A stinging rebuke
SCOTUS to Trump: No.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request from former President Donald J. Trump to intervene in the litigation over documents seized from his Florida estate.
I was wondering about that yesterday. Would even an extremely right-wing court with three out of nine members owing their places there to Trump really be on his side over theft of top secret documents, refusal to give them back, lying about them, threatening people over them? It seems not.
The court’s order, which was a sentence long, was a stinging rebuke to Mr. Trump. There were no noted dissents, and the court gave no reasons, saying only: “The application to vacate the stay entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Sept. 21, 2022, presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the court is denied.”
I suppose Virginia “Gini” Thomas is fuming.
Mr. Trump asked the court last week to step into the tangled case, saying that an appeals court had lacked jurisdiction to remove about 100 documents marked as classified from a review of the seized material. The Supreme Court’s action means that the special master in the case, and Mr. Trump’s legal team, will not have access to those documents.
I hope the sting is very painful.
H/t Mike Haubrich
At some point, as ideological and partisan as they are, they at least want deniability about being Trump’s lackeys. They’ll do the bidding of the religious right, of their god as they interpret him, and corporations, but they do have lines over which they will not step.
Heh. Poor Donnie, discovering that everyone he’s surrounded himself is as disloyal and treacherous as he is.