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| CNN in panic: The Supreme Court just jumped into the political deep end with Trump taxes lawsuit |
| 2019-12-15 |
| Washington (CNN) On the same day that a Democratic-led US House committee voted for articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court made its own momentous decision to intervene in Trump's effort to keep his tax returns and other financial records secret. The justices agreed to resolve in spring 2020 if a sitting president should be immune from any criminal proceeding, whether related to conduct before taking office or even -- to use Trump's famed example -- shooting someone on Fifth Avenue in New York. The high court also said it would determine the oversight authority of Congress in paired disputes arising from attempts by House Democrats to obtain Trump's financial documents. The eventual decisions would help define the high court in the Trump era, especially as Chief Justice John Roberts has tried to carefully navigate Trump-related litigation and regularly declares that the justices are above politics. Roberts, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005, has tried to shield the judiciary from the polarization in Washington, stepping up his efforts after the contentious confirmations of Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Last year, Roberts admonished Trump and said judges should not be labeled as "Obama judges" or "Trump judges," but rather as neutral decision-makers. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Would be worth to carry this over... |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-12-15 23:59 |
| #12 Democrats are not seriously thinking that the Senate would remove Trump. Their game is to make the Senate look complicit and thus encourage voters to turn the Senate blue. The Supreme Court Decision will come long after the Senate has decided. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-12-15 23:58 |
| #11 Agreed, European Conservative. Applying Democratic rules is how Senator Mitch McConnell is getting so many judges approved without Democratic involvement. The only way to get them to stop playing games is to apply their own rules against them — in this case the Democrats are posturing in front of the cameras instead of voting to impeach the president. Once that vote is taken, then the president’s people will comply. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-15 23:55 |
| #10 Never forget: Whatever is decided pro Trump will also benefit the next Democratic President. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-12-15 23:42 |
| #9 About the Professor Dershowitz thing: if one is doing it within the US court system, it's ipso facto not obstruction, regardless their decision. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-15 21:50 |
| #8 Accoring to Dershowitz the Supremes just killed one of the two Impeachment accounts against Trump. https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/alan-dershowitz-drops-the-hammer-supreme-court-just-obliterated-the-2nd-impeachment-charge-against-trump/ |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-12-15 20:59 |
| #7 ^ sic semper Shitshow |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-15 15:26 |
| #6 Assuming the House actually does pass those articles of impeachment, and the Senate must sit the trial within 24 or 48 hours — something like that — then sit all day, six days a week until it’s done, can they then postpone the vote on innocence or guilt until the Supreme Court returns their verdict? It seems especially mean to me to make all the presidential candidate senators come off the campaign trail until the trial is over, then keep them on tenterhooks until they’re called back for the final vote sometime in June, the result of which will steal all the oxygen from the room. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-15 15:11 |
| #5 Then start acting like neutral judges. We have Ruth Ginsburg openly rallying for the impeachment - which, if held in a real court and not a three ring circus, would have been thrown out as having *no* evidence whatsoever. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2019-12-15 09:32 |
| #4 Guys, if you didn't notice, Trump now has access to all of your records. See - Wikileaks. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-15 07:18 |
| #3 Time to dust off whatever kompromat the Deep State has on Roberts? No need to - Roberts is a squish. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-12-15 07:15 |
| #2 Could possibly be an COI issue with Roberts involvement in Senate impeachment trial and Trump tax issue. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-12-15 03:41 |
| #1 Time to dust off whatever kompromat the Deep State has on Roberts? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-15 03:38 |