We’re still without a decision in Trump v. United States 25 days after Supreme Court in the case, which involves Donald Trump’s claim to absolute immunity for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Twenty-five is the number of days it took the high court to decide Trump v.
Anderson after oral argument. That’s the March decision in which the court the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that would have taken Trump off the ballot as an insurrectionist. You don’t need to be a constitutional scholar to know what’s going on.
Or to appreciate that at stake in the 2024 election is the rule of law and our freedoms as we decide whether to restore a former president who will resume appointing radically partisan judges willing to take away our rights. In fact, you needn’t have studied law at all to understand the that’s behind this court slow-walking a simple, obvious ruling here. At the oral argument, the conservative justices seemed to be trying to convince us that the case couldn’t be decided quickly because of the complexities surrounding hypothetical situations that could arise around presidential immunity in the future.
Nonsense. Conservative obligate federal judges to rule on the specific “ ” in front of them. Instead, at the hearing, rightwing justices like Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch focused on things that might possibly happen.
Gorsuch pontificated about the court “writing a .” That seems to be their excuse for taking their sweet time completing this .