Authorized specialists primarily anticipated the Supreme Court docket to disclaim Jack Smith’s request for quick arguments on Trump’s immunity claims, however Trump might not get the lengthy delay he wishes.
Chris Geidner tweeted:
My take: That is pushing issues a bit, however the DC Circuit’s arguments are from January 9. That appellate court docket has been very fast in resolving these instances; I suppose we’ll be again at SCOTUS on the finish of January. Not what Smith wished, however not an enormous delay. (See additionally: No recognized dissent.)
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) December 22, 2023
Andrew Weissmann wrote:
Not stunning given the pace of DC Circuit evaluation (argument at 1/9), BUT the issue is that S Ct will pace up evaluation AFTER the DC Circuit guidelines. If not, there are too some ways Trump can delay the appeals course of and delay any pre-election trials. https://t.co/Tr7xb2VwCP
— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) December 22, 2023
The Supreme Court docket dodged the query for now, however as Weissmann famous, the massive query is whether or not they’ll proceed to dodge the query for the foreseeable future. This argument will come earlier than the Court docket once more, in all probability after the Circuit Court docket guidelines towards Trump.
It is extremely probably that the court docket will rule towards Trump as a result of he has misplaced each immunity declare he has made up to now, however the level of the immunity claims isn’t that Trump wins. Trump is making an attempt to postpone this matter till after the election.
The delay technique tells observers quite a bit about how Trump and his legal professionals see his probabilities of beating the case. If Trump thought he had a very good protection, he would rush to trial and be discovered not responsible earlier than the 2024 common election marketing campaign begins.
Trump has not triggered his protection to collapse for now, nevertheless it stays to be seen whether or not he’ll have the ability to recreation the justice system till Election Day 2024.
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