Harry Litman: ‘FASCINATING TURN OF EVENTS in Donald Trump’s Appeal’

Posted on January 2, 2024 by FredSchneiderUS

Harry Litman: FASCINATING TURN OF EVENTS in Donald Trump's AppealSource:Harry Litman– Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“A nonprofit watchdog organizaion, American Oversight, filed an amicus brief arguing that the DC Court of Appeals does not have jurisdiction to take up Trump’s immunity appeal. Instead, the lawyers argue, the immunity question should be sent back to Judge Chutkan.”

From Harry Litman

“Represented by Arnold & Porter, American Oversight argues that the D.C. Circuit lacks jurisdiction to hear Trump’s appeal and should send the case back to the district court for trial without further delay. Neither the special counsel nor Trump, nor anyone previously, has raised this issue.

Statement from American Oversight Executive Director Heather Sawyer:
“Trump’s goal is to delay the trial until after the 2024 presidential election under the theory that if he wins the presidency, he may never be held accountable for his effort to overturn the 2020 election. This is a perfect example of the adage ‘justice delayed is justice denied.’ The American people should have the benefit of a jury verdict on Trump’s guilt before they choose the next president of the United States.”

As the American Oversight amicus brief argues, Supreme Court precedent prohibits a criminal defendant from immediately appealing an order denying immunity unless the claimed immunity is based on “an explicit statutory or constitutional guarantee that trial will not occur.” Trump’s claims of immunity rests on no such explicit guarantee. Therefore, given that Trump has not been convicted or sentenced, his appeal is premature. The D.C. Circuit lacks appellate jurisdiction and should dismiss the appeal and return the case to district court for trial promptly.

Arnold & Porter partner Stanton Jones stated: “The law is clear: Mr. Trump cannot appeal his immunity defenses until after he is tried and convicted. He should not be allowed to use an improper appeal to delay the scheduled March trial.”

On Dec. 23, Trump filed a brief in the appellate court asking that the charges against him be dismissed on the grounds that he is immune from prosecution. The Department of Justice’s opposition is due on Saturday, Dec. 30, and Trump’s reply is due on Jan. 2. Oral argument is scheduled for Jan. 9.”

From American Oversight

“A district court order denying a defendant’s motion to dismiss an indictment for an alleged violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e), which prohibits public disclosure by Government attorneys of matters occurring before a grand jury, is not immediately appealable under 28 U. S. C. § 1291. Since petitioners have not yet been sentenced, the District Court’s order is not a final judgment ending the litigation on the merits.”

From Supreme Justia

When I first heard about this, I was thinking as a non-lawyer that this would just add to the delay of the Trump trial in Washington Federal Circuit Court, because I’m thinking now the appeals court would not only have to deal with Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity, but have to deal with this amicus brief first.

But you listen to Harry Litman, he says that the appeals court would take this first and then rule on that and if American Oversight wins, the case goes back to Judge Tanya Chutkan’s circuit court in Washington and that trial gets back on track. And of course if Donald Trump loses on this as well, his lawyers would of course appeal that to the appeals court, but as they’re doing that, Judge Chutkan’s case would continue to move forward and the stay would end at that point.

And then Trump would have to win on the amicus brief appeal, before the stay would come back. But American Oversight apparently has the case and precedent that you need to win their case.

So Donald Trump’s game of delay, stonewall, and obstruct, could be ending this month, with his case Washington case getting back on course and perhaps that trial starting in late March.

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Ben Meiselas: ‘Donald Trump Lawyer Instantly Makes a TOTAL FOOL of HERSELF on LIVE TV, Again’

Posted on December 29, 2023 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch: Donald Trump Lawyer Instantly Makes a TOTAL FOOL of HERSELF on LIVE TV…AGAINSource:Meidas Touch– Donald Trump propagandist & perhaps Trump University graduate, Alina Habba.

Source:The New Democrat

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Donald Trump’s lawyer went on right-wing media and made an instant fool of herself again.”

From the Meidas Touch

“Newsmax host Sebastian Gorka, filling in for Greg Kelly on Wednesday, absolutely fawned over Alina Habba — the legal spokesperson for former President Donald Trump.

After playing a clip of Habba dressing down the press in Washington a few months ago, Gorka welcomed Habba on to the show and served up an enormous softball to kick off his interview.

