President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow the legal arguments with presidential immunity to follow the traditional path through the appeals court [pdf court filing]. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith wants to sidestep the appeals court and go directly to the Supreme Court for resolution.
As noted by Politico, President Trump’s lawyers “repeatedly warning the justices to avoid “haste,” Trump’s lawyers skewered Smith for taking extraordinary steps to preserve the March 4, 2024, trial date without detailing why taking the case to a jury just over two months from now is so critical.” In essence, Jack Smith is trying to force a fast trial on schedule to gain maximum interference with the GOP primary election, while Trump’s lawyers are calling him out for it.
Jack Smith filed a response to the Trump filing, again reasserting, “the public interest in a prompt resolution of this case favors an immediate, definitive decision by this court. The charges here are of the utmost gravity. This case involves — for the first time in our nation’s history — criminal charges against a former president based on his actions while in office. And not just any actions: alleged acts to perpetuate himself in power by frustrating the constitutionally prescribed process for certifying the lawful winner of an election,” wrote Mr. Smith. “The nation has a compelling interest in a decision.”
Smith is worried the appeals court arguments and final decision will extend beyond the 2024 term of the Supreme Court, setting up a lengthy continuation of the DC case against Trump into October and November of 2024. Trump’s team is saying the issues before the court are unprecedented and careful deliberation is needed.
To support the position of Donald Trump, 19 states filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court today [pdf Here].
[…] “In 234 years of American history, no President ever faced criminal prosecution for his official acts. Until 19 days ago, no court had ever addressed whether immunity from such prosecution exists. To this day, no appellate court has addressed it. The question stands among the most complex, intricate, and momentous issues that this Court will be called on to decide.
This Court’s ordinary review procedures will allow the D.C. Circuit to address this appeal in the first instance, thus granting this Court the benefit of an appellate court’s prior consideration of these historic topics and performing the traditional winnowing function that this Court has long preferred. Indeed, the D.C. Circuit has already granted highly expedited review of President Trump’s appeal over President Trump’s opposition, with briefing to be concluded by January 2, 2024, and oral argument scheduled for January 9, 2024.
The Special Counsel urges this Court to bypass those ordinary procedures, including the longstanding preference for prior consideration by at least one court of appeals, and rush to decide the issues with reckless abandon. The Court should decline that invitation at this time, for several reasons. (read more, pdf)
Making matters more complex for the high court to review, former Attorney General Edwin Meese III and law professors Steven G Calabresi and Gary S Lawson have filed a briefing as Amici Curiae (friend of the court, not connected to either party), [pdf HERE] challenging the legitimacy of the Biden appointed special counsel, Jack Smith.
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Regardless of whether the Supreme Court wants to weigh in on these issues, they are going to have to respond. This is in addition to the Supreme Court ultimately having to determine how the insufferable Colorado Lawfare ruling is going to stand.
The Roberts led Supreme Court does not like issues involving the political dynamic; however, on these two issues they are likely going to have to choose. If they deny the Jack Smith request, the trial of Donald Trump could be delayed until the resolution of presidential immunity ultimately reaches them (after appellate court review). However, there is a strong possibility the appeals court will side with President Trump, and the appeal to SCOTUS will then come from Jack Smith.
Lawers-Pharisees :
Likewise, Satan’s descendants are those who identify with him in his lies. This is why Jesus said in John 8:44 to the Pharisees,
“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.”
He IS the father of lies, and globalists are his children.
The more that I read about The Luciferians, I honestly can not believe that they can be as insidiously demonic as what I’ve discovered, it truly boggles my little brain…I think I do have a very little brain ; ) thank God for belssings! hehehe
Prosecuting a political opponent for the crimes they created. It doesn’t get any more communist than that…
Biden’s brazen corruption has opened my eyes. This summer I was on a horse trail ride hosted by a member of the Crow nation on tribal land adjacent to the Little Bighorn battlefield. He told a story about how the Bureau of Indian Affairs put his brother, the tribal chief executive, in jail on phony charges of embezzlement. This was in the 1990’s, in retaliation for him calling out corrupt dealings by the BIA with private non-Indian business entities.
At one time I would have dismissed this tale as a crazy conspiracy theory. I researched the case and learned the BIA accused him of diverting a fairly small amount of money to his personal benefit via payments made through a housing program. At trial he was not allowed to present as his defense that he didn’t control the monies he allegedly embezzled.
