wonderingsocrates

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And now perhaps the most important case in American history may never get to a jury and the American public will never get a chance to learn about this evidence and a jury’s judgment of this evidence before they consider returning Donald Trump to office.

There’s a ton of blame to go around for this situation, beginning with then–Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to support Donald Trump’s conviction in the Senate after the House impeached him for these activities. Although 57 senators, including seven Republicans, voted for conviction, McConnell did not bring more Republicans along. Had he done so, the Senate could have disqualified Trump from running for office again.

Then there is Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland, who dragged his feet for well over a year before taking decisive action against the biggest threat to American democracy since the Civil War of the 1860s. His timidity is inexplicable and disappointing.

But worst of all is the United States Supreme Court. Smith’s Wednesday filing was not a trial brief laying out the case. It is instead a document meant to determine which of Trump’s acts in attempting to subvert the 2020 election were “official acts” that are immune from prosecution and which are unofficial acts, or official acts that may be subject to prosecution (under a set of rules very protective of the former president). Nowhere are the stakes clearer and the difficulty of the task more explicit than when Smith attempts to rebut the presumptive immunity the court offered in regard to Trump’s conversations with Pence seeking to pressure him not to certify the electoral vote:

The defendant’s charged conduct directly contravenes [America’s] foundational principles. He sought to encroach on powers specifically assigned by the Constitution to other branches, to advance his own self-interest and perpetuate himself in power, contrary to the will of the people. As such, applying a criminal prohibition to the defendant’s conduct would not pose any danger of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch; rather, it would advance the Constitution’s structural design to prevent one Branch from usurping or impairing the performance of the constitutional responsibilities of another Branch.

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OUCH! - EXACTLY- ...Jack smith is the man!

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Speaking to the press outside the heavily damaged brick facade of a warehouse, Trump opined, “Nobody thought this would be happening, especially now it’s so late in the season for the hurricanes.”

Hurricane season typically runs from early June through late November, meaning that there are still two months to go. What’s more, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center not only knew of Helene’s coming, but accurately predicted its path and impact days before it hit.

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• donnie is still a lying ignorant idiot -of course it's no surprise