“What kind of training have you had?” Gorka asked. “Because you make it look just so easy! You walk up to the insane lying press and you just … you just have no podium, no teleprompter, and you just crush them! How do you make it look so easy, Alina?”

“Patriotism,” Habba replied. “I think it’s the same thing that you suffer from, right? We love our country. And I haven’t had any training. PR is not my thing. I’m a lawyer. But I’m passionate about the president getting back to business and cleaning up our country. And when you have passion for anything and you have the facts on your side, I think it’s relatively easy to speak from the heart and to speak honestly and eloquently.”

Habba has gotten much criticism for a series of gaffes while speaking on behalf of the former president. In early December, Habba pledged that Trump would testify in his New York fraud trial just days before he bailed.

“People that are afraid cower, President Trump doesn’t cower,” Habba said — four days before Trump cowered.

Habba was shredded by legal experts for a comment she made in late August — in which she seemed to directly contradict the arguments of other Trump attorneys seeking to delay Trump’s various court cases because he needs time to prepare for them.

“What is he going to have to be prepped for? The truth?” Habba told Fox News on Aug. 27. “You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong.”

And in a June interview, Fox News anchor Shannon Bream busted a claim from Habba in real time that the photo of a box taken during the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago merely contained “pictures” and “mementos” – forcing Habba to backpedal right on the spot.

But Gorka, nonetheless, remains a big fan. He lauded Habba for saying “patriotism” is what makes her an effective spokesperson.

“I’m happy to suffer very seriously from the disease of patriotism,” Gorka said.

Watch above, via Newsmax.”

From Mediate

As I wrote about Alina Habba back in November on The New Democrat :

“Alina Habba is not really a trial lawyer. She can barely afford to do whatever she does as a lawyer right now. She’s more of a public relations lawyer, if anything at all, who makes her living trying her client’s cases on TV and on social media. But she’s officially Donald Trump’s civil lawyer right now because she’s about the best of what’s left to try to defend him, because of his own financial situation and all the evidence that’s against him right now, in multiple cases.

Perhaps one of the reasons right now that Alina Habba owes millions of dollars, is because her own client is not paying her. But she’s trying to work for him anyway, perhaps banking on the fact that defending a former President of the United States, would lead to clients who can and would pay her very well for her legal advice and actions in the future. But that career strategy is obviously not working out for her right now.”

As I wrote about Alina Habba a couple weeks ago on The New Democrat :

“So to put all of this in English: (or perhaps broken American English) Donald Trump lost his civil immunity case in the E. Jeanne Carrol case, because his own damn lawyer Alina Habba, didn’t file her motion in time to win that appeal and give her client civil immunity here.

My post about DJT’s lawyer Alina Habba from back in November still stands here. She’s not up to the task, doesn’t have the experience, the knowledge, the professionalism, to defend a client at the level of Donald Trump, when you are talking about a former President of the United States and now serial criminal defendant.

DJT needs much better legal representation. But Alina Habba might be the best of what’s left to even consider representing a man who not only commits felonies on a regular basis, but who leaves incriminating evidence against him all over the place, either thinking he’ll never get caught, or convicted, or he’s simply above the law and has some constitutional right that no other American citizen has.”

As I wrote a couple weeks ago on The New Democrat :

“So what what Ben Meiselas is talking about here (and I will get to the point faster) is that Donald Trump’s New York County lawyer, Alina Habba, is arguing to the appeals court, that her client Donald Trump has absolute immunity, period. And she referenced Nxon V Fitzgerald, a case that that US Air Force officer Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald made against President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s. ”

And as I wrote last week about Alina Habba on The New Democrat :

“OK, to try to explain Alina Habba and what she’s up too or why she does and says the things that she does, especially on national TV, where she’ll never be able to run away from her garbage statements, or in court, where again everything piece of trash that she tried to present in court on behalf of her client Donald J. Trump, I can only come up with a few possibilities for why she does this and puts herself through, as someone whose never even met her.

I guess one possibility is that she’s a total moron. But then how the hell she get out of high school, let alone through college and then law school, and then pass the bar exam. So I don’t think just labeling her as a total moron makes much sense here.

I guess another possibility is that Alina Habba is a pathological liar who simply can’t help herself and perhaps she’s corrupt as well, which would along with her being a compulsive liar, would explain all of her garbage statements as a freakin lawyer, whose supposed to be a member of the American Bar Association. Along with being a pathological liar, she also just happens to be President of the Compulsive Liars of America, (not saying such organization exists) which seems to be a position unlike being a civil defense attorney, that she would be well-qualified for.

