Apparently True and Justice means little to Democrats
Democratic lawmakers are sounding the alarm over what they see as conservative justices and judges tipping the scales in favor of former President Trump
The two cases accuse the former president of attempting to subvert the 2020 election and obstructing justice related to his handling of classified documents.
Some Democratic senators suggest conservative justices on the Supreme Court are playing politics by slow-walking special counsel Jack Smith’s case related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, so that there’s no chance of it reaching a verdict before Election Day.
And they are perplexed that Judge Aileen Cannon has let Smith’s case on Trump’s handling of classified documents get bogged down in complex and arcane legal arguments over the Presidential Records Act, which prosecutors say has nothing to do with the case.
The bottom line is that Democrats doubt that two of the strongest criminal cases against Trump, including the more serious charge that he sought to overturn the results of the last presidential election, will reach a verdict before November.
Democratic senators felt exasperated by last week’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court, during which multiple justices in the conservative majority appeared open to the Trump legal team’s arguments that the former president should be given broad immunity for anything related to an official act, such as communicating to his supporters on Jan. 6 before they marched on Capitol Hill.
“It would be really outrageous if the court were to find that presidents are immune for all their conduct in office,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
“We have a system where, as many have already said, the whole idea was to create a democracy and not have an all-powerful king that could violate the laws of the land with impunity, and God help us if we open the door to presidents being able to commit crimes with impunity,” he added.
