Donald Trump may have handpicked three members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority. That doesn’t mean they are doing him any favors.

Former President Donald Trump has tried every legal trick in the book to postpone his four upcoming criminal trials past election day.

But his master plan just ran into a big problem.

That’s because the Supreme Court showed it’s willing to move at lightning speed this week, when it agreed to fast-track an urgent request from Special Counsel Jack Smith about an issue that risks jamming up the legal works. In a system that can sometimes take years to reach resolution, the high court just got back to Smith in less than one day.

In other words, the Supreme Court just showed it understands the urgency of the situation. While this week’s action was only an early indicator and hardly a final decision on the merits of the pending appeal related to Trump’s Jan. 6 case, the court reacted with the kind of warp speed that suggests Trump’s attempt to bog things down could be doomed.

  • gsfraley@lemmy.world
    29·
    1 year ago

    The work is moreso on the inverse, making sure it’s not unjust. No matter how you slice it, someone’s going to take issue on the outcome of each ruling.

    What IS easy to quantify is the sheer number of legal scholars and domain experts sounding the alarm that many rulings are inconsistent with previously established law (and in many cases having profound negative consequences on the stability of our society), and that there are frequent conflicts of interest on a huge number of cases (cough cough Thomas).

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      19·
      1 year ago

      And Roberts, he seems to be not mentioned as much, but he’s just as corrupt.

      • Jane Roberts was paid more than $10 million by a host of elite law firms, a whistleblower alleges.
      • At least one of those firms argued a case before Chief Justice Roberts after paying his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars.
      • Details of Jane Roberts’ work come as Congress struggles to reform the Court’s self-policed ethics.

      A nepo bribe taker, a straight up bribe taker, a rapist and a Christian extremest walk into a bar. The bartender says, “You can’t do your dirty business here SCOTUS.”