This is an extraordinarily clear, succinct, insightful delineation of the Federalist Society's goals, as carried out through SCOTUS. It's also a very thorough discussion of the calculations of Raffensperger and his fellow Republicans. Bravo, Mr. Podhorzer.
*Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone that many of the former president's lawyers and political advisers have already accepted that the justices will likely rule against him, and reject his claims to expansive presidential immunity in perpetuity. Bringing the case before the court -- after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., shut down their arguments on executive power -- was a delaying tactic designed to push Trump's criminal election subversion trial past Election Day this fall. The strategy paid off so much more than MAGAworld anticipated.
"We already pulled off the heist," says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn't matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now.*
I suspect at least most of the SCOTUS right wingers have a point of view similar to Barr: Trump is a terrible person completely unfit to hold the office.
But we still have to try and keep Biden from appointing liberal judges.
You could probably add to this that the Republican SCOTUS justices almost certainly travel frequently in GOP-donor circles. They must be constantly harangued about the evils of the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda and well aware that most of the business community has gotten over its objections to the coup and now views another Trump term positively.
The justices still may not be enthusiastic about helping Trump, but they won’t go out of their way to hurt him and aid the enemy, the Biden administration. To avoid cognitive dissonance, they are downplaying the crimes of January 6 as much as possible in their own minds and their rulings.
This is an extraordinarily clear, succinct, insightful delineation of the Federalist Society's goals, as carried out through SCOTUS. It's also a very thorough discussion of the calculations of Raffensperger and his fellow Republicans. Bravo, Mr. Podhorzer.
From Rolling Stone today:
*Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone that many of the former president's lawyers and political advisers have already accepted that the justices will likely rule against him, and reject his claims to expansive presidential immunity in perpetuity. Bringing the case before the court -- after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., shut down their arguments on executive power -- was a delaying tactic designed to push Trump's criminal election subversion trial past Election Day this fall. The strategy paid off so much more than MAGAworld anticipated.
"We already pulled off the heist," says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn't matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now.*
I suspect at least most of the SCOTUS right wingers have a point of view similar to Barr: Trump is a terrible person completely unfit to hold the office.
But we still have to try and keep Biden from appointing liberal judges.
You could probably add to this that the Republican SCOTUS justices almost certainly travel frequently in GOP-donor circles. They must be constantly harangued about the evils of the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda and well aware that most of the business community has gotten over its objections to the coup and now views another Trump term positively.
The justices still may not be enthusiastic about helping Trump, but they won’t go out of their way to hurt him and aid the enemy, the Biden administration. To avoid cognitive dissonance, they are downplaying the crimes of January 6 as much as possible in their own minds and their rulings.