“Even this Supreme Court, with its 6-3 Republican-appointed supermajority, is unlikely to buy Trump’s argument that former presidents enjoy broad immunity from criminal prosecution. Trump’s lawyers have not even attempted to hide the implications of this argument. When the case was heard by a lower federal court, a judge asked Trump’s lawyer if the former president was immune from prosecution even if he’d ordered “SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.”
Trump’s lawyer responded that Trump was immune, unless he were first impeached and convicted by the Senate.”
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“Trump’s goal is to delay his trial for as long as possible — ideally, from his perspective, until after this November’s election.
And in this respect, the Supreme Court has already given him what he wants. So long as this case is sitting before the justices, that trial cannot happen. And the justices have repeatedly refused special prosecutor Jack Smith’s requests to decide this immunity question on an expedited schedule that would ensure that Trump’s criminal trial can still happen before November.
This decision to put Trump’s appeal on the slow track is part of a much larger pattern in this Supreme Court:
The justices do not always need to rule in favor of a conservative party on the merits in order to achieve a conservative result. They can do so simply by manipulating their own calendar.”
https://www.vox.com/scotus/24134882/supreme-court-donald-trump-immunity-calendar-delay