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BootinUp

(49,020 posts)
Mon Jul 1, 2024, 08:48 PM Jul 2024

'It's Like Christmas': Team Trump Stunned by Massive Supreme Court Immunity Win

Donald Trump spent years being bitterly mad at a Supreme Court majority and a conservative legal movement that did not work hard enough to help him steal the 2020 presidential election. But ahead of the 2024 election, the court seems to be making up for his troubles. The high court has issued a series of rulings boosting Trump’s presidential campaign — with none more consequential than its immunity decision Monday.

“It’s like Christmas,” a conservative attorney close to Trump tells Rolling Stone on Monday afternoon.

According to three sources familiar with the situation, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Trump’s expansive presidential immunity arguments was a far bigger victory for Team Trump than they ever expected. But the former president and his inner circle aren’t content to stop at victory-lapping. Plans are already in motion to use this new, historic court decision as a legal shield to help a potential second Trump administration implement his extreme policy agenda with less concern for rules and laws, sources with knowledge of the matter say.

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In its decision on Monday, the court also explicitly held that Trump’s efforts to have allies like Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark in the Justice Department help to overturn the election represented official acts and thus qualify for “absolute immunity.”

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Furthermore, two of the sources familiar with the situation tell Rolling Stone, several Republicans and MAGA diehards who have been closely advising Trump on policy for a potential second administration had another reason to celebrate on Monday. In the hours after the court ruling came down, these Trump loyalists privately noted to one another how this Supreme Court-blessed interpretation of presidential immunity for “official” acts could be helpful to them in making a possible second Trump term as aggressive and as extreme as possible, no matter what laws there are on the books.


Full article https://www.yahoo.com/news/christmas-team-trump-stunned-massive-214619226.html

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'It's Like Christmas': Team Trump Stunned by Massive Supreme Court Immunity Win (Original Post) BootinUp Jul 2024 OP
It's like Christmas? BOSSHOG Jul 2024 #1
If you say so. Nt BootinUp Jul 2024 #2
Christmas in July. Already shoving his present in Judge Merchan's face. Irish_Dem Jul 2024 #3
Stunned? Yeah. Aristus Jul 2024 #4

BOSSHOG

(39,836 posts)
1. It's like Christmas?
Mon Jul 1, 2024, 08:51 PM
Jul 2024

Their marching orders were to act surprised. They knew the present was under the tree. When you appoint people to the highest court who have no integrity teaming up with those already there todays ruling can not be a surprise.

Irish_Dem

(57,371 posts)
3. Christmas in July. Already shoving his present in Judge Merchan's face.
Mon Jul 1, 2024, 09:07 PM
Jul 2024

"Look Look at my brand new get out of jail free card."

Aristus

(68,328 posts)
4. Stunned? Yeah.
Tue Jul 2, 2024, 09:36 AM
Jul 2024

Now how are they going to be able to cry and whine that the system is rigged against them?

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