I recognized the smell of the scheme. The brother, acting in his official capacity as tribal leader, questioned the BIA’s mismanagement. In retaliation they set him up and then railroaded him on phony charges while preventing him from presenting a robust defense in court. Exactly what the Feds have done to President Trump and the J6 defendants.
That is so much like what we are watching happen today. Hopefully these egregious prosecutorial acts will prompt legislation that will result in them being disbarred and jailed – and the same for ‘judges’ who enable these evil people.
I should add – after the brother was removed BIA engineered the installation of a Crow woman who worked for BIA as leader. She was a complete puppet and rubber stamp for the BIA.
Let me guess, FBI was investigating agency?
It’s absolutely believable. Read Sidney Powell’s License to Lie, published in 2014, which details cases she witnessed involving prosecutorial corruption against Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch, Enron, and former Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens. It’s extremely disturbing and as we are seeing, it continues today.
The common denominator in all of those cases: Andrew Weismann.
Why is there even a need for BIA?
Fair question.
Yes, Jack. The First Amendment and our Extensive Republic is a bit “frustrating” for those involved in a coup. The people will choose their president.
This exposes Hu’s appointment as Special Counsel for the Hunter Biden case was fake also and that is why he came up with nothing.
And won’t it be something if Roberts happened to be compromised as he may have been an Epstein client?
We should know later this month.
Probably why the “revised” list will be coming out soon..
Complete with deletes and additions.
They have had ample time to doctor it.
The friend of the court (amici) brief that was filed independently of the other litigants, is absolutely magnificent.
It makes the best, most important argument that Jack Smith has zero authority to prosecute anyone, let alone President Trump.
In fact, the whole idea of a “special counsel” is illegal and illegitimate. Here is the final paragraph.
CONCLUSION
Not clothed in the authority of the federal government, Smith is a modern example of the naked em-
peror. Improperly appointed, he has no more authority to represent the United States in this Court than
Bryce Harper, Taylor Swift, or Jeff Bezos. That fact is sufficient to sink Smith’s petition, and the Court
should deny review. We express no views on the merits or issues addressed in Smith’s unauthorized petition.
One of the authors of that brief is a former US Attorney General. Two others are esteemed scholars who have been cited as authorities in past decisions by the SCOTUS. Their observations are reasoned and valid. The present AG tried to appoint a “rabid fool” to protect his own US Attorneys, but had no Constitutional authority to do so.
EXACTLY!
Also in its direct, simple, bullseye wording that even the average 6th grader can comprehend. Not saying SCOTUS needs that sort of dumbing down, just that this is a very simple situation in every facet and it should be an easy judgement to make. Naked emperor indeed.
AND that is why when writing ONE always writes for clarity and not put in words too fill space…Smith is about to get a lesson that NO ONE will get because when the decision comes out, and the Supremes KNOW THIS, esp. the scribe by Edward Meese, that is the NAIL in the coffin…
Ketanji Brown Jackson couldn’t define what a woman is; she probably needs things dumbed down so she can understand it.
I heard they did a cartoon version for her.
Both her and for the wise Latina <sarc>.
Interesting choice…
Harper hits home runs.
Swift sings like a canary.
Bezos delivers the goods.
Are they trolling? “We do a little trolling. It’s called doing a little trolling.”
Be careful there Jack, you may just burn your ass as you attempt to jump over this candlestick.
I’d rather hear the canary.
On page 17 0f the Meese Amicus Brief:
“A reading of § 533 to create essentially unlimited inferior officer appointment power in the Attorney General wreaks havoc on this structure. It would allow the Attorney General to appoint an entire shadow DOJ to replace the functions of every statutorily specified officer.”
This was in fact what happened when the Weissmann/Mueller ‘Specious’ Counsel became the DOJ—the extra-constitutional spawn of the Surveillance State—as Sundance wisely pointed out.
Yes, Sundance has always been way ahead of everyone else when it comes to figuring out this stuff.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the authors of this brief were familiar with the writings of SD.
Chief Justice Roberts is compromised. It was an advisor to Robert’s legal council who leaked the Dobbs Decision. That man (SS) then had to resign, but Roberts kept it quiet, lying to the public by saying that the leaker wasn’t discovered. Just by “coincidence” the leaker is married to Mary B. McCord. McCord is the lawfare weapon of choice who moves around to different departments to make sure that the traitorous effort stays on track.
Sheldon Snook was the leaker?
