I Think I Know The SCOTUS Ruling On Trump Immunity, And I Know Why It’s So Late

Well, once again the Supreme Court doesn’t disappoint. First they take on a historically low number of docket cases for a term, and then they can’t even turn in their homework on time. Now there’s only one week of school left, and if Izzy Undercover and Ivan Gottasecret (aka Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito) want to go fly undercover Christian nationalist flags and sneak onto billionaires yachts, they have to get their sh*t together.

But the Supreme Court has occasionally been  known to show its Freudian slip, and now, at the end, they’re starting to drop ten gallon hints into what’s coming. And I think I may have twigged the Crying Game ending to a couple of their rulings.

Despite the sturm und drang of this term, the Supreme Court has proven on occasion that it can do a couple of things it should do all the time if it wants to take on a SCOTUS like workload, and start to rehabilitate itself. 1) They have proven that they can actually comprehend and follow simple pillars of the law when they want to, and 2) They can move with impressive speed and dispatch when the mood moves them. Here’s three examples, and then we’ll make them into one thread after;

• In the Mifepristone ruling, the justices knew that rolling back the FDA approval would lead to pitchforks and torches. So they fell back on an old saw. Not only one that should have been used by the previous two lower courts, but that they themselves should have used on multiple other rulings this term, Lack of standing. A bunch of far right Evangelical wingnut doctors who have never, and could never be forced to administer abortion by pill have suffered no personal or professional damage, and therefore have no dog in the abortion pill fight
• In the ruling today involving 2nd Amendment rights vs owners of domestic violence orders of protection, of course eight of the nine justices ruled that you don’t get to possess a Glock 9mm so you can partake in a little 2nd Amendment justice
• And in the Colorado v Trump case, the Supreme Court proved that it could move with due speed and dispatch. Mainly because Traitor Tot was running up against a group of deadlines in getting his name on several state ballots with similar suits, so they decided the issue in Trump’s favor in 28 days

Now, let’s take these three eggs and make a nice, tasty omelet;

• My guess is that the Supreme Court will come down like a toon of bricks against Trump on his ridiculous Unlimited Immunity claims. We’ll crack those first two eggs showing that it is patently imbecilic for any lawyer with standing to argue a case to present to the Supreme Court, or any court that sitting President can have a political opponent whacked by Seal Team 6, and if he’s not impeached in the House, and convicted in the senate, then it’s just another one of Trump’s mulligans. even pundits say his only real hope is some form of limited immunity, forcing the presiding district court judge to hold hearings determining which charges have no immunity, leading to another endless round of appeals, and another trip to the Supreme court. I wrote previously that I think that that’s the last thing that Roberts wants to keep diving into until he retires, so they’ll squash Trump like a bug
• With the Colorado case the court showed that it can move with speed and decisiveness. In the Colorado case they ruled in 28 days. Roberts above all must have known that the pressure and speculation would only build the longer the delay became, and the backlash would only become worse when a Trump friendly decision was announced. Since the justices have already shown that they really don’t give a sh*t about making unpopular and blatantly wrong rulings, why not just rule for Trump in 28 days, take the heat, and move on to the next bullsh*t decision? I think that the SCOTUS is going to dump on Trump, but for some reason is delaying the inevitable

I think I know why, and oddly enough, there’s nothing nefarious about it, just one or two justices using a common, if slightly arcane rule of appellate procedure to their own nefarious purposes.

In any appellate case, when a ruling is issued, each judge has the opportunity to write an opinion on the case. Most appellate cases, if not unanimous have two opinions, one affirming opinion and one dissenting opinion. Occasionally there may be more than one, simply because a justice or judge want to make his own point known.

I think that the ‘supreme Court actually issued their ruling weeks, if not more than a month ago, and were ready to drop Trump like a bad habit. Voth Izzy and Ivan were as pissed as hell, smelling sofa bedtime coming, and announced a dissenting opinion. The problem there is that there is no time limit on the completion of dissenting opinions. So Thomas and Alito are just being pr*cks dragging this out as long as possible in protest for not getting their way.

When you look at the pattern bread crumbs the justices have left us this term, it’s the only thing that makes sense. If the justices were going to rule for Trump, they would have done so expeditiously, gotten that monkey off of his back, and move on. Again, considering the ridiculous nature of Trump’s claims, why drag out the inevitable smackdown and make your lives miserable? because two miserable mofo’s wanted to drag it out and make it that way. But either way Trump is going down.

And since I’m already out on a limb here, I’ll close by extrapolating the same data on another major decision yet to come down the pike. The case is between major polluters suing the EPA over The Chevron Doctrine. That’s SCOTUS precedent case law, and simply it means that when a government agency with content expertise issues a technical ruling that a coropration or corporations don’t like, and sue, the courts will defer to the government agency with the expertise, rather than meddle in something they know nothing about, and can never hope to master in time for a ruling.

In this wild west 6-3 conservative court, companies are taking another whack at the Chevron Doctrine. But just like with Kavanaugh’s half baked concept of limited immunity for Trump, I think that Roberts smells a quick, easy out here. Like with Trump’s immunity, fi the Roberts court rules for the plaintiffs, then he spends the rest of his life tied up in highly dull, highly technical arguments he knoes jack sh*t about, making a guess with potentially millions of lives at stake. Better to just uphold the doctrine, and throw this particular baby out with the bath water.

I thank you for the privilege of your time.

Bones Phree Phriday Phun Pun!

They recently held a national chess tournament here in Vegas. They held it in the largest ballroom at the Bellagio hotel. On the 2nd day of the tournament, a bunch of the players were standing around outside, bragging about their moves the day before, and waiting for the doors to open. A man in a black suit walked up, introduced himself as the lobby manager, and told them they would have to disburse until the doors opened. When they asked him why, he replied that If there’s one thing I can’t tolerate, it’s a bunch of chess nuts boasting on an open foyer!

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