Another possibility and I think one that has real possibility, just based on her statements and behavior, she got her law degree from Trump University, which would explain horrible statements and positions as a lawyer…

I think crook and pathological liar, are the best possibilities for why Alina Habba does the things that she does and says the things that she does. But you are welcome to weigh in on this as well and tell me what you think about this and her.”

I promise this is my last post about Donald Trump’s New York County propagandist Alina Habba. But only because this is my last post of 2023 for The New Democrat. Warning! You could hear a lot more from me about her in 2024.

Nothing has changed here, other than the fact I guess, if Alina Habba got paid to make a fool of herself on national TV, Oprah Winfrey could go to Alina for loans. I mean Alina Habba would be the richest woman and perhaps person in the entire world, (not just MAGA World, which isn’t much bigger than Pluto, in American terms) if her simple job in life was to make a fool for herself, not just on national TV, but in civil court as well.

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CNN: Newsnight With Abby Phillip: ‘A Look at Nikki Haley’s History of Comments About The Civil War’

Posted on December 29, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN: A look At Nikki Haley’s History of Comments About The Civil WarSource:CNN– former U.N. Ambassador, as well as Governor of South Carolina, and 2023 Republican presidential candidate, Nikki Haley.

Source:The New Democrat

“CNN’s Abby Phillip looks back at former South Carolina governor and GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s past comments about the Civil War. Former George W. Bush advisor Mark McKinnon and Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton discuss.”

From CNN

Nikki Haley: “What was the cause of the United States Civil War,” an audience member asked. Haley took a few deep breaths before responding, “Well, don’t come with an easy question.” South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union and the place where the first shots were fired in the Civil War. Given that she was born there and later served six years as the state’s governor, the question actually should’ve been easy to answer.”

From Forbes Magazine

Nikki Haley: “Of course the Civil War was about slavery,” something she called “a stain on America.” She went on to reiterate that “freedom matters. And individual rights and liberties matter for all people.”

From the Associated Press

Shermichael Singleton: “As an African-American who happens to be a Conservative, I thought her answer was quote despicable and embarrassing.

Whatever bump that she could’ve received from John Sununu, whatever bump that she could’ve received from the last several weeks now, I think that’s all gone, I think it’s over for her. You have a presidential candidate whose unable to answer a complicated question because they’re trying to placate to a base who in my opinion wouldn’t vote for her anyway. So why be so uncomfortable telling the truth? The Civil War about slavery and any comparisons that one would like to make about tradition, is odious to me. If you can’t be factual about history, I question your judgment to make decisions about the present that would ultimately make the future.”

From what I wrote about Nikki Haley back in October: “Also, between Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, would Trump voters turn out and vote for her? They tend not to turn out and vote in big numbers, when they’re cult leader (sometimes you have to be frank) isn’t on the ballot. And would they vote for someone whose not just a woman, but a Never-Trumper, whose also not from their race, ethnicity, generation, culture, etc?

And if she goes out-of-her-way for their vote and just tries to appeal to those voters, would that turn Independents off for her and also turn out more Democrats against her?”

From The New Democrat 

There are times in every successful leader’s career where they are tested and you know right there how strong of a person and leader that they are and how good their character is. The old expression you: “You never have a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression”, is how I look at Nikki Haley right now.

I wasn’t going to vote for her anyway, if it was a choice between her and Joe Biden. But she just reenforced not just to Democrats, but Independents, as well as Conservative Republicans, (you know, normal Republicans) who are suffocating in Trumpland right now, hoping for hope that there’s any shot in hell, that they’ll be able to vote for anyone other than Donald Trump or Joe Biden for President in 2024, that she’s still a late night TV host, looking for a prime time spot, but simply isn’t ready big leagues yet.

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton had the perfect comment here about Nikki Haley: “You have a presidential candidate whose unable to answer a complicated question because they’re trying to placate to a base who in my opinion wouldn’t vote for her anyway. So why be so uncomfortable telling the truth?

Does Nikki Haley really think that even in her home state of South Carolina, that that the far-right, is going to vote for a South Asian, as well as East Indian-American woman, a gen-xer, a daughter of immigrants, for President of the United States? Of course not. So why does she feel the need to try to get those folks who live in Fantasy Land ideologically and culturally?

