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Had to drive his RV to pick up bag o cash from Crow.
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Booooooo! Well, I tried.
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Post by hoyajinx on Apr 26, 2024 15:36:46 GMT -5
That’s all fine and good, but the Court absolutely knew what it was doing when they delayed hearing the case for two months. Given how politically the Court has acted, they deserve no benefit of the doubt (that a right leaning publication is giving them). These questions for the lower court could be well under way by now. It’s naive to think they were doing anything other than kicking it down the road so they didn’t have to decide on something that could be applied to Trump before the election.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 26, 2024 15:58:39 GMT -5
Of course you cannot reduce a SCOTUS argument to a twitter/X posting. However, having started my DOJ career in the Conwtitutional Torts Section, Civil Division and having asserted both absolute immunity and qualified immunity defenses in a variety of contexts defending federal officals from postal clerks to, in one instance, former President Nixon, the choice that SCOTUS made in the question presented in granting certiorari, was, in my view overly broad. While I understand that SCOTUS normally seeks to address a narrow issue presented, I can understand why it may have taken a more expansive view of the issue presented here. However, another principle is to only address the narrow issue presented as the law is fundamentally a conservative instrument and need not or should not address issues not actually presented. A benign interpretation of SCOTUS's approach to this oral argument is that all nine justices may agree that no absolute immunity attaches to a President who engages in a conspiracy to subvert a fair and free election. In any event, this appears to be, perhaps the prevailing view of manhy legal pundits. On the other hand, none of the "conservative" justices (except for Justice Barrett) seemed to want to engage in any discussion of the actual conduct of the former President during the argument. Curious. As an aside, I actually represented the CO, XO and senior enlisted NCOs of SEAL Team Six back in the late 1980s when I was in the Con Torts Section at DOJ so it was a bit humorous to hear SEAL Team Six referenced both at the DC Circuit and at SCOTUS. Michael Dreeben also successfully defended DOJ's civil RICO suit arguing before the DC Circuit and did so without notes! He is truly a brilliant advocate. I was at the argument because I was the lead counsel on the only Big Tobacco defendant found not liable - the Liggett Group Inc, i.e., L & M cigarettes, as they demonstrated that they had withdrawn from the enterprise.
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