They were absolutely ridiculous with The Orange Menace’s Presidential Immunity case.😠😠
Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) posted at 4:35 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Today’s SCOTUS argument was more like a hearing in Congress to design an immunity law for future presidents, with Justice Kavanaugh saying “We’re not taking about the present case” and Justice Gorsuch saying “We’re writing rules for the ages” and Justice Alito joining in (cont’d)
Only Justice Jackson reminded her colleagues that deciding this case was the Court’s task and that it might not be cool to use it as a vehicle for “answering in advance all these abstract questions”!
So much for the idea of each branch staying in its constitutional lane!
(https://x.com/tribelaw/status/1783610736511525148?s=02)
John W. Dean (@JohnWDean) posted at 5:48 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Today’s SCOTUS argument on Trump’s criminal immunity revealed an activist conservative majority that wants to provide presidential immunity. To do so, they must get around Nixon v Fitzgerald (1982), which clearly states there is no criminal immunity for presidents. For example, as stated in Nixon v Fitzgerald, in Chief Justice Burger’s concurring ruling in the 5-4 decision creating civil immunity:
“… there is no contention that the President is immune from criminal prosecution in the courts under the criminal laws enacted by Congress, or by the States, for that matter. Nor would such a claim be credible. The Constitution itself provides that impeachment shall not bar ‘Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.’ Art. I, § 3, cl. 7. Similarly, our cases indicate that immunity from damages actions carries no protection from criminal prosecution.”
(https://x.com/JohnWDean/status/1783629149418270896?t=3lMiua89sg-L0IcfiBA32w&s=03)
John W. Dean (@JohnWDean) posted at 11:32 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
The refusal of the GOP Justices (sans ACB) to address the Trump indictment before them as they rushed to explore in arguments how to immunize him was appalling. They should address the case before them and deny immunity for it was never part of the Constitution and totally unnecessary for a POTUS who does not seek to be a dictator. Donald will empty Fort Knox of our gold reserves after he orders the coup!
(https://x.com/JohnWDean/status/1783715691927134613?s=02)
Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) posted at 11:28 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
I don’t trust this Supreme Court any more than you do. But if you listen to what they’re actually saying today, instead of the “Trump is getting away with it all no matter what” rage-bias that dominates this app, best guess is Jack Smith gets a 5-4 win and Trump goes on trial.
(https://x.com/PalmerReport/status/1783533512441713033?t=sz3yN8oEsVNQwnJpeWVNgw&s=03)
Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) posted at 4:10 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Justice Alito sure does worry about the dangers facing a criminal president once he leaves office after his opponent takes over the White House. Yet he doesn’t seem very concerned about a particular criminal president who recently left office.
(https://x.com/StevenBeschloss/status/1783604438688772306?t=4IIclT4qBYM98cCWbw-Uow&s=03)
Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) posted at 1:37 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
The most important thing to understand about the justices who control the Supreme Court is that they are Republicans first, and judges second.
https://t.co/M7IdUux1Ql
(https://x.com/imillhiser/status/1783566068587315513?t=UXD5dxVzkR_B3nzfPxFvVw&s=03)
Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) posted at 1:34 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
One takeaway from today’s debacle of a Supreme Court argument is Democrats need to start seriously considering packing the Supreme Court.
A Court that would allow Donald Trump to get away with trying to steal a presidential election cannot be trusted.
https://t.co/M7IdUux1Ql
(https://x.com/imillhiser/status/1783565146696163510?t=wANdwf_gRqRI3VC4cwbcTg&s=03)
The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) posted at 7:22 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Hi, the Supreme Court isn’t an actual court. It’s six paid operatives pretending to consider arguments while overturning laws for money.
Hope that helps clear up what happened today.
(https://x.com/TheRealHoarse/status/1783652719179550786?t=uzYH3Zr4SqAWZDWuq1ycQw&s=03)
John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) posted at 1:24 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Supreme Court argument today was shaped by the sense of grievance that Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh all share w/Trump
(https://x.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1783562829175325096?t=EkpK9alNA1RDJY8ALk9jLQ&s=03)
Matter of time? We’re already there.
Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 3:26 PM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
It’s only a matter of time before the colleg protests morph into anti-police, anti-authority movements, with Gaza in the back seat. Why does this alays happen? Because the people in charge over-react, and university trustees demand “action” — aka, bring in the police.
Idiocy.