I agree with Shermichael Singleton that this disqualifies her as a serious presidential candidate now. Maybe Nikki and Ron DeSantis can run for President together as a duo now.

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Ben Meiselas: ‘Donald Trump Makes DESPERATE PLEA For Judge Cannon To Save Him’

Posted on December 28, 2023 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch: Trump Makes DESPERATE PLEA For Judge Cannon To Save HimSource:Meidas Touch– left to right: U.S. Federal Judge Aileen Cannon & Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s latest classified information procedure act filing (CIPA) before Judge Aileen Cannon asking her to violate the law for him to stop Special Counsel Jack Smith.”

From the Meidas Touch

“CIPA Section 3 requires the court, upon the request of the government, to issue an order “to protect against the disclosure of any classified information disclosed by the United States to any defendant in any criminal case.” The government’s motion for a protective order is an excellent opportunity to begin educating the…

From the U.S. Department of Justice

As I wrote onThe New Democrat   back in November:

“I don’t want to make light of Judge Aileen Cannon or the case that she’s presiding over, because we’re talking about what could possibly be a treason case against The Donald J. Trump. But of the 3 felony cases against Donald Trump, this is 3rd most important.

We know that Judge Cannon is friendly towards Donald Trump. We know of all the 3 judicial districts that Trump is being tried in, Miami, Florida and Dade County, is the most friendly to him, of that 3. The other two cases against him, are in Washington and Atlanta, which are both, big cities, in big metro areas, that are overwhelmingly Democratic and anti-Donald Trump.

So unless Judge Cannon holds to her May 2024 deadline for her trial to begin, even with all the discovery, motions, and appeals that will be brought in her trial, the Washington case and the Atlanta case, might already be underway. And her case might have to be the 3rd one anyway, because of all the classified material and security clearances that will have to be made in her trial.

And Donald Trump could already be headed for conviction both in Washington and Atlanta, by the time Judge Cannon’s Miami case is underway. Or perhaps because she gets removed from her case because of how friendly she is to Donald Trump and his lawyer and how bias she is towards Jack Smith’s Special Counsel lawyers in this case.”

So what Ben Meiselas is arguing here, is that Donald Trump’s lawyers in Miami, Florida are arguing, is that Donald Trump should have special access to the classified information and evidence against him and not just have to be in court to be able to see it and have a personal copy of this information.

But, the whole point of the Classified Information Procedures Act, is to prevent defendants like Donald Trump, or anyone else whose facing these charges like this against them, to have this information and then be able to use that information against the prosecutors as blackmail: “You drop the charges against me and I won’t release or sell this information to the public…

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Harry Litman: ‘The Coming Biden Blowout’

Posted on December 28, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

Harry Litman: The Coming Biden Blowout With David FrumSource:Harry Litman talking to David Frum from The Atlantic about the 2024 presidential election.

Source:The New Democrat

“Harry talks with David from about his recent article in the Atlantic arguing that the Republican party is galloping ahead with an electoral strategy certain to secure defeat in November 2024. Frum discusses why the polling suggesting that Trump is even with or even ahead of Biden is flawed, and why Trump’s historical track record as a weak candidate will hold in the coming election. They end by discussing the possibility that Trump could change direction as a candidate to pursue a more effective strategy, which Frum suggests is beyond Trump’s capacities.”

From Harry Litman

“The Republican plan for 2024 is already failing, and the party leadership can see it and knows it.

There was no secret to a more intelligent and intentional Republican plan for 2024. It would have gone like this:

(1) Replace Donald Trump at the head of the ticket with somebody less obnoxious and impulsive.

(2) Capitalize on inflation and other economic troubles…

From The Atlantic

Just for the record: I sure as hell hope that David Frum is right here.

The only pushback I have to what Frum is arguing here, is that we went through this in late 2015 and the most of 2016 with Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton.

During the 2016 election cycle, Trump was considered so damaged for the Republican Party, that not only would Trump lose, but he would lose Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, maybe Indiana as well, to go along with Florida, Ohio, and the rest of the states that HRC had to win to the that election. Plus, Republicans were supposed to lose Congress as well (House & Senate) because with Donald Trump on the top of the ballot, Congressional Republicans wouldn’t be able to hold the House and Senate, because they would be tied to Donald Trump, etc. Anyone whose old enough to remember the 2016 general election, knows what happened during those elections.

