court might sometimes help Trump in small ways, it would privilege the country in the end.
We kept thinking that at least for Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts, the voice of reasoned never-Trumpers might still penetrate the Fox News fog.
We told ourselves that at least six justices, and maybe even seven, of the most MAGA-friendly court in history would still want to ensure that this Novembers elections would not be the last in history. Political hacks they may be, but they were not lawless ones.
"We" told ourselves? Not I. I believe in the adage, "If it quacks like a duck...."
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The Court Just Sealed Everyones Fate, Including Its Own - The New RepublicThe justices seem to think that the power they apparently just handed Donald Trump cant be used against them someday. Right.
B.See
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acolytes and SYCOPHANTS, in the GOP and on the Supreme Court, are willing to ABDICATE even their OWN power and autonomy, to enthrone a criminal pos dictator wanna-be:
CNN Analyst Torpedoes Trump By Floating President Kidnapping and Harming Supreme Court Justice To Appoint New One - Mediaite
B.See
(1,333 posts)'It's much worse': Yale historian says SCOTUS is flirting with making Trump more than king - Rawstory
according to the professor, the justices "are instead flirting with the idea that a single person can be outside any constitutional system, outside the rule of law as such.
B.See
(1,333 posts)Democracy in the death throes, yet no mass demonstrations for HER. Anyone else see something screwy with that picture?
A supreme failure: How the most corrupt high court ever is getting cover from the press - Rawstory
B.See
(1,333 posts)"Im profoundly disturbed about the apparent direction of the court," said Luttig, a conservative jurist President George H.W. Bush appointed to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1991. "I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried for the crimes he committed in attempting to overturn the 2020 election."
...EVER.
One vote from the end of democracy': Weissmann sounds alarm on SCOTUS immunity case - MSNBC
Constitutional law scholar lays out the Supreme Courts rule of lawlessness - Alternet