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1783955811334537625?t=Pbw2S_Y4yqznN-XfdCWH4g&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 0:19 PM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
Great to see everyone in the Times newsroom committing to the bit** (**acting like scorned teenagers b/c Biden won’t grant them an exclusive interview so they’re just going to do a BUT HER EMAILS on his age until he does)
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1783908665600139624?t=TBqIBLFXrERtCgsECHqdPw&s=03)
The sarcasm….
17 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 1:35 PM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
a white liberal whose peer group look like this has entered your mentions to tell you that they have no idea and why white people born from 1965 to 1980 tend to prefer Trump more than any other living generation among white people https://t.co/E5g1YQznGz
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1783927920773181552?t=qYg4YbvDpW1a7EA60t3dfA&s=03)
Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) posted at 8:02 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Catching up on other news, I see the NYT got clowned by Politico and responded by beclowning themselves.
(https://x.com/ElieNYC/status/1783662948600127544?t=JC5zSfeW4k9F5wM9HX9WxA&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 10:54 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
“The conservative judges, or at least most of them, on the highest court in the land are very clearly choosing Trump over our institutions. And none more belligerently than Samuel Alito.”
Good @mtomasky dissection of Alito’s absurdities:
https://t.co/qcxJWXGnvH
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1783887414403924189?t=ZYeDeFD_4w3xXEuJ92IxUg&s=03)
Malcolm ain’t lying. The best he’ll be able to do is a Manager of a Dollar Tree.
Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) posted at 8:31 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Can someone explain to me why gays are leading the charge against the Jews? Is there something about being a flag waving contrarian for people that routinely kill
gays?
Let me give this young man, some advice. Khaywani, you will never again have a paying job in America outside of working for this movement.
Unlike the white kids, your career & education is now considered over. Good luck in life. You’ll need it.
The day there is a terrorist act by his allies he will deny 3 times he ever heard of the #FreePalestine movement.
(https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1783670287218725013?t=A9QOpgMbUaIdVUV9lSnS8Q&s=03)
nope, won’t beg silly ass progressives for votes (@reesetheone1) posted at 4:29 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Race resentment.
This is the moment white america went GOP and didn’t look back:
August 6th 1965. https://t.co/o3ZroecimJ
(https://x.com/reesetheone1/status/1783609214642074054?t=M9lVjNrWRry3qHX5PlyVfg&s=03)
17 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 9:48 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
“I’m committed to the purity and the exact letter of the Constitution!” has never been more of a fatefully terrible lie coming from a white conservative than right now
Jon (@landbutcher) posted at 10:23 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
Constitutionalists only affirm the parts that serve white supremacy. That document has no value to them outside of that context.
17 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 10:25 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
that first phrase
we are here in part because the Constitution began to be interpreted to be fair to Black people, and the white supremacist opposes this development
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1783880038204485755?t=ATT_hwWINwlEgRfJejRX-A&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 8:34 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
“The Republican discourse around the Arizona charges consists of whining that Dems are engaging in lawfare. But if MAGA had an ounce of self-awareness, they’d recall that Trump filed a staggering 63 cases in an attempt to overturn the election results.” https://t.co/i7esyIdlAB
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1783852264097984658?t=zTM53T6aAfh74k1pwpjpCQ&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 11:18 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Let’s be clear: If SCOTUS helps Trump delay the 1/6 trial, voters will likely be making their choice in the next election without hearing any of the new evidence Jack Smith has gathered on Trump’s conduct during the violent effort to overturn the last one.
https://t.co/orUSq3OUWD
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1783531085889958065?t=Nbwd52jru2w2-d5L3S_jxQ&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 9:37 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
The sound of heads exploding in the NY Times newsroom as AG Sulzberger directs his reporters to launch a new round of “WHY WON’T BIDEN GIVE US AN INTERVIEW SO WE CAN DECIDE IF HE IS OR IS NOT TOO OLD TO BE PRESIDENT” stories. Chop chop @AsteadWH
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1783868029593362751?t=9A40Q-YbHJiv3oIhlLUcow&s=03)
David Simon (@AoDespair) posted at 9:43 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
Absent violence against or the physical intimidation of others — fuck speech as a metric, however offensive you find it — if you, a university president, loose police on your own students, or do not oppose such an act by a politician, you are in the exact wrong line of work.
