SCOTUS tells Jack Smith to go pound sand
And although the justices don’t explain themselves, this is the situation:
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan paused almost all proceedings concerning former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in D.C. as the courts above her decide on his claim that he has presidential immunity.
Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to expedite a review of Trump’s claims of presidential immunity.
The expedited review was denied by SCOTUS, which means the whole thing will proceed more slowly and a trial may not be completed before the election. Smith was determined that it start on March 4 – the day before Super Tuesday, what a coinkidink. But that won’t be happening.
Nevertheless, holding the trial over Trump’s head may be just as good, as far as the Democrats are concerned, as concluding it. Then again, they are somewhat distracted at the moment trying to figure out if there’s a way to give The Man Who Came to Dinner, Joe Biden, the hook for 2024.
Javert, er, ah, Jack S. is foiled again.
So at least for a time the question of whether Jack Smith is a legally appointed Special Counsel won’t be addressed. Arguments that he is not were made to the Supreme Court in this case. They side-stepped and refused cert. The argument will come again if the case survives.
It would be fun to see Louisiana Sen. Kennedy grilling Merrick Garland on the question of Jack Smith’s appointment.
were they, I thought that was a separate issue,
there is a heisenberg’s cat quality to this, initially it was the appeals court that controlled the counsel, then the law was voided, then it suddenly came up when dems needed to prosecute scooter libby, then it was void under obama, then it’s a bumper crop under trump
Tyrus the former wrestler and school teacher on Gutfeld says this sham is designed to prevent any debate, do you debate an insurrectionist dictator, and even the Court’s action when they come around it, can be weaponized because they have been steadily demonizing the Court,
I remember before Reid’s filibuster they were demonizing the Senate, because it allowed the smaller states, balance to the larger states, why they object to the Electoral College,
miguel, Meese and two others filed a friend of the court brief in the case:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/special-counsel-in-trump-case-unconstitutional-former-reagan-ag-says/ar-AA1lRfWr
Yes, I’m old enough to remember when they sent two special prosecutors after him, because it was the seriousness of the crime, they came up with bupkis, but they sidelined him as much as they did with gonzalez or sessions,
they also sent one after mama gorsuch, and james watt.
The guy Jack Smith brings to my mind is Inspector Clouseau. So easy to belittle as a buffoon, yet he may unpredictably win in the end.
“Does your dog bite?”
no hes a pirate (imagine him with an eye patch and a cutlass) Edward Teach or William Kidd,
now the office of public integrity, he worked for included noah bookbinder, he’s the one that wrangled the Colorado tetrach,
See Andy McCarthy at NRO. He thinks that this will actually allow Smith to resolve the immunity issue faster because the DC Circuit will move quickly and then the SC will decline cert again and make Trump wait until after trial to appeal his immunity claim.
On the merits, I would be very surprised if the SC bailed Trump out on immunity. I suspect they will on the “obstructing a government proceeding” charge, but that won’t be until June.
McCarthy also thinks that the trial judge will have to delay the trial until the SC decision on the obstruction case comes out in June.
Imagine if these judges and prosecutors actually went after real criminals, not made up garbage that is more thread bare then alpine lace cheese, but that would rely on real evidence, not innuendo passed through a cheese grater,
Concerned Conservative hasn’t noticed that Andy McCarthy doesn’t have much cred any more.
we know judge chutkins record of criminal malfeasance, protecting the looters of nigeria, the pakistani hackers, abetting the fusion fraudsters, why does one think you would get a hearing in her court, as for the Appeals bench, they are crooked as the day is long,
https://www.emerald.tv/p/christmas-countdown-4-days-of-georgia?r=2d06&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I look at the big picture and i see Xi taunting us with taking Taiwan, I see a reserve Army that has been smuggled into the country, I see the Red Sea, declared no trespass zone, then we see the horrors in the levant with more to come, and yet these poisonous gnats flitter about,
Robert Gouviea covers the Team Trump objections to SC Jack Smith’s cert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJl2ZNmty0&t=1190s
Cert normally requires a pressing pad interest for addressing, which is standard rarely met. Jack Smith asserts “public interest,” as well as the severity of prosecutors charges.
Answering this TT says Smith is vague. He raises no compelling interest which confuses public interest with partisan interests, they say.
Furthermore, Trump attorneys relate much of what oughta be obvious.
Reason’s for dismissal. Namely, Presidential immunity for acts executing the position or office.Secondly, they raise the double jeopardy inherent in the fact that Trump faced impeachment, but was not convicted,. Both must be true in order for the former President to be prosecuted, according to the impeachment clause of the Constitution, as well as Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers.
Many if not all Presidents have been charged guilty of crimes by their opposition, back to Adams and Jefferson. And if any prosecutors can charge the President with crimes in office — apart from criminal issues — then the President will be hamstrung by any aggrieved prosecutor, defeating the point of the Office of President in the Constitution it’s very purpose.
This reading will make you feel smarter in siding with Trump. Because you will be.
I presume that SCOTUS (or their Law Clerks) read this brief and enough were persuaded by it the deny Smith certiorari. Unsigned. Late on Friday.
Sundowner can be tossed any day they want him to be gone, he still is fulfilling the Deep State Puppeteers roll for him. He will not run in 2024, Harris either, no one likes her.
Concerned Conservative hasn’t noticed that Andy McCarthy doesn’t have much cred any more.
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I think if you did an inventory of his columns over the last eight years, you’d discover that McCarthy figures out what’s up about 22 months after the median time other observers do.
Victor Davis Hansen wrote an article on this.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/21/will-partisan-lawfare-destroy-trump/
mccarthy has been wrong almost without fail for 20 years, from the plame scam,
because his colleagues at the sdny would never lie, no they almost always do
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-process-is-the-punishment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=140031045&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1ibkm2&utm_medium=email
“Alpine lace cheese”???
thread bare, and flavorless, much like much commentary, offered on the broad sheets,
what we end up with
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1738430782291468598
om translated:
I don’t like what Andy McCarthy is saying.
no we just know he’s the slowest to catch on since tippy turtle,
as you see in my last link there are real life consequences to this shamarama,
the conversion of the Arabian sea into a state of nature for one, this iteration of the Qatari proxy war in Gaza for another,
Astute analysis TJ.
Merry Christmas all Neo fans!
Erronius
Concerned Conservative translation regarding Andy McCarthy’s credibility:
I’ve been burned by Andy McCarthy too many times in the last 10 years.
It seems Concerned Conservative hasn’t been singed at all.