Trump in his latest rants now is desperate, moving to lobby for POTUS immunity, or simply an acquittal, or yes, even 2024’s Austrian fruit-bread election where everything is ‘Stollen”.
Not unlike the difficulties of 14th Amendment solutions that lack the conviction of Trump on charges of insurrection and seditious conspiracy, leaving the 2024 election open to the fascists’ learning curve may end democracy. Insurrection denial remains, despite the convicted and imprisoned J6 criminals.
Will David Koch come back to finance zombie justice. Don’t we all see where this is going, to the fear hole in Denny’s, not Shoney’s. Darn fear-eaters. The default method will be the various DC lobby groups and think tanks and a distinct lack of media investigations to track the trails resembling the issues after 2016’s foreign influence. An indicator of such efforts include the fact that Dean Phillips’s campaign is run by Republicans.
For months, Harlan Crow and members of Congress have been engaged in a fight over whether the billionaire needs to divulge details about his gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, including globe-trotting trips aboard his 162-foot yacht, the Michaela Rose.
Crow’s lawyer argues that Congress has no authority to probe the GOP donor’s generosity and that doing so violates a constitutional separation of powers between Congress and the Supreme Court.
Members of Congress say there are federal tax laws underlying their interest and a known propensity by the ultrarich to use their yachts to skirt those laws.
Tax data obtained by ProPublica provides a glimpse of what congressional investigators would find if Crow were to open his books to them. Crow’s voyages with Thomas, the data shows, contributed to a nice side benefit: They helped reduce Crow’s tax bill.
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Trump, who has denied wrongdoing on Jan. 6, has said he will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, whose 6-3 conservative majority includes three Trump appointees.
The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday not to fast-track consideration of former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he is immune to prosecution on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election was unquestionably a victory for Mr. Trump and his lawyers.
The choice by the justices not to take up the issue now — rendered without explanation — gave a boost to the former president’s legal strategy of delaying the proceedings as much as possible in the hopes of running out the clock before Election Day.
It is not clear, however, that the decision holds any clues to what the Supreme Court might think of the substance of his immunity claim. And the degree to which it pushes off Mr. Trump’s trial will only be determined in coming weeks as the clash over whether he can be prosecuted plays out in the federal appeals court in Washington — and then perhaps makes its way right back to the justices.
How the Supreme Court handles the case at that point could still have profound implications, both for whether the federal election interference indictment will stand and for whether Mr. Trump might succeed in pushing a trial past the election. At that point, if he wins the presidency, he could order the charges to be dropped.
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Former President Donald Trump's argument for presidential immunity regarding the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election is "dangerous" for America well beyond the current moment, warned Republican experts in an amicus brief to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Salon reported on Wednesday.
"Nothing in our Constitution, or any case, supports former President Trump's dangerous argument for criminal immunity," said the brief. "The last thing presidential immunity should do is embolden Presidents who lose re-election to engage in criminal conduct, through official acts or otherwise, as part of efforts to prevent the vesting of executive power required by Article II in their lawfully-elected successors."
Among the signatories to the brief are former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO), former Reagan administration Solicitor General Charles Fried, and former Rep. Mickey Edwards (R-OK), who once chaired the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The appeals court is currently considering Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution for any action taken while he was president, which District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing special counsel Jack Smith's election conspiracy case against Trump, already rejected.
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