Relax. I Not Only GET The SCOTUS Decision, I Agree With It

Believe me, I know the feeling and impulse. When I first heard the news at about 12:30m PDT that the Supreme Court had declined to allow Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for an expedited hearing on Trump’s claim of absolute immunity.

I know, I know. My own first response on hearing the news was, Those sons of bitches just gave that fat pr*ck a free pass on the DC case until after the election! Bu the more that I took the effort to pull my knee jerk reaction back, listened to the information coming in, looked at the bigger picture, as you’re entitled for me to do, my chill pill kicked in, and I started breathing normally again. And that was when I realized that the Supreme Court had done the only thing it could do.

Look, Jack Smith’s filing that motion was a pre-emptive strike against Trump’s delay tactics. Trump tried filing his motion in front of the unflappable Judge Tanya Chutkun to dismiss the charges against Traitor tot since his being President offered him absolute immunity to prosecution. Judge Chutkan unceremoniously blew The Mango Mjessiah off, but put enough pages of judicial due diligence into her ruling to make it pretty much bulletproof in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

But here’s where the wicket gets sticky. After Chutkan files her decision, El Pendejo President has something like 30-45 days to file his appeak with the appellate court. Once hs does that, Smith has something like 14 days to file his response, Trump gets 10 days to file a rebuttal, and Smith has 5 days to file his final word. The court will then schedule a date for oral arguments. Meanwhile, tempus is fugiting on the March 4th scheduled trial date.

And so Smith pulled an end run. First he filed a motion with the 4th Circuirt Court of Appeals for an expedited hearing, and then turned around and filed a motion to take up the case immediately, bypassing the slower appellate court, and ruling on the matter directly, most riki-tik.

But here’s the spanner in the works. The appellate court agreed to Smith’s request for an expedited hearing and judgement. Which must have pissed off Trump’s lawyers mondo. The court gave them until the middle of next week to file their briefs, and have scheduled January 9th for oral arguments. The court can rule any time after that.

And just to show you how quickly a motivated appellate circuit court can rule, just think of this. Last Friday Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s lawyers went in front of the 11th Circuit Appellate Court to argue his case that he should be tried in federal court rather than Georgia state court. That was on Friday. This Tuesday would be the first scheduled business day for the court of the week. Which means that the judges involved spent Monday working on their ruling, because by 1:30 EST on Tuesday, they advised Meadows that he was sh*t outta runway, and get ready for trial in Georgia.

This is why I side with the Supreme Court, and perfectly understand their logic. This case is without one of the most critical, existential court hearings in the history of the republic. Think about it. We have never had a former President of the United States going to trial for criminal acts committed while he was the President of the United States! This is the Holy Grail of American jurisprudence, even bringing into play a possible conflict between the executive and judicial branches of the United States government, branches purposely separated by the Constitution.

Here’s Scenario #1. The Supreme Court agrees to take up Jack Smith’s motion to expedite the case, and agrees to hear oral arguments before the 4th appellate court chimes in. They have the hearing, and on an expedited bases rule against Trump. The March 4th trial date is now on a smooth glide path with only minimal delays possible.

And Trump and his legal sock puppets immediately assail the Supreme Court as an insidious part of the deep state, for jumping the shark and runing against The Cheeto Prophet before he had the chance to exhaust his rights to due process. The court could probably survive that criticism on the arguments of overwhelming public interest as well as the expediency of time in order to assure a fair trial before the 2024 election.

Here’s scenario 2, the one we actually have. Had the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals followed their normal protocol, accepting written briefs under the usual schedule, and scheduling oral arguments for sometime in late February or early March, then it would make sense for the Supreme Court to step in and take the case immediately.

Instead the appellate court has already agreed to hear the case on an expedited manner, and scheduled January 9th for oral arguments. Their ruling would likely come down within two weeks under the expedited process.

You’re the Supreme Court. You are about to embark on making a cataclysmic decision that could change the core of our democracy as we know it. Is a former President above the law? In making a decision at that level, wouldn’t you to have the steady, researched opinion of every possible court to give you the most research and judicial opinion possible for consideration in your ultimate ruling? After all, it gives you ground cover in whatever your final ruling is that you consulted every source. And that’s what the 4th Circuit Court gave the Supreme Court air cover to do, delay their initial entry into the matter in order to allow for full due process in order to shut the Trump flying monkeys up.

But here’s the funny thing. Even if His Lowness manages to slow things down to a crawl, Trump is still f*cked. Royally. Because let’s just say that things get bogged down in the federal court on the March trial. Judge Chuktan announces that she is now scheduling a revised trial date for June 17th.

Fulton County DA Fani Willis has already advised trial judge McAfee in Atlanta that she’s really only waiting for a viable trial date. She has advised him that she would be ready to proceed to pre-trial hearing and jury selection within 30 days of a suitable trial date opening in the calendar. If Judge Chutkan delays her trial date, Willis is more than ready to hump into the breach and fill that hole. Trump just gets tried in Georgia instead of DC. Either way, his fat ass goes to trial.

I know this is frustrating, I’m frustrated too. But we’re in uncharted territory here, and territory we’re not likely to see again. With that being said, no matter how much I hate and disagree with the ideological makeup of the Roberts court, I cannot damn the Roberts court for taking advantage of every available resource to use in reaching a decision. Besides, the Supreme Court has already ruled agai9nst Trump’s claims of executive privilege and absolute immunity before. And nothing has changed. The only real question here is where the venue of Trump’s next trial will be.

I thank you for the privilege of your time.