I am aghast.
… where do they get these names?
The names are auto generated along with the operation name at langly
AI must be in their bag of tricks……
This Sheldon Snook Mary McCord connection to Roberts has to come out big – it is a major deal. The MSM will of course downplay it
Holy crap… this is coming to a full boil!!!
Looking like a boiling pot, lid on, with a metal handle.
Jackie Boy has no legitimacy, neither does the guy who hired him, keep moving past the Joker and you will find the strings.
Have they bleached the floors and computers in Barry’s shack in DC ?
Lawyers, guns and money.
Werewolves of Washington.
IMHO, John Roberts is a wholly-owned tool of the security state. Neither do I have any confidence in the SJW’s – Kavanaugh and Barrett. SJW’s tend to be pure marxist totalitarians under the prayer shawls.
This country is in a tough place with few solid Christians in positions to do the right thing.
My adult daughter proudly claimed to be a Social Justice Warrior (cute term for kids to do the dirty work for the intellectual dullards). Slowly, but surely she came to realize she is nothing more than a water carrier for the grubby hands behind the curtain. But, so far, that Pride won’t let her say that she’s been had.
There are a lot of them out there. And pride was/is the devil’s sin.
Which states cosigned this submittal? I cant find the list.
The Supreme Court right now is Los Alamos. Last stand to restore this country. If the ru balk, it’s over.
For simple clarity: “In all criminal prosecutions, the ACCUSED shall enjoy the RIGHT to a speedy and public trial” is the exact wording of the first clause of the 6th Amendment. And in plain fact, “speedy trial” means exactly the opposite of taking three years to simply indict. The so-called “rights” of Smith’s kangaroo court be damned in the roaring flames of hell.
Yes. Think of the J6ers and their “speedy trials.”
Like Pavlov’s dog when I see a picture of Jack(ass) Smith I begin to salivate and gnaw my tongue and my bowels boil and my ears turn red and my pupils dilate and I have an urge to purge.
Please take it away!
Wow
I thought it was bad just shooting knives from my eyeballs.
That’s funny! Great response.
Lawfare election interference shenanigans …
will be the perhaps even more consequential hearings on the Biden family’s extensive international bribery operations, which may shed some light on how we come to suffer a president and a party bent on destroying our country.
Biden campaign compares Trump to Adolf Hitler with “TRUMP PARROTS HITLER,”
Biden’s “”poisoning the blood” and the media is ok with that.
Biden issued a tyrannical response
Gee, pretty easy list to demolish. There is no “right to chose” in our Constitution. Give us an example of his threatening civil rights. The “voting rights” scandal is nothing more than an attempt to purge the outdated rolls and return to a system in which it is less easy to cheat…and the last?
Um…no wars in the ME/Europe, NATO nations paying their fair share, America seen as a staunch ally of the only democratic country in the ME (not the ally of those who would destroy them), having a strong economy….and being the biggest exporter of oil as well (as being energy independent) — those pretty much spell out not just a country with “standing,” but a country that is (was) respected.
Whoever is writing biden’s blurbs is doing a poor job of posting easily-seen-through generalized talking points, but that’s about it.
I guess Joe doesn’t realize that this nation is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic; so, maybe he is right that Trump is a threat to democracy where the majority rules. Given there is really only one party, the uniparty, it makes sense.
Haven’t you heard him say those words? That your best take?
I do have to say though, sometimes I want to throttle trump for handing the Left the easiest layups on the planet. The simple fact is he used the words “immigrants” in connection with “poisoning the BLOOD of this country.” Could he not have said simply poisoning the country with fentanyl?
My God if he’d just stop shooting himself in the dick once in a while. And yes, I know full well how dishonest they’re being. Which is why he needs to learn to excercise just a smidge of verbal discipline for once.
What on earth are you carping “dick” about verbal discipline?
The fainting couch is over that way.
This U.S. Supreme court which refused to even consider evidence of rigged elections 2020, now maybe being held to account for it by not nipping all this in the bud when they had the chance.
Just like that, in the blink of an eye, the news about the Colorado Supreme Court’s droll action against PDJT vanished from the front page top screens of The New York Times. WHY IS THAT?
Because the political Left has finally managed to embarrass itself with a “lawfare” gambit so nakedly fatuous that it exposes the faction’s drive to destroy the election process, and with it our country.
The more they fight Trump, the stronger he gets.
