The Supreme Court has granted certiorari and accepted the case of President Trump arguing presidential immunity from prosecution for official acts while in office. At the heart of the issue the court will determine if the charges brought by Jack Smith need to be dropped, or if the case against President Trump can continue forward.
If the Supreme Court begins defining what types of immunity exist for Presidents in office, they are beginning to open the door to multiple Lawfare efforts against the chief executive by agencies of the administrative state. This could be extremely troublesome for the future abilities of the presidency far beyond Donald Trump.
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WASHINGTON DC – In a one-page order Wednesday, the court set an expedited schedule to hear the immunity issue, with oral arguments to be set during the week of April 22. In the meantime, proceedings in the trial court will remain frozen.
[T]he court’s decision to keep the pretrial proceedings frozen is a blow to special counsel Jack Smith’s effort to bring Trump to trial this year. Smith has charged Trump with four felonies stemming from his bid to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
Trump claims that, as a former president, he enjoys broad immunity from criminal prosecution for acts taken while in office. Lower courts have rejected that claim, but proceedings in the trial court have been paused for more than two months while Trump has litigated the novel immunity question. (more)
The leftist Lawfare cheerleaders are not happy with the Supreme Court decision.
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If the SCOTUS rules that Presidents don’t have immunity, a key point will be what/if any, statute of limitations exist for crimes committed by US Presidents.
Obama committed crimes before our eyes, despite his DOS telling him what he was doing was illegal. (Eg: Sending plane load of unmarked cash to Iran) The list goes on. How about running arms to terrorists and then refusing to provide military assistance to your US Embassy and Ambassador under attack from terrorists?How was Obama involved in Hillary’s illegal server? Or spying on the Trump campaign and aligning with the alphabets to come up with the phony Russia collusion scam that cost US taxpayers millions of dollars?
Biden and his crime family will also be in for a very rough time. It would seem George Bush, Bill Clinton are also very vulnerable to future charges.
All this is moot if we continue to descend into a totalitarian police state, which could happen almost overnight if the Democrat Communist Crime Syndicate secures the WH again in 2024. We have no DOJ that obeys our Constitution now. Unless we get someone who has the power to fire the whole lot of those crooks and dirty cops or defund the entire agency, how could that change?
Indeed. I can’t help wondering, if SCOTUS rules presidents don’t have immunity, which enterprising red states will file charges against Biden or Obama? Will some state prosecutor try to charge Bush for “war crimes”? No doubt the justices are at least as smart as I am, and can also see that possibility. I wonder how they’ll dance around the issue this time to avoid “politicizing” it…
If SCOTUS equivocates in its ruling, I predict Trump will be hit immediately with numerous lawsuits over various acts while he was President. Every lefty prosecutor and political activist will try for a piece of him.
Just like they already are. My confidence in the Supremes is very low.
If they are not happy, the Supreme Court must be acting in good faith with our Constitution. If you don’t piss off the Lawfare Criminal Gang, you have missed the mark.