“Intentional”: Harvard legal scholar says SCOTUS “deliberately delayed” Trump immunity ruling

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1. I don’t have a Harvard degree and I could have told you that months ago.

2. This wouldn’t be happening if we voted blue no matter who and elected Hillary Clinton in 2016 with a blue senate. The 5-4 liberal scotus wouldn’t do this.

3. Like SCOTUS has something more urgent and important to rule on than fundamental rule of law and democracy.

4. They have a vested interest. If they say a President has immunity and Biden wins, that would be bad for them. If they say no and Trump wins, that would also be bad for them. Either way, fuck all of the conservative judges, because the sensible ones would vote no, regardless.

5. Well, they sure didn’t do it by accident.

6. When does this level of corruption become treasonous? At the very least we must begin holding those buying our judges accountable.

7. This should’ve been a pretty open and shut case for the so-called originalists – there is no mention, explicit or implicit, of presidential immunity anywhere in the Constitution.

8. Duh.

   Next thing you’ll tell me is that Roger Stone is a coke head.

   Oh and the ruling will be limited immunity forcing the case back down to the lower courts to see what he is or is not immune from.

9. It’s beyond disgusting that someone can try to overturn an election he lost and illegally hold onto power, yet holding him accountable is taking so long that he might actually win the next election and have the same position of power he tried to steal. Something is deeply, deeply wrong with our country.

10. Hold on while I take this Vitamin DUH!

11. You’ll know when they’re going to rule on it when the fence goes up and armed guards are patrolling it.

    And then they’ll say Trump is immune.

    What are you or anyone else gonna do about it? Yea. That’s what the fence and the guns are for.

12. If they rule next week, Chutkin could have Trump sitting in he courtroom the week of the Republican convention. Lol.

13. And water is wet. They are slow walking us into a civil war

14. They can’t rule and say a president has immunity while Biden is in office.

    They also can’t rule and say a president doesn’t have blanket immunity while Trump has ongoing legal battles.

15. Still taking bids

16. This is only the beginning. Once they decide, they’ll decide to remand. It won’t make sense, but it will delay the proceedings even more. Then after the judges come to the same conclusion as before, it will go back to SCOTUS who then will take even more time to decide. If Trump is president, they’ll rule that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted. If Trump is not president, then they will decide that he does not have the immunity. BUT SCOTUS will do it’s utmost best to try to make Trump president. If you don’t want this, donate big time to the Democrats, go out and vote and convince everyone you know to also vote.

17. Next up: a study from Yale proving the sky is blue

18. Let’s not kid ourselves, they are slow walking this so that they can find an excuse as to rule that “in this specific instance” he is immune, but “in all other instances” the president has no immunity.

19. Yeah, no shit

20. At the very least, can we make bribes taxable? It seems like business as usual. Might as well tax it and move on….

21. This SC court is obviously corrupt.

22. “You screwed the pooch in 2016, America. We don’t care. Deal with it.” –Conservative SCOTUS

23. They need time to write how Trump is somehow immune from the crimes he committed while President, but if a democrat does the same thing while in office they won’t be immune.

24. Of course they are.

    That wouldn’t take the case early as asked in Dec 2023, they put it on the last day of the term for hearing cases (+2 months after agreeing to hear it in February 2024), and they aren’t going to issue the ruling until the last day (June 30th+) so they can be out of town when the shit hits the fan.

    MAGA justices are just doing this for delay.

    None of the actions in the indictment fall into Trump’s official duties. This is why Gorsuch and Alito didn’t want to actually hear about the facts of the case. As Gorsuch said – he wants to make a “Ruling for the Ages” or as Alito said ” I’m not discussing the particular facts of this case” in the oral arguments

25. Yes, some of us knew they would do that two months ago, like we knew Trump would be the candidate two years ago. The institution is corrupt, compromised and weak as piss. Maybe we should go hit Harvard up.

    They aren’t calling it until after the election when they hand Trump the presidency. They might even make the ruling the day after, which will be that he’s immune, just to piss people off.

26. Can only say “no shit, sherlock” so many times….

27. Disqualifying and undemocratic. Those seem to be the definition qualifications of the Court these days.

28. 80 million people of us didn’t need a Harvard professor to let us know that the scotus deliberately delaying this decision to push the trial post election

29. Absolutely maga corrupted