You can see this at work here – this seemed inevitable to me. I’m delighted to see it.
The Rise of Black Support for Trump
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/the-rise-of-black-support-for-trump-5515133?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
“People are also noticing the justice system’s seemingly unjust treatment of President Trump—a fate many black people have experienced.
“They’re saying to themselves: ‘Now wait a minute; this looks very familiar,'” Mr. Fisher said. “Subconsciously, that’s a powerful thing.”
““Pinning all of these different charges on one man to see which one sticks is the norm within the black community,” she said.
“The same biased, racist system that is trying to railroad him is the same biased, racist system that railroaded them.”
As the former president headed toward Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail to have his mug shot taken on Aug. 24, videos circulated on social media showing black people cheering for the former president as his motorcade passed. Some shouted, “Free Trump!”
Similar sentiments echoed across social media.
“Trump is a ‘brother’ now. I’m sorry; you go to jail in Zone 6, Atlanta, you’re a ‘brother,’” one unidentified black man declared in video footage posted on X.”
I love all the above (even though the truth is, all the “black community” (not the phrasing I’d chose, but there it is, in the article)…all they claim they face…
…is really what is faced by anyone of any color who does not have $$ for expensive representation. It’s a class issue, not a race issue (as are most of the issues blamed on “race.”)
Maybe somebody needs to point out to the “justices” that Jack Smith is interfering in an official proceeding … the US election … and belongs in jail if held to the same standards which he seeks to impose on other people.
I would remind are dimwitted leftists terrorists, they are going open a door that cannot be closed. Biden is guilty, Obama we know committed multiple crimes, Clinton too was impeached and not prosecuted once he left office All of these to include both bushes would open a can of worms towards accountability. The ripple effects of hundreds of laws being invalidated because they were signed by a convicted person, the argument could be made.
This is chaos, and they have no clue what the future holds for them. Jack Smith will be found to be unconstitutionally appointed. The case disappears however a literal act of congress will not provide the authorization, unless 15 RINO’s have decide to run as democrats in the next election.
Efforts are underway by Republican lawmakers to draft legislation aimed at removing Joe Biden from the ballots in key swing states Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-gop-state-lawmakers-draft-bills-remove-joe/
It’s about time the R’s started fighting back!
Isn’t it interesting how many supposedly “legal” cases (meaning they rest upon what the law says) keep coming up ONLY in those 5-7 swing states, and no others? Hmmm….Just like the emergency poll closings that night….a person might get suspicious; wonder why the left is oblivious to such obvious signs…
SCOTUS: Three lefties (Kagan, Katinje, Sotomayor), two conservative Constitutionalists (Thomas, Alito), three Liberals in disguise (Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh) and one unknown (Gorsuch). Not hooeful.
Play on words: it is hooeful, as in full of ‘hos’; i.e., whores!
Jack Smith is a hired Trump hater and a paid political paid Merrick Garland whore! He has a checkered past to say the least!
Doesn’t the fact that there was no delay in transfering the presidency to the Pervert-in-Chief de facto prove that there was no interference in the election process?
Yes, but they weren’t greeted at the White House by the REAL, as in duly elected, and ONLY President and First Lady, President Trump and Melania.
This has all been a word salad from the beginning. They have tried to make J6 the day power is transferred, when it is nothing of the sort, and never has been.
DECLINED.
REJECTED.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Supreme Court Declines to Fast-Track Special Counsel Petition, Handing Trump a Win
By Catherine Yang
22 Dec 2023
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/in-win-for-trump-scotus-declines-to-fast-track-special-counsel-petition-5551726
“Three petitions were made at the Supreme Court challenging the Department of Justice’s novel use of charging defendants with corruptly obstructing an “official proceeding.” The original statute is related to evidence tampering, but in Jan. 6 cases it’s been used to refer to Congress’s counting of the votes.
This affects some 330 cases, including President Trump’s, and if the Supreme Court deems it an improper use, it could majorly complicate President Trump’s case as prosecutors rush to bring it to trial in the current term.”
BTW, I believe I was the 1st to report here the lawfare tactic to be used against President Trump and the “J6ers”. The novel use of charging defendants with corruptly “obstructing an official proceeding”.
