In Win for Trump, Supreme Court Sabotages January 6 Trial
"They're trying to make Trump win", says one commentator. Sure seems so.
It was thought that the Supreme Court would decline to even hear the case, so comprehensive and convincing was the unanimous decision by the three judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals. That would have let stand the lower court's finding that Trump cannot claim immunity from prosecution for acts committed while president.
The appeals court ruling was on February 6th. Delaying a decision that could have been announced a couple of days later and that should have returned the case to Judge Tanya Chutkan's D.C. Circuit Court for the trial to begin, the Supreme Court ran the clock for three weeks before saying it would, after all, hear the case it had earlier declined. They put the case on the docket for the week of April 22 nd, on the final days of the last week the Court will hear arguments this term.
Another two months will have passed. And it means we will not hear from the Court whether Trump is or is not immune until the end of the Court's term, the final week of June. And, we will bet, it will even be the last decision announced.
This for a case whose trial date had been set for March 4th and which the Court has pushed so far down the calendar that the trial now will almost certainly not go forward before the election. At least four justices — the number of votes needed to decide to hear a case — have decided to put their thumbs on the scale to make sure of that. America has a justice system that permits a stream of appeals and motions meant only to delay, which the Trump legal team has exploited masterfully. The Court has awarded delay tactics with a victory and joined in with its own contributions to the technique.
HELPING TRUMP
By delaying what will now become an irrelevant decision of whether or not Trump has immunity, the Court has conferred on Trump de facto immunity. Making a trial impossible before the election clears the path for the man who engaged in the most treasonous act in our history by his attempt to overthrow the government to keep himself in power. If he wins the election, he will have his Justice Department wipe the slate clean of all federal indictments. One can hardly blame attorney and political commentator Elie Mystal for saying of the justices, "They're trying to make Trump win."
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