I object your honor. This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of two mockeries of a sham. I move for a mistrial.

The very least it this will do is push the start of the trial into next year.

Most likely it will mean that anything a Pres does is an Official Action.

Like shooting someone dead and their Base not caring.

I would advise Dark Brandon to immediately put Trump before a Military Firing Squad for a violent Coup Attempt.

"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a separate dissent that the majority's ruling "breaks new and dangerous ground" by granting immunity "only to the most powerful official in our Government."

She said that her conservative colleagues were "discarding" the nation's long-held principle that no one is above the law.

"That core principle has long prevented our Nation from devolving into despotism," she said.

"Yet the Court now opts to let down the guardrails of the law for one extremely powerful category of citizen: any future President who has the will to flout Congress's established boundaries."

The liberal justice described the impact of the court's ruling in dark terms, saying that "even a hypothetical President who admits to having ordered the assassinations of his political rivals or critics or one who indisputably instigates an unsuccessful coup, has a fair shot at getting immunity under the majority's new Presidential accountability model."

"In the end, then, under the majority's new paradigm, whether the President will be exempt from legal liability for murder, assault, theft, fraud, or any other reprehensible and outlawed criminal act will turn on whether he committed that act in his official capacity, such that the answer to the immunity question will always and inevitably be: It depends," Jackson wrote."

"Justice Barrett suggests that Trump should stand trial

In a concurrence, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2020, expressed frustration with how the court was sending the case back down for more proceedings.

"I would have framed the underlying legal issues differently," Barrett said.

She suggested that because Trump's wholesale challenge to the indictment had failed, at least some of the case could go forward.

She wrote "a President facing prosecution may challenge the constitutionality of a criminal statute as applied to official acts alleged in the indictment."

"If that challenge fails, however, he must stand trial," she said.

Barrett took issue with how the court had ruled that evidence from Trump's official acts should be excluded from the trial, writing that there was no reason to depart from the "familiar and time-tested procedure" that would allow for such evidence to be included."

from the above link

This does prove that Hillary was a much more dangerous threat to America than Trump would ever be.

"The Supreme Court's disastrous Trump immunity decision, explained

The Court's Trump immunity decision is a blueprint for dictatorship.

Trump v. United States is an astonishing opinion. It holds that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution " essentially, a license to commit crimes " so long as they use the official powers of their office to do so.

Broadly speaking, Chief Justice John Roberts's majority opinion reaches three conclusions...."

"Clarence Thomas Goes After Jack Smith in Supreme Court Ruling

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has questioned the legitimacy of Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel as the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump is partially immune from prosecution for actions taken while he was in the White House.

"If this unprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people. The lower courts should thus answer these essential questions concerning the special counsel's appointment before proceeding," Thomas added.

Thomas explained that he was writing a separate opinion, in support of the majority, to highlight that Smith may have been illegally appointed." excerpts

Dems need to forget all this Playing by the Rules in politics nonsense.

The Rules have changed when the SC becomes a tool of one Party, disinterested in the Law and Precedence.

The Senate and the WH need to Act Now to counter these Purely Political Justices on the SC.

And the Pres needs to have Trump arrested on charges proven in his Congressional Impeachment.

Because apparently the President can do anything he wants to now; all he needs to do is talk to his Aides about it first, then it's 'legal'.

This may backfire with the Independents big time.

Which may be our only hope for sanity.

"To start, let's look at how we got here.

All six Republican-appointed justices reached the court with the backing of groups like the billionaire-funded Federalist Society. Trump's three nominees for the court came from a list written by Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo.

The conservative legal movement's aim is no secret: to take us back to the America of the 1920s.

They want to return to a country when the excesses of unregulated capitalism went unrestrained (before plunging the nation into the Great Depression), and systemic sexism and racism went uncontested."

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But there is still a path to stopping the pro-Trump agenda on the court now, before the former president and his allies can get their hooks into the White House for the second time.

The Court has given Judge Chutkan the ability to hold an evidentiary hearing to apply its test.

That will allow her to rebut the presumption that Trump's pressure campaign against Pence is entitled to immunity and also to decide whether Trump's interactions with parties outside of the executive branch fall within the outer perimeter of official duties.

She should do so expeditiously, demonstrating that his conduct was not shielded by the Constitution.

While that is no substitute for a full trial, it is better than nothing and will at least call attention to Trump's propensity for breaking the law " a companion piece to the Manhattan conviction.

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The ultimate recourse is now at the ballot box. As in 2018, 2020 and 2022, the antidote to the MAGA agenda is an American public that is animated by a need to preserve our laws, justice and values.

We recognize that the stakes " and the risk " are even higher after the presidential debate, but also that ample time remains to make the case to the American people that accountability is up to them.

If Trump loses, there is no obstacle to his being tried in this and the other remaining criminal cases. Justice is now ultimately in the hands of the voters."

John Roberts Casually Obliterates Independent Justice Department

The Justice Department will no longer be an independent authority on the law, thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling on Donald Trump's immunity case Monday.

Instead, it will be an arm to be leveraged by the Oval Office, with open communication enabled between the federal law enforcement agency and the presidency for all future investigations.

Chief Justice John Roberts slipped the allowance into his majority opinion, as the justices ruled 6"3 in Trump's favor along ideological lines.

In a quiet sentence, Roberts argued that the fresh take on the executive branch relationship would help the president carry out his constitutional duties.

This means that if Trump returns to office, he will have free rein to wield the Justice Department as he sees fit " and he and his allies have already given plenty of indications as to what they plan to do.

