His grand plan to sheild his action under the umbrella of ‘ABSOLUTE Presidential Immunity’ seems to have gone up in flames yesterday…
Unless the Supreme’s want to overrule the strong 50 something page thumbs down from the three Appellate Court judges?
Ex-Preesident Donald J. Trump WILL BE going on trial in four different courts for criminal offences …
He has NO get out of jail free card….
The judges are NOT going for the Donald is the “King’ thing….
(Most the early views by legal experts is that the High Court would NOT stop the Trump criminal trials from moving forward since they are dealing with the 14 Amend case right now)
George Conway: “We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power—the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count.”
“At bottom, former President Trump’s stance would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches. Presidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the President, the Congress could not legislate, the Executive could not prosecute and the Judiciary could not review. We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter.”
“Careful evaluation of these concerns leads us to conclude that there is no functional justification for immunizing former Presidents from federal prosecution in general or for immunizing former President Trump from the specific charges in the Indictment. In so holding, we act, ‘not in derogation of the separation of powers, but to maintain their proper balance.’”
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Lawfare: “The panel’s most aggressive move was not in the opinion itself, which is straightforwardly correct, but in the judgment that accompanies it on the docket. There, the panel gave the following directions regarding the ‘issuance of the mandate,’ a next step that must take place before Judge Chutkan can resume Trump’s criminal trial…”
“In effect, this means that Trump can only stop the issuance of the mandate by petitioning the Supreme Court for a stay pending a full application for certiorari, not by seeking rehearing either before the panel or the en banc D.C. Circuit.”
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Politico: “Trump is expected to ask the high court to stave off the trial following Tuesday’s ruling from a federal appeals court that emphatically rejected his bid for ‘presidential immunity’ from the criminal charges.”
“The former president now faces a key deadline of next Monday to ask the Supreme Court to step in — and once he does, the justices will face a set of options with obvious ramifications for the presidential campaign.”
“They could hear Trump’s appeal on an accelerated schedule. They could take their time — and in doing so, essentially guarantee that the federal election-subversion trial could not occur before November. Or they could simply decline to hear Trump’s appeal at all — a move that would allow the trial proceedings, which have been stalled for nearly two months, to resume quickly.”
Just Security: How long will Trump’s immunity appeal take?