It’s not illegal because Trump has SCOTUS in his pocket. |
That’s why he appointed a third of the court. |
It is up is down Orwellian nonsense that Alito argued this with a straight face. I’d ask if the guy has had some sort of a stroke, but I know it’s just the corruption talking.
Alito: “If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?” In other words, Trump can do whatever he wants. Because we all know he wouldn’t make any similar arguments for Biden. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/supreme-court-justice-samuel-alito-argues-presidents-must-be-allowed-to-commit-federal-crimes-or-democracy-as-we-know-it-will-be-over |
That's because the REAL media knows he was mocking the claims. The fact that you can't see that is telling. |
Bet Nina Totenberg is on it! She has covered for the court for years. Nothing gets by her and her fellow reporters. I mean her access to the court…she is on first name basis with many of the Justices. Same with all the lawyers who worked before the court. They would surely make a stink about something like this! They do not care about access. The justices are not petty hyper partisan unaccountable people. They would never hold a grudge. |
DP, but my God. The gaslighting. The craven Senate majority leader refused to allow a vote on a SC nominee to fill Scalia's seat because it was an election YEAR. Then he filled a SC seat under the same circumstances just weeks before an election. This after the Federalist Society and Leo have engineered a pipeline of conservative judicial nominees, to the exclusion of other nominees, for something like 20 years. It's anti-democratic and should be criminal. https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority |
Oh, so was that like one of Trump’s “jokes”? One where we’re supposed to have a sense of humor but know when he’s serious… and set aside the fact that Leonard was openly bragging because he does, in fact, own the conservative members of the court. |
Got to ask why even hid it? Just give him a suitcase of cash before each case and send him a monthly retainer check. Nothing will happen. There is no way to open an investigation and there will never be an impeachment. |
+1 Thomas is a mean old son of a gun and he will die in that chair. Republicans love corruption. They want the old Soviet style system of winks and nods and the people with the power keep the power. |