The Supreme Courtās decision to hear Donald Trumpās 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 Trumpās alleged subversion of the 2020 vote will not come before summer.
The countryās highest court wants the final word on the former presidentās assertion of immunity, even if it may ultimately affirm a comprehensive ruling of the lower federal court that rejected Trumpās sweeping claim.
For Trump, Wednesdayās order amounts to another win from the justice system he routinely attacks. The justicesā 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 courtās lurch to the right, most notably its 2022 reversal of nearly a half century of abortion rights and reproductive freedom.
They scheduled the next stuff to happen toward the end of April. Thatās not fast. It nearly guarantees the case wonāt happen before the election. It wonāt happen at all after the election unless Biden wins. The Supreme Court fucked us here, and they absolutely know that.
And theyāll find in the Colorado case that states canāt remove insurrectionists until specifically convicted in a criminal trial, so that will also be tucked behind their delay. I even think theyāll find that no, presidents are not perpetually above the law, but then stay any case that would kick either kick Trump off the ballot or send him to prison because now itās too close to the election and/or itās being appealed.
Thereās no real reason to take this case, particularly after refusing earlier, but they donāt have to be blatant to get exactly the result they want.
For them, that is.
No, it doesnāt. Thereās a lot of time between April and November, and the court has a history of accelerating decisions when needed.
If they wanted to fuck us they would just decide not to take the case, or take it on their normal schedule instead of the accelerated one in April.