"This is B.S.—you were doing this as a dilatory tactic to help your political friend," says Rachel Maddow on the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Trump immunity argument, delaying his coup trial. "And for you to say that this is something that the Court needs to decide because it's something that's unclear in the law is just flagrant, flagrant bullpucky."

“This is B.S.—you were doing this as a dilatory tactic to help your political friend,” says Rachel Maddow on the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Trump immunity argument, delaying his coup trial. “And for you to say that this is something that the Court needs to decide because it’s something that’s unclear in the law is just flagrant, flagrant bullpucky.”

  • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Actually I think there’s a substantial chance that the court will allow immunity for only official acts. That’s really the only question before them, because the trial judge didn’t rule on whether or not these were official acts, only that there’s no immunity whatsoever.

    If they do it’ll get kicked back down to the district court where the judge will quite obviously say these were not official acts. Then that will be appealed. It’ll go nowhere but will waste time. Unless SCOTUS rules immediately after the oral arguments it’ll be pushed past the election for sure. It likely will anyway tbh.