(https://x.com/AoDespair/status/1783869572874989631?t=BSvu63klmoPQLd5q_-LVnQ&s=03)
Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) posted at 11:44 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Trump is the ugliest political figure in our history. There is no bottom. it’s always worst case. Read below.
And today SCOTUS is trying to figure out how to let him get away with everything, including an unprecedented betrayal of the country by a former President.
(https://x.com/SimonWDC/status/1783537639989133514?t=uXfh0TVJtToDlUptwXjIFQ&s=03)
Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) posted at 4:05 PM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
Remember #BlackBlock, the overwhelmingly white Antifa Chaos agents that smashed Starbucks windows to show solidarity with Blacks who didn’t ask them to come?
They have traded the black masks for Kuffiyehs now.
(https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1783240789595672895?t=GOy5fjHjitZjcPtAWJhTSA&s=03)
Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) posted at 11:11 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
WOW: This banger by Sotomayor: “There is no failsafe system of government, meaning, we have a judicial system that has layers and layers of protection for the accused in the hopes that the innocent will go free. We fail. Routinely. But we succeed more often than not. In the vast majority of cases, the innocent do go free. But we still fail. We’ve executed innocent people. Having said that, Alito went through a step by step of all the mechanisms that could potentially fail. In the end, if it fails completely, it’s because we’ve destroyed our democracy on our own.
(https://x.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1783529288878502318?t=QfbeaGpSL47_Dml2Amwtgg&s=03)
Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) posted at 7:58 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Today white christian heterosexual males hold 80% of the positions of power across the fields of business, politics and media. For more than 200 years it was more than 95%. White christian heterosexual males represent less than 30% of the population.
(https://x.com/matthewjdowd/status/1783480699695034794?t=YSk3E1yZI4VpKtUklOngbw&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 11:54 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Jack Smith has amassed an “extraordinarily detailed description” of Trump’s conduct during the insurrection, information that the 1/6 committee could not get. A SCOTUS delay may mean that voters don’t get to hear this info before the election.
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1783539988019179915?t=P-Zml1R1QXanS-ttHVHvog&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 11:28 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Remember, @jonkarl reported that Jack Smith has secured testimony from top advisers to Trump who provided an “extraordinarily detailed description” of what he was doing throughout the day as the mob rampaged.
The 1/6 committee COULD NOT GET THIS INFO.
https://t.co/orUSq3OUWD https://t.co/XybuyVyKaZ
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1783533586257264968?t=wRSYkp1QyW3jWr0OwCCsqA&s=03)
Ragnarok Lobster 🐺 (@eclecticbrotha) posted at 3:35 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
The Founders built a system of government heavily dependent on the honor of the people elected to positions of power. Once you fill those slots with dishonorable people, the whole system collapses.
(https://x.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1783595740813529322?t=D2uhtYevgj7nqy7uPoL31Q&s=03)
Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) posted at 1:31 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
My writeup of the Republican Supreme Court justices astonishing display of loyalty to Donald Trump today is now up.
https://t.co/M7IdUux1Ql
(https://x.com/imillhiser/status/1783564608889901554?t=rjYz9ADO30NOu_dLbpy1Ow&s=03)
Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) posted at 2:01 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
It looks like at least 5 Justices of #SCOTUS are prepared to either grant #Trump immunity for charges relatd to the #January6thInsurrection , or to parse it into minutiae that delays trial until long after the November elections. How? By deciding that POTUS is immune for all “official acts” and everything is “official” unless challenged via impeachment.
(https://x.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1783572024427700320?t=AzCOKNAyI5iPhsszfhIWYg&s=03)
Daniel (@DailyLibber) posted at 8:41 PM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
It’s not lost on me that people protesting chose to show up for a foreign conflict and not civil rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, or really anything that directly impacts their lives and the lives of people around them.
(https://x.com/DailyLibber/status/1783310407349768682?t=t0U8r6PoE45Z2nEM9DB8FA&s=03)
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) posted at 11:05 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Alito: “If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election and knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?”
Michael Dreeben, representing the U.S.: “I think it’s exactly the opposite, Justice Alito. There are lawful mechanisms to contest the results in an election.”
(https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1783527654970236975?t=dywZdrFVZRuEnNJBrO74Zw&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 10:14 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
A doubly strange omission given that Trump has explicitly said he’ll pardon an untold number of 1/6 insurrectionists convicted of crimes. This is not theoretical in Trump’s case. He’s told us that he will do this.