And I came across it in a strange and accidental way. I had also been reporting here on the Theranos trials. One of the guys that interviewed Lyin’ Lizzie, her usual type, an older man, bought her fairy tale story hook, line, and sinker. Apparently, not being a REAL journalist, he did no REAL investigations of his own. He was a big wig at some media rag, published a glowing story straight from Lizzi’s Lyin’ Lips and then John Careyrou of WSJ came along and tore it all down with a major exposé on the crooks at Theranos. It was downhill for Lizzie from there.
So after reading his fake story, I research him to see what he’s up to and guess what? He writes for Lawfare. And guess what he had just put in writing? Their novel obstructing an official proceeding plan.
I posted about it here with links, and commented that if this is the definition of obstructing an official proceeding, let me list the charges that should be filed regarding the 2020 elections, and the vote counts thereof, which are a hell of a lot more important than the electoral college vote counts, because without honest elections, they mean NOTHING! That is what this fight is all about. My list went something like this:
And that is just the tip of the MASSIVE iceberg due to the MASSIVE obstruction of our official proceedings in each and every city and state.
There were a lot of Theranos links to corrupt people, even The Big Guy. They were liked to Fusion GPS and David Boies, who did the smear jobs and thuggery. So many connections, so little time.
AND, this novel charge comes from the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002.
“Corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding is a federal felony under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002″
Anyone who has ever worked under this knows it’s all about having and preserving an audit trail, therefore the biggest obstruction of an official proceeding is refusing to provide us with the backup data from the machines and logs and anything and everything that can be audited in a timely and efficient manner.
Replacing whole local election forces with unknown outside workers is also obstruction of an official proceeding.
This is the guy that helped make Lizzie famous:
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/contributors/rparloff
This CEO is out for blood
By Roger Parloff
12 Jun 2014
https://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes
How Theranos Misled Me
By Roger Parloff
17 Dec 2015
https://fortune.com/2015/12/17/how-theranos-misled-me-elizabeth-holmes
What Do—and Will—the Criminal Prosecutions of the Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters Tell Us?
By Roger Parloff
4 Nov 2021
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-do%E2%80%94and-will%E2%80%94-criminal-prosecutions-jan-6-capitol-rioters-tell-us
More than one war has been started by an assassination.
Vigilant Fox: Tucker Carlson Issues Major Warning on What the Establishment Has in Store for Trump
by Guest Contributor, Dec. 22, 2023 2:20 pm
This article originally appeared on VigilantNews.com and was republished with permission.
“They [the establishment] look at Trump as a vampire, and they put a stake in his heart, but they’re afraid that that stake could come out any time,” expressed military historian Victor Davis Hanson in a viral video in late November.
“They are terrified of him because they think he’s smarter this time, and he has just cause to really get angry because of what they did to him.”
Tucker Carlson Concurs
The Colorado Supreme Court made a significant ruling Tuesday, disqualifying former President Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot. This decision is anchored in the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which specifically mentions that any public official who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States may be disqualified from holding public office.
Read more on that here.
On Monday, Tucker Carlson told Dan Bongino, “If you want to know what things are going to look like in the future, just chart out what has been happening recently and ask yourself, are things accelerating or decelerating? … just chart it out. And in the case of Trump, they started with protests, they moved to impeachment. Now they’re at indictment. None of it has worked. What’s next? What could possibly be next?” he asked.
That next step appears to be taking Trump off the ballot altogether. But Tucker suggested something much more sinister is looming.
“If you felt, and you really believed — and a lot of them do — that the worst thing that could happen to the country, and, more specifically, to you, in the professional class, is to have Donald Trump as president. And everything you have tried has failed. And they have been accelerating steps: protests, impeachment, indictment. How many more arrows do you have in your quiver? And what’s the next one? And, of course, it’s assassination.”
“And assassination happens around the world,” Carlson continued. “I had dinner with the former president of Haiti in my house last night. His successor was murdered in his bed in the presidential palace in Port Au Prince. And he’s hardly alone. People get assassinated. I mean, they’ve been assassinated in this country, far more often than we’re willing to admit. It happened in Japan.”
Carlson expressed that it is not crazy to think the same exact thing could happen to Trump. “And, of course, it’s the last thing I want,” he added.
“I said it directly to Trump, by the way, because it’s so obvious. How could you not say that? So I did. And he did not engage with me at all on that subject, and I don’t know what he actually thinks of it, but he’s smart. And so, he must know that that’s true.”
Carlson ended by suggesting that the very reason this topic is not widely discussed or dismissed is that it holds an uncomfortable or inconvenient truth for those in power: “Look at the things you’re not allowed to say. You’re not allowed to say them, not because they’re conspiracy theories or lies. You’re not allowed to say them precisely because they are not conspiracy theories or lies. They are true.”