The decision from the conservative majority overturned a federal appeals court ruling that had unanimously rejected all three of Trump's presidential immunity arguments in his January 6 case, "patiently, painstakingly, and unsparingly" dismantling his arguments in an "airtight" opinion, according to George Conway, a conservative attorney and ex-husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway.

Monday's ruling has effectively killed the January 6 trial, which would have been overseen by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan." excerpts

"Judges in Nazi Germany were instructed that in the event of any conflict between Nazi Party and law, Nazi Party should always succeed.

Things came to a head within three weeks of Hitler being sworn in as Chancellor in what is known as the Reichstag Fire case.

Hitler had this unexpressed expectation that the judges would find a sinister and ambitious conspiracy by the Communists behind the Reichstag fire, but the judges convicted only a single communist.

Outraged Hitler leveraged the authority conceded to him in terms of the Reichstag Fire Decree to set up his own judicial system, outside the hierarchical order of the German court system and even outside the ambit of German law.

These were the Sondergerichte or the Nazi special courts." more

"These measures spelt the death knell for the German legal and judicial system.

Even the fig leaf of feigned impartiality was ripped to shreds when Hitler addressed the judiciary in a speech in the Reichstag on 26 April 1942.

Hitler said: "I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation ... From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour."

from the above link

On a brighter note...

"Why Trump shouldn't celebrate the immunity ruling just yet

True, as the case now returns to the trial court, there is no longer time for a full jury trial in 2024.

But the opinion calls on District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to initiate the next best thing: an evidentiary hearing " a kind of mini-trial " that will thoroughly ventilate the facts in this case. She should do so quickly.

Smith charged Trump with engaging in a "criminal scheme" to subvert the 2020 election; Trump has pleaded not guilty to four counts.

The trial, which was originally scheduled to begin on March 4, has instead been stayed since December 2023.

That is when Trump appealed an order refusing to dismiss the case on immunity grounds " and the Supreme Court first declined to review the case, beginning its unconscionable slow-roll that finally ended almost seven months later with this new decision.

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First, the court has ruled that all of the allegations concerning Trump's interactions with the Justice Department " and his attempt to get them to interfere in the election " were official.

Therefore, all of that conduct is protected by immunity and cannot be presented at trial.

But the court also held that there are two allegations for which Trump has presumptive immunity, yet this presumption can be overcome:

the allegations surrounding his interactions with former Vice President Mike Pence, and his public communications.

However, the court did not specify what it would take for that presumption to be overcome. Again, that is for resolution by Chutkan in the mini-trial.

Finally, the court stated that there is one category of alleged conduct that requires a "fact-specific analysis of the indictment's extensive and interrelated allegations":

all of Trump's interactions with "persons outside the Executive Branch," including state officials and private parties.

More grist for Chutkan's courtroom." excerpts

- "This whole thing is so dumb and is designed literally to protect one person."

Well said.

At this moment, Dark Brandon could sic the DOJ on Trump the way Trumpers already claim he has.

It's tough being classy enough not to.

- because it's Trump.

SO... the DOJ can't go after the Fake Ballots Conspiracy, in which his own DOJ Trumpers threatened to resign en masse, but they MAY be able to go after the Plan B Fake Electors scheme, which almost werked.

Interestingly, the Ruling basically admits that Trump DID, as his own DOJ Leadership say he did, illegally try to get them to send a Letter to States changing the Ballot votes in his favor.

"it's Trump" because he broke the Law numerous times trying to overturn the Election.

His Cult obviously couldn't care less about that.

"There are no kings in America. Each, each of us is equal before the law. No one, no one is above the law, not even the president of the United States," Biden said in a speech from the White House.

"(With) today's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. For all practical purposes, there are virtually no limits on what the president can do.

It's a fundamentally new principle and it's a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law even including the supreme court of the United States."

Biden repeatedly warned that the limits of the president's power now solely rest with the choices made by the holder of the office. He said Trump would be a danger in that role.

"Let's talk about Trump, SCOTUS, and the immunity decision....

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Not even close...

#134

Traitors for Trump... they stick together.

- We'll be fine regardless of the outcome between the fraud and the fossil.

No we won't... the criminal just got a Get Out of Jail FREE card from the Supreme Court.

Of course, smart voters may realize this and vote for the fossil instead.

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Are you saying that if vaginas had ammo, we'd still have Row?

Interesting....

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McConnell's lame excuse for not convicting Trump in the Impeachment was that there were other laws that could be used to hold him accountable.

An argument that can't be used after this Rwing SC Coup of Justice.

- That excludes you.

Demanding whom?

There's not another candidate that matches up as well.

And the news of his demise is very much premature.

Indies don't actually love criminals.

- Both of your parties are ridiculous.

True, but only one of them has a Mafia Don as leader.

- droned a US citizen without cause.

More lies, same stupid Trumper.

"This chapter analyzes the constitutionality of the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen whom the executive branch believed to be a senior planner for AQAP (a regional branch of al-Qaeda), concluding that the Obama administration's claim that the killing was lawful is correct..."

- Pedophile Joe Biden

Still lying... like Trump like sonny boy, one supposes.

There's no direct evidence of Biden ever molesting anyone anywhere.

Your Cult Leader, however, is a very different story:

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Good article, including:

Here is John Roberts LYING at his confirmation hearing, where he said that presidents are bound by the law and not above the law.

I'm just fishin' for Indies....

- false talking points

Such as?