Trump’s lawyers don’t expect the Supreme Court to bless his absurd immunity claims. “We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump.
Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won.
Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone that many of the former president’s lawyers and political advisers have already accepted that the justices will likely rule against him, and reject his claims to expansive presidential immunity in perpetuity. Bringing the case before the court — after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., shut down their arguments on executive power — was a delaying tactic designed to push Trump’s criminal election subversion trial past Election Day this fall. The strategy paid off so much more than MAGAworld anticipated.
“We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now.
We know why we're hated; it's why those of us who strive to exemplify professionalism, ethics, and civility are so angry and depressed. It's why I've been having a career crisis because I always wanted to go into law, but only to do good, and now it feels like there is so little legitimacy to the judicial branch.
Fuck the people who abuse the rule of law until there is none, fuck Trump and his cronies, and fuck SCOTUS for fucking us. Now excuse me, I have to go cry in a corner.
You can always bail. I did. That JD is wildly useful in other industries. Over a third of the people I'm still in contact with from my graduating class aren't actively practicing anymore.
I knew a guy who wanted to be a lawyer for the same reasons. Got his degree and passed the bar, then quit and went back to school for biomed. He said he loved law itself, but realized he hated pretty much every coworker and every client, and he knew if he stayed in it he'd become a person he hated as well.
You could check Urban Dictionary online, but as I understand it, pop off usually means to say or do something to great effect (such as effectively speaking truth to power). Doesn't have to only be about speech or putting someone in their place, but it often is.
If they even think for a second about trying to organize any kind of violent crime they'll have FBI informants and surveillance all over their lives faster than they can say January 6th
Until the Supreme Court actually sides with his arguments.
If that does happen Biden should just have him jailed and removed from every ballot in the country, then unilaterally impeach every member of the Supreme Court who assented. Biden’s the president he can do what he wants, he has immunity
Even if they can't try him by election day, I hope they still convict and imprison him even if he's in office. The presidency is not blanket immunity.
Honestly, courts can move quickly if they want. I say try him quickly (after all, he has the right to a speedy trial) and let him appeal from prison, like anyone else would have to. No special treatment.
Furthermore, I hope everyone making these appears in bad also receives some kind of consequence.