#Politics #Maddow just called today's #SCOTUS #Trump action "bullpucky." She's upset, and so is Chris Hayes.
Lawrence O'Donnell isn't all that upset. He points out that SCOTUS agreed to hear only one issue, tossing all the other claims in Trump's appeal. He also notes that they declined to send it back to the appellate court which would have delayed the matter further.
Lawrence thinks there's zero chance SCOTUS finds a former president has immunity. I disagree.
@WordsmithFL maybe they want a chance to whip his ass too?
SCOTUS can only be viewed as partisan politicians now. Any consideration as legal constitutional scholars is completely gone now.
@WordsmithFL Just speculating here, but they may have decided and are making time for some of the justices to write the dissenting opinions.
@lifeinthePNW I dunno, when Rachel Maddow calls a "bullpucky" it's an extra-special outrage. 🤔
I assume that Alito and Thomas are a lost cause. It only takes three more justices to give #Trump his get-out-of-jail-free card. These are the justices who reversed Rowe and have made it clear that precedent means nothing to them. I think that's why everyone, quite rightly, is scared.
@WordsmithFL @lifeinthePNW Pretty sure Kavanagh and Gorsuch are writeoffs too. #politics #SCOTUS
#Politics Watching #MSNBC 's legal eagles, they seem to be in a bit of a panic about this. They seem to think that the #SCOTUS #MAGA majority are going to grant #Trump extraordinary powers of legal immunity as a former president.
If so .. I'll just point out that those powers will have been granted to #Biden too.
They also speculated that #SCOTUS could hold their ruling until they recess in late June, essentially assuring that no criminal trial can begin in time to affect the election.