@MMA and @Allyn thank you for your analysis. I was glad to see the rule of law upheld but the courts move slowly. I believe NYS have been waiting for this day and may already have a grand jury ready to empanel but it won’t be before the election. It’s only three months away. I do believe the orange one and his gang of maurading morons will be indicted and a few will go to jail, but not for a couple of years. It’s important that we as light workers don’t letup for a moment with our quest for peace and justice. It is more important than ever for a blue wave. The REPS are already saying we need more conservative judges.
Right now, and hopefully for the next three months, the GOO has so many critical items on his plate that he can’t screw up. We all know he will since he is becoming more unhinged everyday. The Dems need to keep hitting him hard with policy’s. He has no policies except to make as much money as he can before he gets kicked out. If he debates Biden, which I have doubts he will, it will only be once and only on one of HIS networks. I can see a debate like the first one in 2016. First one candidate (in GOO’s case soft ball questions that he will ramble on) then hard hitting questions for Biden. If I remember right that debate almost ruined a Matt what’s his face career.
old MoscowMitch is back in Ky campaigning in the rural areas, but things are so bad here that he might just need a miracle to pull it off. I keep remembering a headline I read on the internet today. Mitch is only powerful as long as he has a gavel. Take away the majority leader title and he is just another old wrinkled blow hard. That’s a nice thought.
Do you mean to say that if Rump is (God forbid!) re-elected and his taxes reveal that he is a Russian operative, is heavily involved in organized crime and has not paid taxes in decades that he is protected by immunity for 4 more years? Surely that cannot be so...
No more Goya for me and my home!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/business/goya-foods-boycott-trump/index.html
Absolutely not.
Don't worry. The Supreme Court said that Trump is NOT immune from criminal investigations while he is in office.
That is why he is so upset.
Had the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, the New York DA would have had to have waited until after Trump left office before he could even investigate him. So if (God forbid) Trump won re-election, then the DA would have had to have waited until after 2024 (or later if Trump somehow won the argument to get another term even though he is currently limited to two) to even investigate him.
Now, Trump will delay this as much as possible. He will argue new things and try to send the case back to the Supreme Court. But I think that Roberts is sick and tired of Trump at this point. If Trump tries again, I suspect the Supreme Court may decline to hear the case at all, which would hurt Trump.
So the New York DA can get his hands on Trump's taxes. This will eventually lead to more evidence coming forward and more Trump supporters being indicted and possibly convicted.
So if Trump does his usual stupid "I am above the law" thing and pardons Roger Stone next week (which he will, because that is Trump and he has to buy his friend's silence by keeping him out of jail), remember that (1) if any evidence from Trump's taxes points to Roger Stone, then he can be tried on those matters, and since it is a state charge and not a federal charge, Roger Stone cannot be pardoned, and (2) Trump pardoning Stone next week can be construed as a "continuing" charge (conspiracy), which can ultimately be overturned, in that the US Constitution does not allow a President to grant a pardon on "continuing" crimes, only past crimes that are completed.
So when we learn that Trump pardons his criminal friend next week, don't think that Trump has the last word on the matter. Trump and his criminal friends will ultimately pay the price for all the harm they done. If not in this life, it will be the next, which will be even harder for them.
Is it because if Trump is gone, then we won't have the Blue Wave necessary to remove the GOP from the Senate? Will people be "too complacent" because the imminent threat is gone? Is it that we haven't "suffered enough outrage" as a collective that we need to suffer some more, because some people are on the fence about making this a better world....and we need these people to succeed?
My gut has been saying that if he backs out, a Pence vs Biden (or a Haley vs Biden) run is much, much closer. Not insurmountable in either regard, but I think a lot of Republicans who hate Trump will jump to Pence, and more of them who hate trump would jump to Haley. Without a decisive referendum in November, I'm not certain we can get the collective energy where we need it to be.
With what the Lincoln Project is doing, I think they'd continue the attacks on Pence for being complicit in the decision making process. I'm not certain they'd continue supporting Biden if they scrapped the administration entirely.
I go back to the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt when I'm where you're at -- "I can do just about anything for 10 seconds." Only 10 seconds and less than 4 months to go. Hang in there! The light is coming!
Thank you so much for your response. Forgive me for being so legally ignorant but since Rump's taxes will likely provide a host of major criminal activities (not the least being the possibility of payoffs/financing by Putin & Co.), is this not extremely relevant to the upcoming election? Doesn't the public have a need and a right to know? So why has the Supreme Court decided not to reveal this information to Congress or to the public for now ...when it has such a profound bearing upon the upcoming election, on voting behavior and on potentially vital national security issues?
I understand that the Prosecutor will be entitled to see this information for now and that Rump does not have immunity even if he were re-elected...but this will have no impact on actual voting behavior prior to the election. It seems as if the Public and Congress are unnecessarily being kept in the dark about matters they desperately need to know about given the office Rump holds and the potentially vital national security issues involved...if it can be proven by his finally released taxes that Rump is financially dependent upon/indebted to Russia or China or Saudi Arabia or Turkey, surely the public needs to know this BEFORE they step in the voting booth. What am I missing here? Is there some legal procedure that has constrained the Supreme Court from allowing the Public & Congress from gaining immediate access to this vital information?