The Supreme Courtās decision to hear Donald Trumpās claim that he should be shielded from criminal prosecution keeps the justices at the center of election-year controversy for several more months and means any verdict on Trumpās alleged subversion of the 2020 vote will not come before summer.
The countryās highest court wants the final word on the former presidentās assertion of immunity, even if it may ultimately affirm a comprehensive ruling of the lower federal court that rejected Trumpās sweeping claim.
For Trump, Wednesdayās order amounts to another win from the justice system he routinely attacks. The justicesā intervention in the case, Trump v. United States, also marks another milestone in the fraught relationship between the court and the former president.
Cases related to his policies and his personal dealings consistently roiled the justices behind the scenes. At the same time, Trump, who appointed three of the nine justices, significantly influenced the courtās lurch to the right, most notably its 2022 reversal of nearly a half century of abortion rights and reproductive freedom.
No, the Supreme Court is not āhelpingā Donald Trump. This is just a rage-bait news piece, and the people who swallow the intimation that the Court is taking the case in order to get Donald Trump elected are falling for it. The Supreme Court isnāt playing kingmaker. They are doing their job.
How exactly do you know the motives of the extreme conservative Justices, half of whom were appointed by Trump? Are you a mind reader?
Your comment is the real rage bait.
Thatās my point.
We donāt know what the motives are of the Supreme Court. Yet because people who want to see Trump removed from the ballot didnāt get the decision they want to see fast enough, theyāre inventing conspiracy theories of the Supreme Court manipulating things to benefit Trump, and the media is playing right along, saying theyāre āhelpingā him. Itās precisely this kind of behavior that makes me despise the far right. (Well, not just this behavior, but still.)
I donāt want to see Donald Trump anywhere near the oval office ever again. But I do want to see a decision from the Supreme Court on this specific question, because I want to forever silence the people who have been trying to create a āunitary executiveā in the United States.
Theyāre helping Trump if they slow walk this urgent case. If theyāre speedy, as justice must be, then, and only then, are they doing their jobs.
And they are being unusually speedy. The article even says as much.