I hope all you readers are safe from the wildfires in California. It sounds terrible.
The latest — at the present time, AG Merrick Garland plans to release the Jack Smith J6 report, probably on Friday, but hold back on the documents report. There are still two defendants in the documents case, Trump employees Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who are asking the report not be released. I assume any report not released before Trump takes office will be buried, and all traces of it in the Department of Justice likely destroyed. One assumes Jack Smith is keeping copies. Just for posterity, of course.
In other Trump crime news, today Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop Judge Juan Merchan from issuing a sentence in the hush money case. As reported in Business Insider,
Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the US Supreme Court to block the president-elect’s Manhattan hush-money sentencing, currently set for Friday.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor is assigned to handle emergency applications from New York for the court, and she will get first pass at the application.
Sotomayor, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009, issued a scathing dissent of the high court’s July 1 opinion granting presidents broad immunity from prosecution. The 525-page application filed by Trump on Wednesday morning refers to presidential immunity more than 300 times, and argues that it voids his conviction and indictment.
Sotomayor, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009, issued a scathing dissent of the high court’s July 1 opinion granting presidents broad immunity from prosecution. The 525-page application filed by Trump on Wednesday morning refers to presidential immunity more than 300 times, and argues that it voids his conviction and indictment.
If she is unpersuaded by Trump’s application, she will refer it to the full panel of justices, where he would need a majority 5/9 vote to prevail.
The Court asked for a response by 10 a.m. Thursday from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, so if they have a full panel vote I assume it will be after that. I like David Kurtz’s headline on this — Does The Roberts Court Have Any Dignity Left To Surrender?
In more other news: President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico suggested today that the United States be renamed “Mexican America.”
"Justice Sonia Sotomayor is assigned to handle emergency applications from New York for the court, and she will get first pass at the application"
Maybe she can call in sick today and tomorrow? Those assholes sat on Smith's appeal to the supremes for months, whats a couple more days!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nGsT_qFMBs
I hope Biden declassifies all of the intelligence tying Trump to Putin, MBS, etc and any information on which adversaries got their hands on copies of Trump's stolen documents prior to the FBI raid. Land it like a bomb on Jan 19 as his last official act ("Take That, Roberts!") and then just walk away wearing his aviators like a boss.
525-page application? An example of the maxim, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
I'm not sure the court will be persuaded. The conviction will not involve jail time and it won't keep Trump from assuming office. But I've been wrong.
In more other news: President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico suggested today that the United States be renamed “Mexican America.”
Didn't we lose the Alamo? Seems about right to me.