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1783514845058379980?t=L9aUF_YB4rrUklgHeLErAg&s=03
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 10:08 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Jackson: The most powerful person in the world could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes … I’m trying to understanding what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into the seat of criminal activity in this country https://t.co/jC2yihYc54
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1783513418449711438?t=mBQm3iBPHaYkLxExQYD0hw&s=03)
😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 (@aintscarylarry) posted at 11:31 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
If the Supreme Court agrees with trump that presidents have total immunity, then Joe Biden could declare himself the winner of the election right now and arrest the entire Republican party.
(https://x.com/aintscarylarry/status/1783534403727364513?t=Q9mWhdCTQGUE81zuU5QbhQ&s=03)
Ari Melber (@AriMelber) posted at 10:45 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Chilling: Justice Alito seems to seriously suggests U.S. coups will be *more* likely if the prosecution of former Presidents is legal, because then some would be incentivized to stage coups to avoid later prosecution.
(https://x.com/AriMelber/status/1783522635197846016?t=aZKTI7sl9AsjJsWaBLsQTw&s=03)
This is outrageous.
Sam Levine (@srl) posted at 11:47 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Breaking news: The Tarrant county district attorney says it is appealing ruling that threw out Crystal Mason’s 5 year prison sentence for illegal voting. https://t.co/4mPpkg9cPs
(https://x.com/srl/status/1783538289863021028?t=AAjp-MNywBDjC7KE0aQGZA&s=03)
Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) (@ProfMMurray) posted at 0:47 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Prediction: SCOTUS will take a month to write an opinion “for the ages” that remands this back to the district court. With an assist from the SCOTUS be brought into being, the author of The Art of the Deal will have perfected The Art of Delay.
(https://x.com/ProfMMurray/status/1783553328481464660?t=1BKDmVeq-50bwFXHqNVicQ&s=03)
David Simon (@AoDespair) posted at 0:32 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Yesterday, in offering legalisms that will have women die rather than allow established medical protocols to save them, Alito was disingenuous and evil. Today, as a USSC justice seemingly unaware that an independent DOJ so prosecutes, he’s evil, disingenuous, yet also a cartoon.
(https://x.com/AoDespair/status/1783549691365409071?t=GJv13P1Ip1M0ONAg41kDkA&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 7:48 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
This is what annoys me to no end. The media constantly claims it wants to ~ focus on policy ~ and yet the announcements listed below will get very little coverage b/c the “real” issue is Biden’s refusal to grant the New York Times a one-on-one interview. https://t.co/dYuRjoK5zH
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1783478208756592828?t=sqH2cN-_3deOVVpjS0aWvg&s=03)
Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) posted at 11:51 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
The (male) conservative justices lined up to declare that the REAL threat to democracy wasn’t Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, but the Justice Department’s effort to hold him accountable. They were almost entirely worried about the prosecution, not the alleged crime.
(https://x.com/mjs_DC/status/1783539335662276627?t=CKye1HkUNIj4YQthSbEKEQ&s=03)
Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) posted at 11:35 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Just ducked out of arguments. This did NOT go very well Jack Smith’s team. Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh think Trump’s Jan. 6 prosecution is unconstitutional. Maybe Gorsuch too. Roberts is skeptical of the charges. Barrett is more amenable to Smith but still wants some immunity.
(https://x.com/mjs_DC/status/1783535386712510732?t=B0zwEBjOchmzG2sfsi_mqQ&s=03)
Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) posted at 11:36 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
During Barrett’s last questions, it felt like she and Dreeben (representing Jack Smith) were trying to work out some compromise wherein the trial court could distinguish between official and unofficial acts, then instruct the jury not to impose criminal liability on the former.
(https://x.com/mjs_DC/status/1783535678363472193?t=TMyC0mOprH-zSangPYq3uA&s=03)
Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) posted at 11:38 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
It was fascinating to watch Barrett nodding along as Dreeben pitched a compromise that would largely preserve Smith’s Jan. 6 prosecution but limit what the jury could hear, or at least consider. That, thoug, would take months to suss out in the trial court. More delays!
(https://x.com/mjs_DC/status/1783536087484260498?t=vcgDS–cttXVPjnzOybfIg&s=03)
Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) posted at 4:00 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Unbelievable that Supreme Court justices who see forgiving student loans, mandating vaccines, and regulating climate change as a slippery slope toward tyranny were not clear-eyed on questions of whether a president could execute citizens or stage a coup without being prosecuted.
