This is disappointing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-immunity.html
I thought the decision should be easy and the justices should chide Trump’s lawyers for even imagining that being President shields you from all criminal liability for anything.
Also surprising, for me at least. Then i am disappointed in myself that i allow myself to be surprised.
That is one of the difficulties i have with trump. no matter how many times i am surprised by disappointment, somehow i keep getting surprised by it again and again.
Well I think they are trying to help Trump by pushing the appeals out past the election. But the totally ethical and nonpartisan court would never do that, right amitre?
So that means they also won’t hear the CO case, right? [\red]
Maybe they’re procrastinating as much as possible before taking on the endless trump shit train that will be 2024.
Or they know that Thomas won’t voluntarily recuse himself, and therefore they want to postpone that particular 
-storm, and perhaps even make it moot by the appellate courts providing the verdict they’d prefer, or running out the clock given the Justice Department won’t prosecute a sitting President.
I don’t think there were any dissents on the ruling, so I suspect they want the CoA to rule and then decide if there’s anything they need to clarify that wasn’t addressed.
IFYP
Was this a shadow docket thingy? The ones where they don’t release who voted for and against, and no arguments are heard?
Those crack me up.
This is my assumption too. The immunity trial is scheduled in January, and it doesn’t matter until the election fraud trial in March.
That said I’m generally not impressed by the timeline. There are 4 felony trials to cram into this year, optimistically assuming Trump doesn’t commit more felonies in the next few months. And at least one (Georgia) will take place after he wins the Primary.
A friend of mine has a sister that is a Capitol police officer. She was there on 1/6. This week she’s been making some facebook posts honoring fallen colleagues. I’m not on Facebook, but my buddy has been sending me some of the posts.
They aren’t political posts. She’s honoring those she served with, and sharing her personal experiences in the aftermath. They are about grief, trauma, stress, and sadness. I’m not comfortable sharing them.
Seeing Bloatus calling the insurrectionists “hostages” angers me even more when I see these personal stories of the fallout from the attack.
To fit Trump’s convoluted argument of “the President cannot be convicted for a crime unless first impeached and convicted”, his legal team has argued that he could not be convicted if, for example, he sold pardons for profit or sent Seal Team 6 to murder his political opponents.
By Trump’s argument, he never would have failed at his own coup. He would have killed every politician willing to impeach him long before, and never would face an election or any challenge to his power.
He knows he’s stalling for time, hoping to become President or at least drag it out until he dies.
I think we should stop making assumptions like “he is stalling for time” and realize this is a real thought in his head now.
No doubt, he is the bull-goose loony. No one plays the victim to a bigger audience with such success.
Maybe that does make him a genius?
Just lucky to live in a time with so many gullible people willing to do anything to make other people cry because they deserve to.
We seem to be in the uncanny valley of making the libs cry.
Combined with the ability to reach them. I suppose we have always been gullible.
The problem is that once Trump’s accolites are deeply embedded into the body politic, it will become very, very hard to remove them.
See Poland for a potential US-future once Trump is gone.
Its amazing what largely incompetent people will do to retain power and influence once they get a real taste for it.
People may stay home, but Trump voters are more likely to vote for Bernie Sanders than for a libertarian. A huge fraction of his base is “populists”, which Trump does a good job of pretending to be.
