Running SCOTUS thread

Reset the shot clock to another 24 months.

 

Lying on taxes - clearly unofficial.

Hoarding documents like an unorganized sixth-grader’s backpack - unclear.

Forcing Georgia to make up votes - leaning to unofficial.

January 6th - leaning to official (sigh).

The NY ruling is still in play.

 

Honestly, this is more of a win than a loss, because I’m pretty sure the truly fucked up shit he did was unofficial.

 

The Supremes made certain there will be no trial until after the election. If Trump wins, almost every Federal charge goes away. It's a very Presidential protective decision. It may even get him off the hook in Georgia.

I would hope that this goes alongside Roe as motivation to get out and vote.


I fully expect that Trump takes many victory laps, ignoring any doubt or nuance, as he did after the Mueller investigation or his impeachments.

 

What doubt or nuance should he have not ignored after those events? He won them and here we are as a result.

 

There was never going to be a trial before the election on the federal matters.

 

There could have been. They could have taken up the case when Jack Smith brought it forward and asked them to. They returned it to the lower court, then when it got back to the Supreme Court, they sat on their decision until the very last day and sent it *back* to the lower court. They made absolutely certain that it was not going to be possible.

Tell me again how the Supreme Court is apolitical.

 

Mueller did not declare him innocent. William Barr did, two months before the report was actually releassed.

 

This also allows the non-Trump Republicans to get him out.

You want real tin foil hat?

He gets elected and then bombshell shit is leaked, unofficial shit he did. It goes to trial. He gets removed and the GOP still keeps the White House.

 

How do you rule "official acts" get immunity without defining "official acts?"

 

"Official acts" = anything a Republican President does.
"Unofficial acts" = anything a Democratic President does.