“Lightning Fast” Supreme Court Agrees To Expedite Decision On Hearing Trump Case
That didn’t take long…
Update: After petitioning the US Supreme Court to weigh in on former President Trump’s federal 2020 election case – specifically Trump’s presidential immunity defense, Special Counsel Jack Smith had his answer by end-of-day, after the Supreme Court granted his request to “expedite consideration of the petition.”
Attorney Steve Vladeck called the response “lightning-fast by the Supreme Court’s standards.”
Earlier today, Smith had asked the Court to order a response by next Monday, but this is still lightning-fast by the Supreme Court’s standards.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 11, 2023
Vladeck further clarified that “this is *not* the Court agreeing to take up the case now. It is just the Court agreeing to move *very* quickly in deciding *whether* to take up the case at this juncture (i.e., before the court of appeals).”
The Court gave Trump’s team until Dec. 20th to respond.
Statement from Trump Spokesperson on Deranged Jack Smith’s Filing with the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/arTyMGxBDN
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) December 11, 2023
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Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked the Supreme Court to immediately weigh in on former President Trump’s federal 2020 election case.
In a Monday filing, Smith asked the justices to weigh in on Trump’s immunity defense, by which Trump has cited presidential immunity to try and have the case tossed. The former president is accused of entering multiple criminal conspiracies to change the results of the 2020 US election.
The move comes after Trump appealed an appeals court judge’s rejection of that argument.
As The Reactionary notes;
The setting of Trump’s DC trial for the spring of 2024 – conveniently scheduled one day before the Super Tuesday primaries – was undoubtedly the result of a shared interest between the Special Counsel and the presiding judge, Tanya Chutkan: to convict Donald Trump before the 2024 election. Moreover, given the 11+ million pages of documents involved in this case, the hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of video and audio, and the hundreds of witnesses, the accelerated trial date was a violation of Trump’s Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, which includes the opportunity to prepare for trial.
The Special Counsel’s DC case against Trump comprises novel legal theories that have never been tried in American courts, most notably whether Presidential challenges to an election can be criminalized under the United States code. The attorneys for Trump have filed lengthy and well thought-out motions, reasoning that the Constitution and the doctrine of presidential immunity required dismissal of this criminal case. Judge Chutkan denied each one in her desire for a quick trial.
In the Monday filing, Smith cited Trump’s fast-approaching March 4 trial date.
“It is of imperative public importance that respondent’s claims of immunity be resolved by this Court and that respondent’s trial proceed as promptly as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected,” reads the filing.
Smith has also requested that the Supreme Court expedite its decision on whether it will take up the issue, period. If they do, he wants them to prioritize it over all other cases.
“This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy: whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal prosecution when he has been impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings begin,” reads the filing.
In his Supreme Court brief, Mr. Smith conceded that the trial would most likely have to be paused because of the appeal of the immunity issue. That position reversed the one his prosecutors took over the weekend in court papers, in which they argued that Judge Chutkan should not have to stay the case pending appeal.
Winning the appeal of the immunity decision was only one of Mr. Trump’s goals in challenging the decision. All along, he and his lawyers have had an alterative strategy: to delay the election interference trial for as long as possible. –NY Times
The filing comes after Judge Tanya S. Chutkan – who worked at the law firm which repped Fusion GPS, the company that helped orchestrate the Russia collusion hoax – rejected Trump’s sweeping claims of “absolute immunity” from an election interference indictment because it was based on actions taken while in office.
In her ruling, Chukan condemned attempts to “usurp the reins of government,” and said that nothing in the Constitution or US history supports the notion that a former president is immune.
Did I miss something? In SCOTUS request, Jack Smith repeatedly says it’s super important Trump immunity issue be decided quickly. But he doesn’t say *why* it must be decided quickly. Obviously, that is so Trump can be tried, convicted, and sentenced before 2024 election. Why not…
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 11, 2023
As the Times further suggests….
“If the trial were to be put off until after the 2024 election and Mr. Trump were to win, he could have his attorney general simply dismiss the charges. Holding a trial after the presidential race would also mean that voters would never hear any of the evidence that prosecutors have collected about Mr. Trump’s expansive efforts to reverse the results of the last election before weighing in on whether to re-elect him.”
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(TLB) published this article from ZeroHedge as compled and written by Tyler Durden
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Yes, it won’t take long to leave Trump hanging out to dry. SCOTUS is full of traitors.
Could their ruling protect biden?
If the leftists actually imprison Trump, it will cause a movement bigger than both Parties together, much bigger than blm/antifa. It may end up to be what Schumer warned/threatened SCOTUS and Trump about, you know rueing the day the SCOTUS decide against Roe vs Wade and Trump playing with Intelligence agencies. Whomever, wins office on Nov of 2024 must, absolutely must destroy the left, pardon the J6ers and everyone they imprisoned in their attempts to intimidate school board attendees and Catholic mass attendees.
The problem jack Smith has is that the election WAS stolen.
And what the president was doing was to try to expose the theft.
This fake prosecution is to try to hid that fact.
3 of the 4 trials were never meant to happen. The plan was to get Trump tied up in a slew of different cases, that would prevent his campaign from taking off and duping his supporters. The fourth trial, Trump’s Mar-A-Lago document case might not happen. Remember after a 3 month investigation, there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Biden for his multiple stashes of secret documents.
How to believe that? After Trump’s supporters returned, unfazed by this malarkey, he has 50% of the Republican primary vote, the rest will soon follow.
Democrats, never short of bad ideas, made up the 14th Amendment, claiming Trump led an insurrection. 3 states have already tossed the idea, of preventing Trump ballot access.
Let me know if you’ve heard this one. If elected, Trump will be a dictator. Yeah, that’ll get everyone’s attention.
Now, Smith realizing he could be unsuccessful in prosecuting Trump for everything Trump did on January 6th of everything except insurrection, is taking the January 6th case to the SCOTUS. If the SCOTUS decides Trump is protected, Smith doesn’t have to do a fake trial. If the SCOTUS allows him to proceed with the trial, then Smith, just kind of goes forward.
If the SCOTUS puts the kibosh on this case, will the 14th Amendment cases stop? I would expect so.
And, it’s not like Trump is the only feature at the Politiplex Theater. Will Biden pardon his son? The closer Hunter gets to his trial date, the more evidence we will be known. Some could directly implicate Joe. If Hunter is pardoned sooner, the less likely Joe’s dirt goes public. And, for the Biden campaign, The End.
My guess is they did that, skipping the appellate process, to stick it to Trump quicker. Typically they don’t allow line jumping but not always. Hope I’m wrong but it’s not much to cling to.
DemoKKKrat commie filth need to protect vote fraud by prosecuting anyone that disagrees with blatantly stolen elections. It’s time to vote upon leftists with the 2nd Amendment.