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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy did John Roberts agree to take this New York case in the first place?
Just to delay it? By what's been already six months and likely to last past the election.
Seriously, 9-0 tells me there was no constitutional debate at all. I smell a Republican rat.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)Goodheart
(5,334 posts)issue an indictment, and then the USSC question could have been the important one: whether or not sitting presidents can be indicted.
This was BULLSHIT.
Demsrule86
(68,593 posts)a good decision.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Move forward...
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)If the Court didn't resolve this issue, it would have remained up in the air. Trump would have continued making this bogus argument - and it could have found its way into other circuits and cases, creating a mess, as well.
I think the Court was probably right to step in and resolve it, once and for all.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)case.
Not sure it's "done".
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)in my work, I have to testify in court often, I see judges who seem to want a case to go in a certain directions sometimes say to a lawyer "now if you were, let's say, citing Jones v. Smith, then I would see that as valid"...
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)And at least the Court shut down one argument.
No matter what the Court did, someone would complain about it. I think they handled this as well as they could.
Lock him up.
(6,933 posts)... got reported (or IF they were) and if so, were they declared as "Legal fees" and deducted to (partially) avoid paying taxes, which would concord with Cohen's answers in his interrogation.
It is very specific. No need to go through thousands of pages of shenanigans. That can come later...
That could go fast (or not). Find the 1st crime (committed while in Office), and issue an indictment (of Individual 1).
LOCK HIM UP!
MAKE JUSTICE GREAT AGAIN
rsdsharp
(9,186 posts)It takes 4 votes to grant cert. Admittedly, there are more than 4 conservatives on the court, but Roberts didnt agree to take the case even if he voted to grant cert. There were at least 3 other votes.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)That is what the argument was with the SC, not what was actually being heard in the NY case.
Everyone needs to calm down, this is bad for Trump and allows the lower court hearings and the house hearings to continue. Otherwise they would have stopped.
Polybius
(15,437 posts)They wanted it delayed until impeachment proceedings were over, otherwise it would have come out before the trial.