No. of Recommendations: 15
When the Supreme Court agreed to hear this appear regarding IMMUNITY, they granted a stay on ANY preparation work for the trail.
The "rationale" behind this is that when a defendant is arguing immunity, if the immunity argument is held up, they should have never been subjected to the prosecution in the first place so to make them incur the cost and angst of continuing to defend themselves against a charge for which they claim to have immunity is a further violation of their rights.
Any court hearing an appeal based on immunity has a CHOICE to grant a stay for ongoing activity in the trial or deny a stay allowing trial activities to continue while they ajudicate the immunity appeal. This Supreme Court
* refused the initial appeal skipping directly to them to get a quick answer
* required an appellate court to spend multiple weeks accepting briefs and hearing arguments and making a decision
* then accept the appeal of the appellate court decision which HELD the trial court decision
* then has now agreed to TAKE the case
* and has scheduled the case TWO MONTHS off into the future
* and has not indicated if they will rule in a week or wait until the end of the term in June
Judge Chutkin has previously outlined a calendar of something like 80 days to provide the Trump team time to prep its arguments. That sets an expectation for a minimum interval for remaining prep work, all of which has now been on hold since the appeals court motion was filed.
If the Supreme Court wanted to keep this case on any reasonable timeline,
* they could have heard the original appeal filed by Jack Smith directly to the Supreme Court
* they could have scheduled THIS case in the same time interval they used in accepting the Colorado case
* this issue has been brief TWICE, one to the trial court, once to the appeals court
* no new arguments are involved, the Supreme Court could have scheduled this to be heard in one week
So what's different? The Supreme Court hustled on the Colorado case because NOT getting involved or setting relaxed timelines for their involvement was directly HURTING Trump by keeping him off the Colorado primary ballot (and eventually, presumably, the general election ballot). In this case, accepting the case but putting it on the molasses schedule HELPS Trump by making it more likely he could become re-elected before a jury returns a verdict on his various crimes. At that point, the odds of him being able to take office before the rest of the process could put him in jail are much higher.
John Roberts is completely morally bankrupt, as is a majority of the judges on the Supreme Court.
WTH