The entire Tucker Carlson interview with Dan Bongino is available to watch via the video below:
Continue reading here …
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/vigilant-fox-tucker-carlson-issues-major-warning-what/
OAN has the better coverage, but I have no way of uploading the video clip?
BREAKING: Supreme Court Sends Jack Smith Packing – DENIES His Request For Ruling on Trump Immunity Argument
by Cristina Laila Dec. 22, 2023 1:52 pm
*BREAKING NEWS*
The US Supreme Court on Friday denied Jack Smith’s request for a ruling on Trump’s immunity argument.
Jack Smith last Monday asked the US Supreme Court to weigh in on Trump’s immunity claims.
President Trump on Wednesday urged the US Supreme Court to reject Jack Smith’s request to expedite the ruling on his immunity argument.
Trump’s lawyers argued that Trump is immune from federal prosecution for alleged ‘crimes’ committed while he served as US President.
“In 234 years of American history, no president ever faced criminal prosecution for his official acts. Until 19 days ago, no court had ever addressed whether immunity from such prosecution exists,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in Wednesday’s filing, according to CBS News. “To this day, no appellate court has addressed it. The question stands among the most complex, intricate, and momentous issues that this Court will be called on to decide.”
Jack Smith skipped over the appellate court and went straight to the US Supreme Court on Trump’s immunity claims.
On Thursday Jack Smith admitted his January 6 case is currently on hold. He admitted he wants to convict Trump before the 2024 election.
“This case involves—for the first time in our Nation’s history—criminal charges against a former President based on his actions while in office,” Smith wrote in Thursday’s filing, according to Fox News. “And not just any actions: alleged acts to perpetuate himself in power by frustrating the constitutionally prescribed process for certifying the lawful winner of an election. The Nation has a compelling interest in a decision on respondent’s claim of immunity from these charges—and if they are to be tried, a resolution by conviction or acquittal, without undue delay.”
“The court denied without comment special counsel Jack Smith’s request asking the justices to circumvent the normal appeals court process and quickly decide the legal question, which looms large in Trump’s criminal prosecution in Washington over allegations of election interference,” NBC News reported.
Jack Smith will now have to wait for the US Circuit Court of Appeals for DC to make a decision. Oral arguments begin on January 9, 2024.
The US Supreme Court may consider the appeal after the appellate court does, however there is a chance that the SCOTUS won’t take up this case in this term.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-supreme-court-sends-jack-smith-packing-denies/
Jack Smith got that Big L energy today.
I don’t see how this is a win though? The argument will go to the DC Circuit court. That’s hardly friendly territory. So what difference does it make? Incidentally, the immunity claim seems like a weak one, given how easily dismissed on merit the whole insurrection argument is in the first place. The Trump team isn’t arguing that, instead they’re saying he’s immune. 1: it makes for bad optics. What needs to be argued is the factually absurdity of the insurrection claim itself. 2: it puts the court in a position of granting criminal immunity to future presidents via precedent which they’re likely loathe to do.
I’d love to hear a good explanation of why any of this makes sense.
When I see pictures of the Supreme Court with Ketanji Brown Jackson, I think of the exchange – “can you define a woman” – and she is incapable of defining a woman.
I would have loved the follow up question to be – “so Ketanji, you can’t define what a woman is, but are YOU a woman .. its an important question because Joe Biden has said he would appoint a woman .. and if you’re not sure, we can’t be sure either. And if you say you are a woman, how do you know?”
SCOTUS denied Private Citizen Jack Smith’s request for expedited consideration of President Trump’s immunity appeal.
Love the fact that they quote the Constitution and Federalist –saying it’s not a legal case in the first place–kinda wonder why the 19 AGs couldn’t do the same to his original filing, with the states saying they’re challenging that instead of challenging on the base of “No, not only is it not a legal case, BUT it’s so important that it had BETTER go through every single step possible.” Still, that’s better than not challenging it —
Still, does it worry anyone that Smith WANTS SCOTUS to hear it right away? It makes it seem as tho’ he thinks it’s a sure bet once it gets there, doesn’t it — or he wouldn’t be so eager to get it there? Anyway, hope there’s no truth to that, altho’ considering who’s in there, you can see why he’d see it that way.
To quote Elon – “GFY”