Now the pushback to what I just said and I agree with this, is we already know what Donald Trump is like as President and he’s even more unpopular and in more legal, as well as financial trouble today, Joe Biden already beat him in 2020, and Republicans had a bad year in 2022 because of Donald Trump and his MAGA followers. And despite President Biden’s unpopularity, the economy is improving with not just high economic and job growth, as well as low unemployment, but wages are now rising faster than prices again, as David Frum also mentioned.

The only real prediction about this that I have myself, is I think Donald Trump’s legal situation is biggest achilles heel here. He can’t afford any convictions before the 2024 presidential election. There’s polling out there right now that even 2/3 of the Republican Party would not vote for Donald Trump for President, if he’s a convicted felon before election day 2024. And if his Washington trial goes to trial by let’s say the spring or late spring of 2024, he’ll probably lose that case by some point during that summer and perhaps be remanded into custody as well, which would officially end his presidential campaign.

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Michael Popok & Ben Meiselas: ‘Donald Trump in For RUDE AWAKENING When MEANING of Supreme Court Ruling is REVEALED’

Posted on December 27, 2023 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch: Donald Trump in For RUDE AWAKENING When MEANING of Supreme Court Ruling is REVEALEDSource:Meidas Touch– U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts & Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“On the most recent episode of the Legal AF podcast, trial lawyers Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok debate whether the US Supreme Court denying an immediate appeal to decide whether Donald Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution and federal court is a win, or a loss for special counsel Jack Smith and Justice.”

From the Meidas Touch

Just in any case anyone who follows The New Democrat has Alzheimer’s and can’t remember what they had for lunch today: we’re not lawyers. But Ben Meiselas just gave the perfect analysis for why the Supreme Court not taking Donald Trump’s immunity claim and going past the appeals court in Washington and instead letting the appeals court go first.

Ben Meiselas: “Jack Smith in his brief to the Supreme Court, admitted that he was asking for extraordinary relief in going to the Supreme Court first.

The reason why there was no dissent at the Supreme Court, was because the appeals court is moving so fast and had expedited this case and that this wouldn’t delay Jack Smith’s case that much at all. Maybe a few weeks or months, but this trial will happen and be concluded before the 2024 presidential election.”

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CNN: ‘Donald Trump Shares Paper’s Word Cloud Describing Potential Second Term’

Posted on December 27, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN: Donald Trump Shares Paper's Word Cloud Describing Potential Second TermSource:CNN– trying to go inside the mind of Donald J. Trump. I guess they missed the warning sign.

Source:The New Democrat

“Former President Donald Trump shared a word cloud posted by the Daily Mail that featured “revenge” and “dictatorship” as some of the most common words people surveyed chose to describe what a potential second Trump term would be about.”

From CNN

Just to pushback on what Scott Jennings said here, who I do respect as a Republican political analyst for his honesty and political intelligence, but who I’m going to quote here and then pushback here on him.

Scott Jennings: “Donald Trump is going to try to make this election a referendum on Joe Biden. If we have a referendum on Joe Biden and hold him to his promises. Joe Biden’s promises were I’m (meaning Joe Biden) going to calm every down, I’m going to have a boring presidency, I’m going to be an adult. That is how Trump wants to win the race.

If I’m Joe Biden, I’m going to try to remind people that the Trump years weren’t all that calm, they were chaotic as well. The problem is if you look at the polling, a lot of people are having nostalgia for the Trump years, particularly on the economy. So that’s Biden’s challenge that this is not as good as you remember.”

I think if Scott Jennings was Donald Trump’s presidential campaign manager and he was like the only person in the world that could get Donald Trump to take advice from anyone not named Donald Trump and he could get Donald Trump to discipline himself, (and pigs flew over the Atlantic Ocean and Mojave Desert was flooded with rain tomorrow) that might be the presidential campaign that Donald Trump would run. Assuming that little scenario about DJT being convicted and remanded into custody at the some point during the summer of 2024, wasn’t hanging over their heads. Don’t bet your paycheck on that not happening. Especially if you need your paycheck.

I think what Scott Jennings is laying out his preferred presidential campaign against Joe Biden. And saying this is how he would run that campaign and perhaps lending advice to Nikki Halley, if she were to somehow defeat DJT for the Republican nomination.

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Michael Popok: ‘Supreme Court Finally FACE TO FACE With Donald Trump Threats, NOW WHAT?’

