This is bad news for the voters of America. The Supreme Court has slow rolled this decision. They could have simply accepted the Appellate Court’s extremely strong ruling that he of course is not immune from all accountability for breaking laws while President.
Given the delay, and the likely further delay in actually releasing their verdict, they are in effect vetoing the DoJ’s claims that American citizens have a right to know if this candidate is in fact, guilty. That is an important variable, wouldn’t you think?
This is more politicization from this right wing extreme court.
Here is the Washington Post article:
www.washingtonpost.com/...
The Supreme Court will review Donald Trump’s unprecedented claim that he is shielded from prosecution for actions taken while in office, further delaying the former president’s D.C. trial on charges of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss to remain in power.
Trump’s pretrial proceedings in D.C. will remain on hold until a ruling is issued, putting the Supreme Court in the politically fraught position of influencing the timing of a federal election-obstruction trial for the leading Republican presidential candidate.
The brief unsigned order issued Wednesday said the justices were not “expressing a view on the merits” of the case and would consider only the question of whether and to what extent a former president has "immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.
Trump’s legal strategy is not to defend himself. It is to delay. This plays right into his strategy. I was hoping for better from the Supreme Court. Why? I have no idea. They have shown us who they are.
Dark days indeed.