(https://x.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1783602007929942473?t=r2pZe52QGf1K7aFbOHhVgQ&s=03)
Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) posted at 4:01 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
So David Pecker revealed today that both Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders were in a call with him about extending Karen McDougal’s “contract” to keep her quiet about the affair.
Seems like that’s a pretty big deal.
(https://x.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1783602369386950928?t=6utlmwdMKyulTwIGEp6BtQ&s=03)
Armando (@ArmandoNDK) posted at 6:46 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
So the NYT decides the best response to reporting regarding its grudge against President Biden is to issue a press release attacking President Biden.
Thanks for confirming the story of how you have decided to be biased against the President
(https://x.com/ArmandoNDK/status/1783643683906076805?t=0Ww7IQ6nF63tfXLYkldBtw&s=03)
Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) posted at 7:08 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
BREAKING: New reports show the only reason the New York Times said President Biden was too old to be President was because he wouldn’t grant them an interview. Journalistic malpractice.
(https://x.com/BidensWins/status/1783649304483069996?t=160On1o-EIFV_pdY_ZVcvQ&s=03)
Bad Faith ✝️🐴🇺🇲🌻🇺🇦 (@Jeffdc5) posted at 5:01 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
It’s crazy watching republicans try to blame these college mobs on Joe Biden. These people literally hate Joe Biden 😂. Everything is just so stupid.
(https://x.com/Jeffdc5/status/1783617306091716626?t=2ZjPzsJIxz-vp0wNUAWHsw&s=03)
Ragnarok Lobster 🐺 (@eclecticbrotha) posted at 6:51 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
It should be noted that the New York Times opens this with a condescending insult to pretty much everyone who criticizes the New York times before basically attacking the president because he won’t kiss AG Sulzberger’s ass.
(https://x.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1783644936597876821?t=qKHFw7fvByhroRcU1fqPnw&s=03)
Serious Black 🗳 (@NicsuPR) posted at 7:22 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
So the Supreme Court is slow walking the immunity case for Trump. They are TREMENDOUSLY COMPROMISED and we need to expand it and investigate that dirty Thomas.
(https://x.com/NicsuPR/status/1783652902663229899?t=ObVqTnSush7g-v0pQ0Tfkw&s=03)
Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) posted at 4:12 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Something that’s bothering me about the SCOTUS arguments today. The conservative justices seemed to justify granting cert in this case by saying the appeals court ruled that there’s never immunity. But that is not what the circuit court said. 1/
Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) posted at 4:12 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
They said (pp 31): “We note at the outset that our analysis is specific to the case before us, in which a former President has been indicted on federal criminal charges arising from his alleged conspiracy to overturn federal election results and unlawfully overstay his…
Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) posted at 4:12 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
They ruled there’s no immunity IN THIS CASE. That’s a far cry from what SCOTUS thinks they decided. And no one brought that up. Here’s the appeals court ruling: END/ https://t.co/cIwi3Cvprr
(https://x.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1783605089816744194?t=_0m_tGaxN1kf6MOAIgXR5g&s=03)
Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) posted at 7:17 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Because it has to be said, there is no code of ethics for the Supreme Court since Clarence Thomas doesn’t have to recuse himself from immunity case or Jan 6/sedition case due to his domestic terrorist wife Ginni Thomas playing a role in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
(https://x.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1783651550487064701?t=eXz8xr5FgnpY2ltN-CSQQw&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 4:26 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Statement does not challenge the idea the paper’s publisher told reporters to focus on Biden’s age as retribution for denying the paper an interview. Instead, it’s a multi-paragraph whine reiterating that they are pissed off Biden didn’t grant said interview.
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1783608496304373954?t=vZGCB9J1MOKnFcD_mmI2oQ&s=03)
Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) posted at 3:53 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
I’ve read a fair amount of replies to the Politico story from NYT reporters, and to me they’ve only reinforced:
1) How out of touch they are — only journalists care about how many interviews he’s done
2) How special they think NYT is — unable to handle any criticism whatsoever
(https://x.com/admcrlsn/status/1783600248117497939?t=rM-uagTT5gVS81J9d3d60A&s=03)
(((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) posted at 10:11 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
I’ve seen enough: GOP Supreme Court will delay Trump’s Jan 6 case well beyond election. They may even deliver a ruling that ends up dismissing several charges against Trump. We do NOT have a US Supreme COURT- it’s simply an arm of GOP And they are protecting their 2024 nominee.
