"The legal landscape in three of the four criminal cases against Trump continues to shift in his favor this week, following the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the presidential immunity appeal in the D.C. election interference case, creating at least a two-month delay for Trump."
"It shouldn’t be possible for the 2024 election to take place before a jury decides whether Donald Trump committed crimes in an effort to steal the 2020 election. As citizens, we have legitimate interests in learning the truth before the election. There is still some hope this could happen, but it hasn’t been a great week."
"[SCOTUS] will prematurely hear a completely frivolous claim that if sustained, would allow any POTUS to commit crimes with almost unbridled immunity. This will delay his federal 1/6 trial indefinitely. A political and traitorous decision from a totally discredited SCOTUS."
"Speaking with MSNBC's Ari Melber, The Nation's Elie Mystal condemned the high court as 'Republican theocrats in robes,' suggesting the justices' goal is to put Trump back in office. …
"They're trying to make Trump win. The whole point of this ruling is for Trump to win."
"The three Trump Justices along with 'Justice for rent' Clarence Thomas and the reactionary Samuel Alito have deprived voters of seeing Trump tried before the 2024 election for his attempted coup. And by doing so, they have brought our democratic Republic closer to ending by enabling a fascist, wanna be dictator to win in 2024."
"The Court has lost its way. It has breached its trust with the American people. It won’t recover from this wound, regardless of how it rules on Trump's claim of immunity. …
It was corrupt because Clarence Thomas did not recuse himself. It was reprehensible because it credits an absurd legal theory. It undermines the rule of law and expresses contempt for the American people."
"It exalts procedure over substance at a time of constitutional crisis.
The current Court is broken beyond repair. It must be enlarged so that a new majority of justices willing to uphold the Constitution can reform an institution that has been captured by the Federalist Society and MAGA extremists."
"I don’t care how you cut it, this is the terrifying result you get when you elect a raving fascist lunatic like Donald Trump and he gets the opportunity – aided and abetted by right wing puppets in the Senate and their right-wing corporate puppeteers – to appoint a gaggle of stary-eyed authoritarian moonies to the highest court in the land."
"DONALD TRUMP HAS JUST SCORED ANOTHER BIG WIN in his legal strategy of delaying any accountability for his alleged crimes until after the 2024 election—which he gambles will return him to the White House and safely beyond the reach of justice. …
It didn’t have to put its thumb on the scales of justice this way."
"This order is a colossal victory for Trump, and could potentially allow him to evade criminal responsibility for his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election altogether. Trump’s goal is to delay his trials until after Election Day. Should he prevail in that election, he can then order the Justice Department to drop all federal charges against him."
“The Supreme Court heard and decided Bush v. Gore in THREE DAYS. THAT was expediting a case of national importance. The Supreme Court apparently now thinks expediting means THREE MONTHS. Clearest evidence yet that SCOTUS is corrupt and broken.”
"The only reason to handle this the way they did is to, at best, play Trump’s delay game and, at worst, set the stage for one of the most indefensible, corrupt decisions (or outcomes) in US history. …
Let’s not beat around the bush, decision by the Supreme Court to hear the Trump immunity case is outrageous and, at its heart, fundamentally corrupt."
"The fact that the Supreme Court is even considering this case is horrific. …
There should be no question whether a president — any president — is above the law; however, the Supreme Court’s actions yesterday suggest they believe otherwise."
FTA: "“Brown v. Board of Education? Gone. Gideon v. Wainwright? Finito. Miranda v. Arizona. Poof! Just mention the code SCOTUS before your oral arguments and we’ll take it from there. Act soon, because this opportunity is running out!”
Today in Labor History February 25, 1986: As a result of ongoing protests, Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos begged President Ronald Reagan for advice. Reagan told him to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled the nation aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule. He and his family, and an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), arrived in Hawaii the next day. They brought 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos’s hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government. Their son, Bong Bong Marcos, is the current president of the Philippines. His vice president is Sara Duterte, daughter of the Philippines last president, the violently repressive Rodrigo Duterte, who oversaw the assassinations of well over 1,000 street children and alleged drug dealers. Under Ferdinand Marcos, there were over 3,000 documented extrajudicial murders, 35,000 documented victims of torture and tens of thousands of people imprisoned.
I don't know why people keep talking about #corruption in Ukraine, when the #US speaker Mike Johnson is literally on the russian payroll, steered by the most corrupt American of all times, former president and Putin's lapdog, rapist traitor Donald J Trumpin. 🤷
"Scientific-misconduct accusations are leading to retractions [...] But there’s no telling how widespread errors are in research: As it is, they’re largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers.
A program launching this month is hoping to shake up that incentive structure [...It] will pay reviewers to root out mistakes in influential papers,"
Member of the Cherkasy City Territorial Commission for Military Service Examinations was detained for taking a $7.7k bribe for declaring someone unfit for military service. The suspect received the bribe for preparing medical documents with fake diagnoses and ensuring a positive decision. The issue of the preventive measure is currently being resolved. #Ukraine#Corruption
This isn’t even the 1st time we’ve learned that a person has been #indicted after the #GOP cited his claims. Nor…the 1st time a person has been accused of ties to #RussianIntelligence after the GOP leaned on their version of events.
The…characters #Republicans have sought out to substantiate Pres #Biden’s purported corruption…has come to include half a dozen #convicted & accused #criminals, + mult people the #UnitedStates govt has linked to #Russia, #corruption & subverting American #democracy.
"Trump was not only the most corrupt president in any of our lifetimes (and possibly ever), he is also likely the most corrupt prominent businessperson in America today. The reason his criminal conduct is so urgent is that if he wins another term in the White House, his corruption is only going to get worse."
~ Paul Waldman
But let's talk about Biden and his age and the Democrats as the problem.
FTA: "Prisoners, asylum seekers, drug addicts and other marginalized people are the involuntary early adopters of every form of disciplinary technology. They are the leading indicators of the ways that technology will be ruining your life in the future. They are the harbingers of all our technological doom."