Speaker Mike Johnson urges Supreme Court to “step in” on Trump verdict

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/31/mike-johnson-trump-supreme-court

28 comments

  1. Talk about government overreach   

    We shouldn’t merely recuse Trump appointed judges from the jan6 case, they should be impeached, along with Johnson, and disbarred

  3. And how exactly do you propose they do that, Mike?  Is Alito going to hold a press conference and announce that they have ultimate power and are declaring Trump innocent?

  4. But also “states rights”. These fucking hypocrite assholes.

  5. Their only concern is saving face. They know trump is guilty, but they have to keep making their party look good

  6. We are experiencing a severe sickness in this country and it’s all spreading outward from the ghouls in the GOP.

  7. Fuck Mike Johnson to Hell. A lawful jury of peers, who ought to be respected and thanked for doing their civic service with diligence, looked at the evidence and weighed in unanimously with a verdict under the same rules and laws we are all held to. Donald Trump committed criminal fraud and was found guilty. This is a matter of fact.

    This party is absolutely sick. No ideas, just a fucking cult that seeks to break the rules for themselves and their own. There’s nothing for the Supreme Court to “step in” on; their party’s nominee is a criminal by his own doing and they’re just so lost in his bullshit that they want to break our systems to make him an unaccountable god.

  8. Is this the Mike Johnson who roped his minor son into receiving 24/7 alerts with links to Mike’s favorite porn… and had his minor daughter sign a sexual contract?

    Or is this a different Mike Johnson?

  9. Today’s Speaker of the House does not believe in the rule of law. As bad as that is, it’s worse. Mike Johnson, said Speaker of the House, does not know what the rule of law means.

  10. Pretty sure no federal branch can overrule state-level convictions lol.

  11. I guess Republicans are done pretending these corrupt justices are anything more than political operatives

  12. I love how Conservatives are willing to listen to people like Dinesh D’Souza, Michael Flynn, and Steve Bannon like they are completely unbiased sources just telling it like it is, but anyone who’s against Trump is too conflicted to be reliable.

    Rules for thee, not for me.

    “**Zoom out:** Trump’s allies are already plotting revenge, with one prospective Trump attorney general candidate telling Axios’ Zach Basu and Sophia Cai that GOP prosecutors should go after Democrats in response.”

    If you can find evidence they committed crimes, then yes, by all means. An elected office doesn’t make you above the law, as Trump is finding out.

  13. >House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called for the U.S. Supreme Court to “step in” to overturn the guilty verdict against former President Trump in his New York hush money trial.

    Just like that, huh, Mike? Just step in and declare him not guilty even though he was found guilty using the processes that we have used for hundreds of years to determine the guilt or innocence of people? Did those 12 people just lose weeks of their lives for nothing because you can’t accept the facts? What about the people who sat on the grand jury, the prosecutors, the judges – everyone who did what they were supposed to do and followed the law.

  15. Also, Eric Trump is threatening to hold his breath until the judge changes the verdict and also lets him have a Capri-Sun.

  16. Trump ran on “lock her up”. So they can all go to hell. Not to say that Biden had a shred to do with Trump’s adjudication as an overt criminal piece of shit.

  17. Republicans have got to be destroyed at the ballot box on levels of FDRs elections during WW2 if this country is ever hoping to survive.

  19. So Speaker Johnson offers up no actual legal reason for the Supreme Court to step in and reverse a state court finding. Simply saying something is “unprecedented” is not a compelling argument. Trump was found guilty by a jury of his peers. The American justice system operated as designed. The only unprecedented part was a former President committing egregious illegal conduct. The judge did not act in a partisan manner.

    The Republican Party is not a serious political party rooted in reality

  20. Vote BLUE down the line so we can move on from all this nonsense.

  21. States rights… except when it’s hurting our god-king.

    Seems like republicans only respect the rule of law when it means they get to hurt the poor and crush dissent. Anytime one of them might face actual repercussions for breaking the law, they cry to the supreme court to protect them.

    *I’m so sick of these bootlickers pretending to be populists.* Just be straight and clear about your desire for monarchy. Stop pretending it’s about freedom and admit you want an all-powerful ruler to hurt anyone you hate, and it doesn’t matter what laws must be broken to get there.

  22. What does he expect the Supreme Court to do to “step in?” Legalize financial and campaign fraud?

  23. Fracking hell, Republicans. Can you please vote for people who have a fucking clue at all. SCOTUS doesn’t go looking for cases. They get a writ of certiorari after all state level appeals have been used up and then they MAY take up the case if they view there is a constitutional argument that needs reviewed.

    Your fondness for screeching idiots is embarrassing as hell and Moral Oral here clearly is ignorant to constitutional law (or law at all) or is another disingenuous dork that does nothing except generate social media headlines.

  24. Yet again Republicans are trying to overturn the will of the people.

    They have nothing but contempt for the Constitution and the law.

  25. *“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”*

    Mike Johnson lied in front of his God.

  26. If the Supreme Court steps in now then we’ve already lost the American democracy. These judges can’t keep saving the candidate that either appointed them or they are CLEARLY campaigning for and expect us to sit back and keep taking it…

  27. “They should go after democrats in response “

    Yes! Go after democrats if you have evidence of criminal activity. Well we’re waiting !

  28. Yeah, because 12 jurors, whittled down from 200, with trumps lawyer also getting picks, was orchestrated by Biden. These ppl have brain worms.

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