(https://x.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1783514056764096786?t=Lkrnmp4ZBh9gwvAntioTMw&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 5:40 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
NEW: Takeaways from today’s SCOTUS argument:
1) Donald Trump could win by losing because in this case losing his most extreme argument means further delay of trial — and for Trump, delay is almost as good as an outright win
w/ @joshgerstein
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 5:41 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
2) The conservatives on the court contorted themselves to avoid discussing the specific case in front of them — Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election. They talked about FDR, Nixon and future presidents. But they rarely engaged w the present.
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 5:42 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
3) Alito and Sotomayor, the court’s two ideological poles, engaged in a clarifying colloquy.
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 5:44 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
4) The justices mused about presidential self-pardons, something Trump has claimed the absolute power to do but the court made clear it had never considered.
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 5:46 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
5) Justice Kavanaugh made his leanings against the special counsel clear when he compared their position to what he described “one of the court’s biggest mistakes.” https://t.co/0e7tvIkMMW https://t.co/qR6VHVYs3l
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1783628660815036847?t=SyRIo8wofhzCNJRW_gZkVQ&s=03)
S. I. Porter
Thu, Apr 25, 7:59 PM (14 hours ago)
to me
emptywheel (@emptywheel) posted at 5:47 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
This is the most important point about today. The GOP refused to address Trump’s actions (as @judgeluttig pointed out). Instead, they couched their upcoming apology for a coup about something in a future hypothetical still-existing democracy.
(https://x.com/emptywheel/status/1783628955720749512?t=IMjL-nXJI-9WLCBvdoOLjw&s=03)
Dr. Marina Archer (@DrMarinaArcher) posted at 6:12 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
This was foreseen by the way they “crafted” the paragraph when they took up the case.
The wording of it gave it away back then – it is legal sophistry, and they know it. These are bad faith actors. https://t.co/qx3yOMQeU7
(https://x.com/DrMarinaArcher/status/1783635154793275507?t=cLfCRhfb43Ta19FArVAzAA&s=03)
Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) posted at 11:13 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Kavanaugh, Alito and Gorsuch have also said they don’t want to talk about the Trump case, they just want to talk about the principles in the case. It’s a way of saying they want to rule for Trump while saying it’s just about the principles.
(https://x.com/JeffreyToobin/status/1783529669943259477?t=-IJ9Vmj9YaGtpT3sbVleDQ&s=03)
UH HUH
UH HUH
Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) posted at 2:42 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Relatedly, over the last six months or so at Right Wing political events, I have noticed that assassination comes up more and more. Conservative influencers are telling their audience to expect and prepare for violence in 2024.
(https://x.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1783582372270878885?t=3zj3exAT3MIW3717XR-ZCg&s=03)
Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) posted at 11:51 AM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Let’s not pretend it’s normal that the Supreme Court is deciding whether the president gets to be a dictator.
(https://x.com/MarkJacob16/status/1783539434425655696?t=huFeSZoYJbPaJR2pZeHW6g&s=03)
Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) posted at 6:14 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
If this was a functioning democracy, we wouldn’t be waiting for 2 justices who took secret gifts from billionaires and 3 others appointed by a criminal to tell us whether it’s OK for the president to murder his rivals.
(https://x.com/MarkJacob16/status/1783635797461082172?t=h9yC-4FgVF-81VF9iiP3sg&s=03)
emptywheel (@emptywheel) posted at 5:32 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Shorter Clarence Thomas: Because John F Kennedy was not prosecuted for a coup attempt against Cuba after his Administration, Trump should not be held accountable for a coup attempt in the US.
🤣
(https://x.com/emptywheel/status/1783625096633946583?t=xNVIxWCZvthhPLQoPU445Q&s=03)
About the killing spree in Oklahoma:
Michelle_BYoung (@michelle_byoung) posted at 8:01 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
The other piece of this is that WM murderers get treated better in the media than Black victims. They will make the W murderer the “fun loving dad” while they called George Floyd everything but a child of God. It’s so fvcking racist
(https://x.com/michelle_byoung/status/1783662668433211606?t=-r8KiTaDF95jLZE2zLA5yg&s=03)
Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) posted at 9:18 PM on Wed, Apr 24, 2024:
Former Trump WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson: “Whether you are close to Donald Trump or you worked for Donald Trump, we all owe the American people the truth about Donald Trump…There are a lot of consequences…When you make the break with the Trump world.
