Supreme Court poised to rule in Trump presidential immunity case on Monday

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1. …if the executive branch is immune, I guess they can round up the justices of the supreme court and make vacancies.

2. A carve out of immunity for Trumps J6 actions.

3. I’m assuming this rules out the worst case scenario i.e declaring Trump immune from prosecution if he manages to win the race.

4. They will of course confirm that he is not immune, but the damage has been done now. Well done, Trump has somehow managed to dodge any meaningful convictions before the election. All we have is the stupid porn star stuff…

5. Dear double haters,

   Most of you will outlive Trump and Biden. But will you outlive their SCOTUS appointments?

6. So they’ve saved the biggest turd for last. They do love the attention and power. No wonder they drop all their “work” on the last day they are on the job.

7. Something tells me they dont need him now. With the overturning of Chevron, and the complete consolidation of power to the SC, they can slit this assholes throat and continue to just change the course of power and history through hearing ridiculous cases and setting new precedents.

8. If you are wondering what they will do, just think of who is showering SCOTUS with lavish gifts and trips to get their way… what would the billionaires want the ruling to be?

9. crunch wrap supreme crap

10. Hope everyone has their pitchforks sharpened and ready.

11. Sure, sure like they plan on doing anything but taking brides and destroying democracy.

12. I used to tell my students that all empires fall. I didn’t think I would see the American Empire fall in real time.

13. He’s gonna walk because this is the bad universe where the bad guys win.

14. A 6-3 ruling, with a narrow scope, somewhere along the lines of “in this one instance, A president would be immune from criminal charges.” is what I’m expecting from a conservative majority that has been brought & paid for by dark money.

15. “First, we’ll make sure to rule that it’s legal to bribe us, *then* we’ll handle the billionaires case.”

16. The one thing that this supreme court has really hammered home is that there are no ‘rules for the ages.’ Everything is up for reinterpretation any given year.

17. Monday is Canada Day (their independence day) — perfect day for the court to make us all wish we were Canadian.

18. I have little doubt they will send it back down for the circuit court to clarify which acts by the executive are included or not.

    It will delay any decision, helping Trump again.

    Just as an aside, the cases this court chooses to decide quickly and which to simply delay is blatantly partisan.

19. Biden will have literally no choice but to take advantage of this to prevent the next president from securing absolute power.

20. One: this shouldn’t have even been something taken up by the Supreme Court and two: the answer is NO. Presidents do not have absolute immunity. There, case closed.

21. …and it’s going to be a fucking disaster.

    It’s actually hard to believe that this court could be as devastating as it has been.

22. So the SC just made bribery legal, made it harder to prosecute 1/6 perps, and gutted the EPA even more.

    How much you want to bet that they did this so that they can somehow give Trump immunity? It won’t ‘seem’ so horrifying after the abuses that they have already placed on our present and future.

    I hope that 20 minutes after Trump gets immunity, Biden sends the FBI to arrest the Republican Supreme Court Justices

23. Strategically, I think that they will rule he is not immune. They’ve already delayed it enough for it not to affect the election.
    Ruling that he is immune will create enough public outrage that it would serve to crank up the numbers on the left. If he loses the election, I’m thinking they really don’t care what happens to him.

24. I like how they waited for the last day for this one, on a case where the lower court ruled unanimously. Really shows their concern for delaying a criminal trial unnecessarily.

25. They’ll say “trump, and only trump, is immune.”

26. This case should not have taken over 100 days to come about

27. Should the Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump, then that very day, within minutes of the ruling, Dark Brandon should go live on National television and issue an executive order stating that the military must go and arrest all Maga Trump Supporting Republicans from the Congress, Senate, and the Supreme Court, and place them all in prison for Federal Crimes, and this also includes Trump himself. After all, he would have Presidential immunity.

    You know damn well any Maga Trump supporting Republicans would do it.

    So the Supreme Court best be careful on this ruling!

28. If they rule in Trump’s favor, the entire country loses and the “justices” should be impeached.

29. Hopefully everyone is about to realize that Biden being old is the least of our worries.

30. I can’t wait until the next debate if presidential immunity is confirmed. Dark Brandon will pull out revolver and two to the chest, one to the head.
    I win.

31. Give it to him and watch Biden moonwalk to a second term.

32. Joining the chorus that predicts they will make a ruling that somehow makes the President immune, but only if the President is Trump and the rule takes effect January 21st 2025.

    Otherwise they kick it around for 4 more years until lather, rinse, repeat.

33. Waiting to hear “Presidents don’t have immunity going forward, but because there was confusion, they cannot be prosecuted for crimes already committed prior to this ruling”

34. “…Their questioning largely focused on what presidential acts would be protected and which would not…”

    Conspiring and making material efforts to overturn a lawful election isn’t in the Executive playbook

    And yet…we are not confident that the 6 conservatives on the Supreme Court won’t try to make it so– but only in a way that benefits Trump.

35. I hope Biden immediately sends them all to guantanamo bay for this fuckery.

36. It’s going to be a two part ruling he will be immune if his actions are in execution of his job as President,, and not if those actions are not related Presidential duties.

    They lower courts will have to take TIME AND EFFORT to determine what action are Presidential and immune and what acts are not…..

    and then Trump can still appeal those courts decision…

37. Oh boy! Can’t wait for this totally neutral, unbiased, fair, impartial and not at all politically tainted decision to come down on Monday! I’m sure this won’t be another egregious, self-serving abuse of the judicial process by a hyperpartisan court, and that we’ll get a completely even-handed decision reflecting only a dry application of facts to the law, and nothing more!

38. trust me, they will GIVE HIM SOMETHING

39. bUt hEr EmAiLs!!!

    This country totally blew it 8 years ago and now we’re living with this corrupted right wing majority.

    And millions of Americans are poised to do it yet again this year, cuz Biden old.

    Honestly if Trump wins this November (still not convinced he will) this country deserves every single iota of Hell that rains down on us.

    Sadly the rest of the world will likewise have to deal the the consequences of our immense idiocy.

40. It’s all bullshit. If Presidential Immunity was a thing, Nixon would have done it 50 years ago, he would have never needed a pardon, and Ford wouldn’t have been President.

41. I have to wonder what kind of gratuity the court will receive Monday.