"The D.C. Circuit Court's decision, Raskin said, was "completely exhaustive and totally compelling," and Trump's claims that a president could commit crimes with impunity while in office is "utterly antithetical to everything that we know about our Constitution."
"We don't have a king here, we had a revolution against a king and the Constitution is written so that [the] president's main job is to take care [that] the laws are faithfully executed, not faithfully violated in his own interest," Raskin said."
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"If they really wanted to pronounce on his complete banality, this totally obvious point, they could've taken it up in December and sent it back a day or two later. ...
They're going to hear it on April 22, I hope we get a decision by April 23 or 24, because as we saw in Bush vs. Gore, they can move at Josh Hawley-type speeds when they want to get something done," Raskin said in reference to the ruling that settled the 2000 presidential election and seemingly the speed with which Hawley darted through the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Raskin also claimed that political motivations may be guiding the justices on the Supreme Court, three of whom were appointed by Trump.
"Do you look at this court and say some of these justices want to delay these trials?," Psaki asked.
"Well, yeah. If you don't believe that you're too innocent to be let out of the house by yourself at this point," Raskin said.
"This is a court driven by both Trump nominees and Bush nominees, and neither of those guys was elected with the popular vote, so we've got a Supreme Court that is representing the choices of minority presidents and they have been driving very hard to overturn a whole series of precedents that America has come to take for granted, like Roe v. Wade," Raskin added."
