After nearly a month following the arguments, the D.C. Court of Appeals finally handed down its long awaited, but clearly obvious, ruling denying TFG’s presidential immunity claims. Now there is the potential for SCOTUS to have its say if it chooses to grant cert though it could do what it did in the Dobbs case and pretend it is thinking about granting vert for a year while hiding the fact that it had already decided to take the case. Add to this the slow walking of Trump fluffer Judge Cannon down in Florida and whatever delays are going on in Georgia, one has to question whether the US court system actually cares about democracy.
In any functioning democracy, the court system would realize the need to have these cases adjudicated in time for the next election so the public can make informed choices when they go cast their votes. Instead, we have members of one party choosing to delay as long as possible any court proceedings into their leader and members of the democracy party beholden to, currently, outdated notions of fairness that only helps the anti-democracy party increase its ability to thwart democracy. The ultimate in justice delayed is justice denied.
We are fortunate there is one trial that looks like it will begin on time if the more salient cases continue to be delayed indefinitely. While the NYS hush money/business records fraud case has been termed the least important case, prosecutors can use the case to show how Trump was able to use his fraud to keep voters from knowing all the information they should have had access to in the 2016 election. Should prosecutors use this fact throughout the trial, the media and the Biden campaign can run with it and link it to Trump’s pattern of election obstruction and hopefully voters will see the pattern clear as day.
Of course we cannot forget how AG Merrick Garland’s slow walking the investigation and not appointing a special counsel in the first months of the Biden administration to speed up the timeline for getting indictments brought and cases filed in a more timely manner has put the country in this predicament.
Maybe the judiciary system will wake up soon and realize the danger, but with the corrupt 6 on SCOTUS, I do not have high hopes.
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