Posted on December 26, 2023 by kireschneider

Meidas Touch: Supreme Court Finally FACE TO FACE with Trump Threats, NOW WHAT_!Source:Meidas Touch– left to right: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts & Defendant Don.

Source:The New Democrat

“For the second time in less than 25 years, the United States Supreme Court may choose our next President, just like they picked Bush over Gore in 2000. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains how the Court’s decisions over the next 60 days as to whether Trump can have his DC indictment dismissed on immunity grounds; whether 2 of his counts for obstruction of congress on Jan6 should be dismissed, and whether states can ban Trump from the ballot, coupled with their earlier political decisions on abortion, guns, voting, etc could choose our next president.”

From the Meidas Touch

Just for the record: The New Democrat doesn’t rely on the Medias Touch, whether you are talking about Michael Popok here, or Ben Mesielas, for their political commentary. (Left-wing propaganda might be more accurate) For the same reason why we don’t rely on MSNBC’s left-wing commentators for their political commentary, (or left-wing propaganda) because we’re not leftists. We rely on Medias for their legal commentary because they’re good lawyers and legal analysts.

As far as Michael Popok saying “the Supreme Court finally face to face with Donald Trump… , that will be about presidential immunity and whether the President of the United States is above the law either as President, or after he leaves The White House, for criminal charges against him, when he was President. And you know where I as a blogger and where The New Democrats stands on presidential immunity when it comes to criminal liability. Of course no American is above the law, including the current President and former President’s.

As I said last week on The New Democrat :

“What we know about at least 7, if not 8 of the current U.S. Supreme Court Justices, including the 3 that then President Donald Trump appointed, is that they’re not there to save Donald Trump’s neck. (To put it mildly) They are there to interpret the law and rule of the constitutionality of current laws.

We know that the current SCOTUS is not there to save DJT’s neck, because of all the rulings against then President Trump back in 2020, when he was trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and just automatically get himself declared the winner of that election, regardless of the final vote tallies in the Electoral College.

I’m thinking even Justice Sam Alito will rule against DJT because all the power it would give future Democratic President’s and not just DJT. And perhaps just Clarence Thomas rules in favor of DJT, or doesn’t make any ruling at all, because he doesn’t want to lose 8-1 on a case this important.”

The current Supreme Court, is not a MAGA court, (to correct what Michael Popok said) with Clarence Thomas and perhaps Samuel Alito being exceptions to that. They proved that during the 2020 presidential election and they also showed that in Donald Trump’s tax returns case. Assuming the Supreme Court goes by the law and the Constitution once again, they’ll rule against Donald Trump again as it relates to presidential immunity and they’ll do that fairly soon in 2024

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CNN: ‘Donald Trump Shares Christmas Message Insulting Politicians’

Posted on December 26, 2023 by FredSchneiderUS

CNN: Donald Trump Shares Christmas Message Insulting PoliticiansSource:CNN– Donald J. Trump representing The Devil this holiday season.

Source:The New Democrat

“Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to unleash an online torrent of fury and bitterness against some politicians including President Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Reporter Shelby Talcott joins “CNN This Morning” to discuss Trump’s Christmas message.”

From CNN

“Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY HOPE, Deranged Jack Smith,” Trump began in a Truth Social post at 2:38 p.m. EST.

Trump frequently describes Smith, who is prosecuting the former president over his actions connected to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, as deranged. The Supreme Court just Friday said it would not immediately consider a request by Smith to make a determination on Trump’s insistence he is immune from prosecution because he was taking presidential actions at the time.

“Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and ‘sick’ as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!” the former president concluded.

Trump remains the favorite to win the GOP presidential nomination. He has a 54 percent lead in the aggregation of polls kept by Decision Desk HQ and The Hill.

Trump is also looking strong in a one-on-one match-up against Biden. The Decision Desk-The Hill aggregation of polls shows Trump with a 1.9 percent lead.”

From The Hill

Since this is the holiday season, I’m going to have a little fun with this Donald Trump post and let people imagine what would American politics be like with the same economic and foreign affairs circumstances, had Donald J. Trump had just decided to go home and retire from American politics all together. If that happen, imagine what Joe Biden’s political situation would be right now.

As someone who was born when Jimmy Carter became President of the United States in 1977, I think that’s the best way to look at Joe Biden’s political situation right now. It’s the all chaos of the Carter years, in the Democratic Party, facing a normal, center-right, Republican Party, led by Ronald Reagan, in 1979-80.

