What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Spare a thought for his caps lock.

and his ketchup bottles....

There is no actual reason the SC should be looking at it.

Generally they are there to rule on dissenting judgements, to make decisions in places where two parties have interpreted law in different ways. They are not really supposed to be a place to go just because the loser didn't like the verdict.

There is no dissenting verdict in this case, no two points of law to be decided between. Trump said he was immune just because he thinks he should be, he didn't offer any law that gave him the right to declare that. When asked the question a court said that clearly he shouldn't be.

In a functioning state the SC wouldn't touch this with a bargepole.

talking heads pointing out they don't HAVE to take it, doesn't mean they won't

a unanimous 60 page decision would be a hard one for them to take up, but doesn't mean they can't.

They could drag it out to the end of the session in June/July or even put it on the docket for next court term which starts in October. There would be no logical reason for them to in this case but it doesn’t preclude the bare possibility.

Dragging it out to October would be openly political and I cannot imagine John Roberts wanting to get involved in that. They might take a month or so to "consider" it but I cannot see it being any longer than that.

This is a massive blow to Trump. Had he won this the entire Jan 6th would disappear.

This ruling, and any appeal to the Supreme Court, ensures it stays front and centre.

Another massive legal blow after last week's humiliating damages ruling.

It won't make any difference to his supporters who have shown themselves to not care about the law or responsibility, but this will give massive ammunition to Dems.

Trump will, as usual, attempt to laugh this off or claim a conspiracy but the troubles keep mounting and Trump, apart from the 2016 win, has shown little to think that he has any idea of how to get out of this.

He’s always thinking of the country.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111885702922727135

It baffles me that he believes that he is entitled to immunity, but that the incumbent isn't🤷‍♂️

Zero logic and whatever about being an agent of chaos? The man is fast becoming a gibbering idiot. Little rocketman was right back in 2017, when he called Trump a dotard...

Who knew North Korea had such intel 😉

This is pretty cool

Of the four main indictments hanging over Trump right now, do we know which one will conclude the soonest, or is likely to? It's just that the 2024 US general election already looks like it's going to be fraught in a way that modern western politics hasn't really seen even without the trials. Having the business end of them coincide with the business end of the campaign, where I have to think Trump will be doing everything he can to whip his support into a frenzy, is going to be something else. 'Messy' wouldn't adequately cover it, is my guess.

I fully agree with you that the POTUS is obviously an officer of the US, but law appears to utterly revel in semantics. I could be fully wrong, here, but the case appears to be about what 'officer' means with respect to A14 sec 3, even though the POTUS is named as an officer of the US in other parts of their constitution. I should think the original authors of that text didn't think it could be interpreted so murkily, but then again they probably didn't envisage someone like Donald Trump happening either. If it were so clear in the nitty-gritty technical sense, it obviously wouldn't have made it as a question to consider before the SCOTUS.