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[moniss]

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[Irish_Dem]

1. A corrupt partisan Supreme Court will do what it wants to do.

Serious lawyers don't seem to understand that point.

But I do think the SC will hesitate to give Trump immunity.
Only for the reason they will never tolerate any one having the same immunity they have.

[dhol82]

2. Sadly, I don't have the same belief

This is a majority conservative court. Most of them are true believers or sycophants.
I’m not even sure they will respond to embarrassment.

[Irish_Dem]

3. That is my point.

The only way they might not grant immunity to Trump is for entirely self serving reasons.
No one will get the total immunity they themselves have.
They want to be the top dogs.

But I could see them granting immunity to just Trump.
Not for any other president.

[MOMFUDSKI]

5. Agree.

They have worked for 50 years to arrive at this kind of power. They are full steam ahead.

[Lovie777]

4. Paid for 6 RWer's justices........................................

[brush]

6. The experts are going by the "no man is above the law" axiom that we all...

go by, and assume courts, especially the highest court, SCOTUS, would rule accordingly.

Apparently not this SCOTUS though as it's decided to hear the trump immunity case even though both the district court judge and Circuit Court justice panel have handed down bullet proof decisions that no president or former president is above the law and therefore can't commit crimes with impunity.

Why they've had since December of 2023 to move to let the Circuit Court's ruling stand but suddenly nearly three months later they decide to hear the case and schedule it for the very last day possible, April 25, 2024, thereby seemingly to be reading from trump's playbook of delay, delay, delay so there will be no time to try the case before the Nov. election.

But come on, it's the highest court in the land, SCOTUS, they couldn't possibly be so obviously corrupt...not this court, which has shown absolutely no hints of corruption. It couldn't possibly be.

[moniss]

7. Right you are

on all counts and it is infuriating to me that even the media we feel is more even handed than Faux etc. gives this "deference" if you will and doesn't just call these things for what they are. We all see it. MSNBC is not a straight "news only" channel. It is opinion and analysis in that regard. So you get a smorgasbord of it all. So just say it for heaven's sake.

[Silent Type]

8. SC will not give trump, or any Prez, immunity for matters not directly related to presidency.

[moniss]

9. We all hope so but

the point is that we also thought they wouldn't completely overturn Roe. Don't think for one minute that they wouldn't issue a ruling declaring the things he did do both on 1/6 and after with documents to be part of his Presidential duties and decisions directly related to his presidency and therefore immune from prosecution. If this court had been in place for Nixon there's a good chance we would never have gotten the tapes.

[GP6971]

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