Notices by “especially a female” 🌴🥥 (trabern@mas.to)

Hey, no surprise that Trump wants out of the scheduled debate now.

His legal teams have drilled him to not talk to a prosecutor.

*At least not without a ‘Queen for a day’ agreement.
#CrimLaw #FifthAmendment.

Dark Brandon gonna feel out that official acts immunity.

Make no mistake, the MAGA are going to be coming for VP Harris, and it will be ugly.

Bring it. They have to come through me. And you. And everyone absolutely electrified to elect her.

This is real. This is wrong. Beyond disturbing.

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Just to recap, the guy who can’t shut up about how the 2020 election he lost was rigged just was convicted of rigging the 2016 election he won.

I just want us all to take a moment and reflect that it has been a couple of women that brought you this at great personal cost.

Of all the things that could bring down Trump, it has been a couple of stubborn women he felt entitled to that did it.

Can I just say how amazing it is to have Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court?

While the white side of the room was chattering of concern not to neuter the presidency, she was all like, hold up, this is the most powerful person in the world, we don’t want to incentivize it into a “seat of criminal activity.”

She brought back the discourse to the job to work for the people of the US.

5: The case delay may be all Trump accomplished in SCOTUS.

6: Hypo from Justices at start that got thoughtful traction:

If a President appoints an ambassador (clearly a core Art II function) in return for a million dollar bribe (clearly criminal). Does the prosecutor have to excise the pure presidential authority part (appointment) from charges and trial due to immunity?

The SCOTUS argument on immunity just gaveled out. Many hours of arguments.

#lawfedi #lawprofessor #scotus

2: None of the Justices, and especially true of the conservative wing, wanted to talk about the Trump charges. They abruptly interrupted to keep the advocates from going there.

A couple observations:

1: It is clear there will still be a Jan 6 case against Trump after SCOTUS rules. No possible outcome results in stopping the prosecution altogether.

3: Sotomayor and Jackson both have very high level understanding of the perils of any form of immunity, and the reasons for the distinction between absolute and qualified immunity. And the insight that all 9 Justices also enjoy a broad immunity (and why)

4: At least some number of Justices on the right wing will rule that there is some kind of immunity for core Article II functions (veto, pardon, recommendation clauses mentioned) and maybe even further proceedings to excise core functions (Trump dealings with DOJ mentioned) from indictment, but no blanket immunity against the Jan 6 charges.

Trump team has filed its reply brief in the insurrection clause appeal.

They argue, I kid you not, that there is an “insurrectionist president loophole” that only Washington and Trump qualify for.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24408477-20240205133618970_23-719-trump-v-anderson-petitioner-reply-brief-on-the-merits-1

He’s telling us loud and clear he feels entitled to rule, law be damned.

Trump warns of ‘bedlam,’ declines to rule out violence after court hearing https://wapo.st/4aMWTEh

Sunset Santa Fe

The Colorado Supreme Court ruling has landed. Holds Trump is DQ’d under 14th as an insurrectionist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/us/politics/trump-colorado-ballot-14th-amendment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

At this point, Starbucks is going to sue Rudy for damages for carrying that cup to court