2024 Elections

Former President Donald Trump said he was appealing a ruling that would see him removed from the Illinois ballot.

In a ruling on Wednesday, Cook County Judge Tracie Porter disqualified Trump but put her decision on hold until Friday, allowing appeal.

A boast by Donald Trump last week that he is making inroads with Black voters due to his legal problems is getting side-eye from pollsters who claim there is little to no evidence at all of his claim.

During his speech before a South Carolina gathering of Black conservatives the multi-indicted Trump told the crowd, "...a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against," he claimed, before adding, "I think that’s why the Black people are so much on my side now," he added later in the speech. "Because they see what’s happening to me happens to them.”

Taking the longer view of the Supreme Court's decision to take up the question of Donald Trump's presidential immunity, one legal scholar suggested that will give him time to plot his revenge if he should be re-elected.

University of Baltimore School of Law professor Kim Wehle wrote in a recent column for The Bulwark that she agreed with many in her profession that there was no reason for the court to intercede in a manner that helped the former president delay his trials.

Added to that, she wrote, the court in effect put its "thumb on the scale" by keeping juries from looking at evidence that Trump not only obstructed justice by hoarding sensitive government documents at Mar-a-Lago but also examining his part in fomenting violence during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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As she noted, the assist from the conservative-dominated court has put in motion what she called a potential legal "Armageddon."

"I expect that whatever opinion(s) emerge will be nuanced, and possibly fractured, which will give Trump’s legal team new arguments for dismissing parts of the indictment—further delaying the trial date through the summer, and possibly past the election," she wrote, while also stating it will give Judge Aileen Cannon leeway to foot-drag even more than she already has.

With that, she predicted the court may have opened the door for Trump to be re-elected and seek revenge using his appointees to the DOJ to go after his tormenters.

Referring to the "terrifying use of the Justice Department to prosecute the people behind these cases if Trump wins in November," she argued that "the Supreme Court has moved America a bit closer to that sort of Armageddon."