I’m old enough to remember when most Republicans didn’t like dictators, or say that maybe we should have a dictator in America, or the Constitution is outdated and we need to throw it out and govern through Martial Law, or immigration is Un-American. Anyone whose in the mid or late 40s right now, or older, remembers that Republican Party as well.

But that’s not the political situation today. Americans aren’t happy with the economy and aren’t feeling the growth in it and they think prices are too hight today. But we don’t have 7-8% unemployment like we had in 1979-80, Unemployment is less that half today, what it was 44 years ago. Inflation and interest rates were more than double 44 years ago, from where they now. Real American personal income is actually rising today.

But the problem that President Biden had today, is that Americans aren’t feeling that economic growth, because interest rates are still too high for them and inflation even at 3%, is still 3 times as high as it was even in late 2020.

So you are President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as Senate Majority Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats, who want to at least keep control of the Senate for the next Congress, or House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the House Democrats, want to be in control of the House in the next Congress, you have to convince American voters, especially the core Democratic voting groups, as well as Independents who don’t want to take another long shot on Donald Trump, whose only running for President again to stay out of prison and punish his political opponents, you have to convince these voters, that Democratic Party not only feels their pain, (to paraphrase Bill Clinton) but that things are going to get better if the Democratic Party is able to stay in power.

The Democratic Party needs a plan to empower more Americans to take control over their own lives and where they’ll be able to afford to live in America comfortably again and not have to worry about how they’re going to be able to pay the rent or mortgage, or is driving now too expensive for them, or how they going to afford just to pay for groceries, etc.

As bad a human being as Donald Trump is, (and to me, he’s the definition of human garbage) running against him in 2024, even if he’s personally bankrupt and not just convicted but then remanded into custody of the U.S. Marshals before the 2024 election, won’t be enough.

Hillary Clinton and the Democrats simply tried running against the Donald Trump and company in 2024, because they knew she wasn’t a popular leader at that point and it didn’t work, because Democratic turnout was too low and she lost too many Democrats to Donald Trump.

So what Democrats needs in 2024 is of course make the case for why America can’t afford a President Donald Trump again, but what would a 2nd term for President Biden look like and how things would get better in his 2nd term as President.

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CBS News: ‘Supreme Court Declines To Fast-Track Donald Trump Immunity Dispute’

Posted on December 22, 2023 by kireschneider

CBS News: Supreme Court Declines to Fast-Track Donald Trump Immunity DisputeSource:CBS News with Defendant Don (as The New Democrat calls Donald J. Trump)

Source:The New Democrat

“The Supreme Court on Friday declined to fast-track a dispute over Donald Trump’s immunity for his actions as president.”

From CBS News

“The Supreme Court on Friday declined for now to take up a landmark case over whether former President Donald Trump is absolutely immune from prosecution for alleged crimes committed while he was in office, a move that allows the appeals process to play out first.

The court issued a one-line, unsigned order denying the request from special counsel Jack Smith: “The petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment is denied.” There were no noted dissents.

The Supreme Court’s decision Friday is a blow to Smith and his team of prosecutors, who have pushed the courts to move quickly to hold trials in the Washington case and the second prosecution in Florida before the presidential election swings into full gear. Trump’s attorneys, meanwhile, have urged the courts to delay the trials until after the election.

The special counsel’s office declined to comment on the court’s decision.”

From CBS News

From Donald Trump’s lawyer: “In 234 years of American history, no President has ever faced criminal prosecution for his criminal acts until 19 days ago,”

Just to correct the record: Donald J. Trump is not being prosecuted for his official acts as President. He’s being prosecuted for criminal acts as President.

From Find Law:

“The President is immune from civil liability absolutely for suits arising from actions relating to official duties. This includes all acts in the “outer perimeter” of those duties. However, the President is not immune from actions arising from unofficial conduct.”

Yes, this is a win for Donald Trump and his legal team. There’s no way to spin that other than to say that win could be very temporarily.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the same court that handled Mark Meadows claim to move his Atlanta case to Federal court, that rejected that appeal, the decision that was written by Judge William Pryor just this week, is also handling President Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. They’re going to take this on January, 8. So the Trump mean might only get a couple weeks delay here, before they have to decide whether or not then go to the Supreme Court, if they lose at the appeals court.

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