Jamie Raskin Goes Scorched Earth on SCOTUS Trump Immunity Case

https://newrepublic.com/post/181041/jamie-raskin-supreme-court-trump-immunity

32 comments

  1. The only ones going scorched earth are the unelected, uncountable fascist supreme court hacks

  2. Mr. Jamie Raskin is a treasure. Protect him always.

  3. Good rant Jamie, SCOTUS is rat fucking for sure. I don’t get the selling flowers and incense thing at the end…🤔

  4. I hope Raskin runs for president at some point. I would definitely vote for him.

  5. Kinda ridiculous how every court along the way can rule that this shit is insane, and then the Supreme court can just be like nah screw you guys. Shit like this should be a 2/3rd majority of every court that’s ruled on it

  6. So what would it take to change things, honestly. Would a majority in the House, Senate, and a Democratic President be able to do something?

  7. Okay, so if SCOTUS rules President is above the law in June or July, does that free Presidential Biden to do whatever he wants to? I mean he is the current president.

  8. We’re gonna need every single voter and volunteer to win the election in November and undo the insanity of this SCOTUS. We all need to get involved ASAP to affect this election.

    Join r/votedem. They have loads of information on how to help defeat the batshit crazy Republicans at all levels. Get involved with phonebanking, textbanking, donate, knock on doors, register to vote, get your friends to register. We need every single vote and volunteer come November

  9. And nothing will come out of it. Nothing will change. I like him, but all this fist shaking does nothing in the long run.

  11. >I mean, for all of American history, we have said presidents are subject to criminal prosecution if they commit crimes. That’s why Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. That’s why Bill Clinton agreed to give up his law license with the bar for five years so he wouldn’t face criminal prosecution.

    I understand and agree with what Raskin is saying but can’t help but notice the deeply saddening irony of this statement. We know presidents have been subject to prosecution throughout American history because we have to keep making exceptions so that they aren’t.

  12. We need to flood the media.. newsrooms/papers, call every news affiliate and voice our concerns… STOP candy coating the importance of this ruling and this traitor and STAND for justice and democracy… screw these jealots of the rich owners of these media moguls… if they side with scotus, that a president call kill an opponent, then he can kill you for bad publicity on him… now we’re in straight authoritarian/dictatorship

  13. Biden should openly target one of the justices. Not do anything just set it up so he can. Then ask, should I be convicted if you are assassinated.

  14. So what’s preventing Biden from ordering Trump arrested (or worse) without fear of repercussions?

  15. If the court votes in favor of Trump. Biden should immediately put hits out on Trump and every Justice that voted in favor of this insanity.

  16. If Biden wins and the Dems get back the majority in the house and senate, I hope he packs the court.

  17. He should.

    SCOTUS ~~conservative~~ MAGA justices Gorsuch, Alito, and Kavanaugh (and we are going to assume Thomas here too but he was silent) were ignoring the actual case (on what they are suppose to actually decide) and trying to craft “writing a rule for the ages”. They didn’t want to be bothered with the actual facts or any law or any of that troublesome constitution they often like to embrace when it suits them.

    There is a reason why every other court ruled resoundingly against Trump. They actually answered what was being asked of them. Something Judge Jackson pointed out – just answer the fucking question in front of them:

    > Jackson: And so my question is why isn’t it enough for the purposes of this case, given what the Petitioner has argued, to just answer the question of whether all official acts get immunity?

    > MR. DREEBEN: That — that is enough. And if the Court answers that question the way that the government has submitted, that resolves the case.

    But they won’t. Because they are not Justices and impartial. They are MAGA political creatures and want to give Trump the delay he needs.

  18. Would be nice if democrats would vow to stack the courts after this and invalidate these absurd rulings. Don’t see it happening, however.

  19. Don’t get me wrong, I love that he is speaking out and I genuinely hope more politicians on both sides do but until there are changes that reign in the Supreme Court, this makes no difference.

  22. Fake court, corrupted court, Supremely Compromised Court!!!

  23. Good. We should be making this corrupt SCOTUS feel the heat. They shouldn’t be allowed to rule like they are without some uproar.

  24. If targeting political enemies is fair game for a president, I can think of a few seats on the Supreme Court worth vacating ASAP.

  25. **The New Republic**

    *“The most astonishing thing for me today was Justice Alito’s question. He actually asked whether holding the president criminally accountable for actual crimes committed, whether murder or coup or you name it, whether holding them accountable would actually encourage them to stage more violent coups to stay in office to avoid prosecution,” Raskin told MSNBC later Thursday.*

    *“Which buys completely into Donald Trump’s narcissistic criminal worldview. I mean, for all of American history, we have said presidents are subject to criminal prosecution if they commit crimes. That’s why Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. That’s why Bill Clinton agreed to give up his law license with the bar for five years so he wouldn’t face criminal prosecution.”*

    ^Ellie ^Quinlan ^Houghtaling

  26. Pro Tip – he’s smarter than all these fuckers combined

  29. The framers of the constitution could descend from the heavens, tell the Supreme Court exactly what they intended in this situation, and they would probably still not all agree that Trump should be prosecuted.

  30. I listened to the whole hearing and some of them clearly thought they were gods. They seemed to have no interest in the details of the specific case in front of them and I wasn’t sure they had read the Appeals court ruling. They just wanted to proclaim whatever mad thought was in their heads.

  31. Will this finally be the decision that makes the liberal justices admit that the court no longer has any legitimacy whatsoever?

    Because it’s really obvious to not just normal people but even lawyers and judges around the entire **world** that the US supreme court no longer has any legitimacy whatsoever.

  32. They are going to do whatever they can in Trump’s favor because there are three Conservative justices who really don’t want to die on the bench and want to be replaced by younger partisan hacks.

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