But what I fear more is the deceit that Donald Trump will continue to perpetuate if more people don’t stick up for the truth.”
https://t.co/1vEIk9NGJt
(https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1783319526500634636?t=DRQVZCQpkr66177vM1UVhg&s=03)
Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 4:02 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
CNN: Trump just said the Charlottesville protest in 2017 was a ‘little peanut.’ Let’s remember the fact that a woman was murdered there in Charlottesville. Let’s remember there were neo-Nazis and other white nationalists there https://t.co/eRoqQ3jcPV
(https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1783602409144463751?t=CGJjnKVMMZXrcRcHi7ymzw&s=03)
Michelle_BYoung (@michelle_byoung) posted at 8:34 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
While people disparage “DEI” Jackson is a great example of how it actually operates in the real world THE MOST QUALIFIED Black (or woman or POC) person gets their foot in the door of places they always should have been but were historically left out of. Nobody fails up but WM 🤷🏾♀️
(https://x.com/michelle_byoung/status/1783671019472847003?t=reO94DTPE1lfid9DPzHgQg&s=03)
Terry Lee Watkins Jr. 王瑞民💜💙 (@TerryWatkinsJr1) posted at 9:29 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
Black students, especially Black Queer students,
Do not ruin your futures laying your neck down for causes that want to kill us. You are under no obligation.
Stay woke. You will not be able to do things without repercussions like your white friends can.
They will kick you out. https://t.co/fLqFj4Ay5d
(https://x.com/TerryWatkinsJr1/status/1783684780107907429?t=hfcYGsEtyRHkXbvNoLDeag&s=03)
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) posted at 8:00 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
As the Supreme Court weighs Trump’s immunity for his role on Jan. 6, a reminder: Ginni Thomas helped lead the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign to overturn the 2020 election and attended Trump’s Jan. 6 rally.
Clarence Thomas has not recused himself from the case.
(https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1783843552029798581?t=CxgQMNOaJ6JBqTIfFPHVXg&s=03)
2RawTooReal (@2RawTooReal) posted at 7:43 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
Thank you @rolandsmartin for breaking down the TikTok Ban. My thoughts have definitely shifted thanks to this new found information. Our US government has failed to articulate & communicate why they want to force a divestment. (WATCH FULL VIDEO) https://t.co/Bn4wxfhssm https://t.co/Pmvi2Pe3LZ
(https://x.com/2RawTooReal/status/1783839424499077157?t=sbXJ3pITJARfukjX3xuhWg&s=03)
17 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 2:52 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
in the real world, me and most of white Gen-X are generally not on speaking terms
we’re just not
Obama’s election was the last straw for both sides
I roast Millennials up & down on here but honestly, IRL I get along with them much better (usually)
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1783766064033087692?t=FL2W3TuMQPWXWLPzrCCQ_w&s=03)
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) posted at 10:52 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
among the bizarre things in today’s hearing and setting aside the absurdity of giving presidents immunity to prevent them from holding onto power illegally, it’s unreal that a Justice thinks they can make that decision as a matter of policy as opposed to judicial interpretation.
(https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1783705725409145199?t=AUuP-7BM6_rrCoC2rfvORQ&s=03)
Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) posted at 4:16 AM on Fri, Apr 26, 2024:
Ok. As a Black Man I’m NOT seeing a problem with this video.
If you inject yourself into the middle of a tense police action feeling protected, privileged or immunity by uttering the words “I’m a professor” you get what happens here. The police have a job. Yes. Record their…
(https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1783787219754287241?t=4X4LfPi02sax-dpu8ewiTQ&s=03)
NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) posted at 3:16 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
A free and independent press fills a vital role in a democracy. See our statement on @nytimes and our coverage of the president. https://t.co/msymF8x6xa
(https://x.com/NYTimesPR/status/1783590902956499431?t=CyuUGNxVQ2rGghRs41BZog&s=03)
Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) posted at 10:31 PM on Thu, Apr 25, 2024:
They really hate that people see that Biden refuses to kiss their ass & it demonstrates that they aren’t in charge.
(https://x.com/DanaHoule/status/1783700372210491876?t=2EnyZjaSlAW2lmHjulCwwQ&s=03)
It’s absolutely sickening that the Supreme Court has been moving more to the far right and supporting Trump more and more and moving further away from constitutional laws.
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