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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Supreme Court is going to help Trump delay everything until after the Inauguration...
...then he will be immune from sentencing. And he can make sure that no Report ever sees the light of day.
Thanks to the US Supreme Court.
It has been reported that Trump made a personal phone call to Samuel Alito on Tuesday. He wants his help. Alito lied and said it was some question about employment for a clerk or something to that effect. An obvious lie.
So, they will not have to rule on the matter at all. They will only need to delay it for 10 days and then there will be no sentencing by the state of New York. He will be immune.
But he will not be happy with that decision alone. He doesn't want the Special Counsel Report to be made public either. He wants them to delay that also.
If that indeed does happen, what options would Joe Biden have? Since the Executive Branch is in charge of the Justice Department, could he order his Attorney General to release the Reports immediately? After all, the Executive Branch is an independent Branch of Government from the Legislative and Judicial Branches and at the present time, the Reports are in the jurisdiction of the Executive Branch.
Release the Reports and tell the Supreme Court and the Republicans in Congress to go to hell.

2naSalit
(95,914 posts)It's fitzmas all over again.
kentuck
(113,312 posts)I hope I am wrong.
Sotomayer's call. Guess we will see.
kentuck
(113,312 posts)If the majority of the Court agrees to hear the appeal, doesn't it happen?
Jrsygrl96
(235 posts)Each region goes to a specific Justice. NY goes to Sotomayor.
kentuck
(113,312 posts)Is there someway to ignore it?
rampartd
(1,741 posts)it is a requirement of the appointment of special counsel and entirely internal to the executive branch;
but, of course, merrit garland
Beringia
(4,939 posts)Unladen Swallow
(491 posts)I think you're right.
HereForTheParty
(697 posts)The report won't have a lot we don't already know or suspect.
a kennedy
(32,961 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬
Haggard Celine
(17,112 posts)That report should be released right away. If none of them will allow it, we are in even worse shape than I thought, and my outlook about this shit is already depressing.
Mark.b2
(528 posts)already think hes a felon
gab13by13
(26,891 posts)Was for someone who worked with Alito 14 years ago.
kentuck
(113,312 posts)He is lower than whale shit.
Quiet Em
(1,624 posts)I highly doubt the Supreme Court will grant him a stay.
kentuck
(113,312 posts)Then they could just wait it out.
However, I hope you are right. Although it would be near meaningless, since we already know he is not getting any time, or community service, or punishment of any kind. He has already gotten off.
Quiet Em
(1,624 posts)then the con is sentenced in the morning
And it's not meaningless. The con will be a convicted felon.
kentuck
(113,312 posts)Does that mean they have "stayed" the decision. That would only mean they have agreed to delay it, the way I see it.
Quiet Em
(1,624 posts)and it's highly doubful they would do that.
elleng
(138,724 posts)per msnbc, 6:57 p.m.
CONFIRMED, 5 - 4, Chief and Amy C-B in majority.
B.See
(4,815 posts)would not be unprecedented. Texas has done so on several occasions.
So yeah. Release the damn reports (or let them mysteriously 'leak').
Fuck the SC.
chouchou
(1,665 posts)...people a little sad and even poisonous snakes get extremely depressed....
kentuck
(113,312 posts)...and Trump's appeal goes down 5-4!