The Supreme Court’s decision to hear Donald Trump’s claim that he should be shielded from criminal prosecution keeps the justices at the center of election-year controversy for several more months and means any verdict on Trump’s alleged subversion of the 2020 vote will not come before summer.
The country’s highest court wants the final word on the former president’s assertion of immunity, even if it may ultimately affirm a comprehensive ruling of the lower federal court that rejected Trump’s sweeping claim.
For Trump, Wednesday’s order amounts to another win from the justice system he routinely attacks. The justices’ intervention in the case, Trump v. United States, also marks another milestone in the fraught relationship between the court and the former president.
Cases related to his policies and his personal dealings consistently roiled the justices behind the scenes. At the same time, Trump, who appointed three of the nine justices, significantly influenced the court’s lurch to the right, most notably its 2022 reversal of nearly a half century of abortion rights and reproductive freedom.
I fear we’re headed toward a dark future. Why the SC “justices” think they’ll be spared is puzzling.
They are rich sociopaths. If you have money and zero empathy for your fellow humans, your future can’t really get dark.
Exactly.
Imagine thinking we don’t live in a plutocracy… I hate our public brainwashing “education.” We indoctrinate kids into thinking America The Great is a thing, or For the People. Yeah… It’s For the
richPeople…(Not that I want private schools. I just want public education to be about reality, not an indoctrination into brainwashed subservient society)
It can get very, very dark for them. Ask Mike Pence.
Maybe but nothing will happen to them and you’ll suffer as a result. You won’t be spared… That’s the reality.