'Let's not read anything into that': Trump's Supreme Court case spurs replies from experts

'Let's not read anything into that': Trump's Supreme Court case spurs replies from experts
Supreme Court 2022, Image via Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

Legal analysts are up in arms Wednesday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court revealed it would accept arguments for Donald Trump's New York state case, which some say should have gone to the New York State Supreme Court instead.

Trump's legal team also submitted a request to the top court in New York, however.

Trump is demanding that the Supreme Court intervene in his sentencing, which is scheduled for Friday, January 10. However, the incoming president claims he's immune from the guilty verdict and enjoys the same immunity protections as a president-elect.

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Former impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen told CNN on Tuesday night, "It was SCOTUS that enabled Trump to dodge accountability for his criminal wrongdoing. Now SCOTUS has Trump's NY appeal—& they may be willing to help him again."

Writing for MSNBC's opinion pages, former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance had one big question. "This morning, Trump asked SCOTUS to delay his sentencing in a NY state court on Friday. The Judge has already said he won't sentence Trump to time in prison. So why is Trump fighting so hard to keep it from happening?"

Harvard emeritus Professor Laurence Tribe, who taught Constitutional Law, commented, "Predictably, President-elect Trump has asked the Court he has carefully stacked to accord him all the privileges of the office he has yet to occupy. The legal flimsiness of his request isn’t likely to matter much with these Justices. Hope I’m proven wrong, but I’m not optimistic."

Legal reporter Cristian Farias commented, "I really hope Sonia Sotomayor, the circuit justice for the jurisdiction that covers Manhattan, and a former assistant district attorney herself, can inform her colleagues that this is not how any of this works. If anyone can knock some sense into them, it’s her. Maybe."

Senior Lawfare editor Roger Parloff politely asked, "Let's not read anything into the fact that Trump's SCOTUS docket number is ... 666."

Indeed, Trump's docket number in this matter is 24A666. It's the number often associated by Christians as the sign of the Antichrist, cited in The Book of Revelation 13:18.

MSNBC legal analyst Kristy Greenberg posted the GIF of the character Charlie from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," outlining his conspiracy theories. She remarked, "Judge Cannon trying to find a way to delay Trump’s NY sentencing from Florida."

Reuters crime and justice reporter Brad Heath pointed out: "Can Donald Trump ask the courts to delay his criminal sentencing, then turn around and argue that the delay means it's too late and the case must be dismissed? You bet he can."

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President Donald Trump ratcheted up the pressure on Monday's peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas by threatening that "massive bloodshed will follow" if a deal is not struck soon.

"There have been very positive discussions with Hamas, and Countries from all over the World (Arab, Muslim, and everyone else) this weekend, to release the Hostages, end the War in Gaza but, more importantly, finally have long sought PEACE in the Middle East," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.

"These talks have been very successful, and proceeding rapidly," he added. "The technical teams will again meet Monday, in Egypt, to work through and clarify the final details."

The war between Israel and Hamas has raged for nearly three years. Trump has sought to end the conflict, which he considers to be the eighth war he could have stopped since entering office in January.

"I am told that the first phase should be completed this week, and I am asking everyone to MOVE FAST," Trump added. "I will continue to monitor this Centuries old 'conflict.' TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE OR, MASSIVE BLOODSHED WILL FOLLOW — SOMETHING THAT NOBODY WANTS TO SEE!"


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President Donald Trump issued a "striking" national security memo recently that would allow the administration to go after American citizens using the same tools the country uses to protect itself from foreign adversaries, according to one analyst.

Ryan Goodman, a national security expert and law professor at New York University, discussed the recent memo, called NSPM7, on a recent episode of "The Bulwark Live" with Bill Kristol, the outlet's editor-at-large. Goodman was visibly stunned as he recalled some of the impacts Trump's memo could have on American citizens.

"It's using the national security apparatus in such a way that's focused domestically; one can only assume that Steven Miller is empowered by this," Goodman said. "It's connecting it up with national security frameworks and then imposing it domestically."

The directive calls on the National Security apparatus to go after anti-fascist groups on the left. It also calls on law enforcement to "[investigate] all participants in these criminal and terroristic conspiracies — including the organized structures, networks, entities, organizations, funding sources, and predicate actions behind them."

Goodman argued that the language sounded too familiar.

"I have to assume that [Miller] wrote a large part of it," Goodman said. "I mean, it just looks like it comes out of his mind in a certain sense and his rhetoric around this."

President Donald Trump's announcement that he is contemplating spending $20 billion to bail out the Argentine soybean industry stunned some of his supporters at home, but a historian says the payment may serve an ulterior purpose.

Trump said last week that he is considering sending $20 billion to support Argentina's soybean economy, even as Republicans in Congress say Trump's tariffs are hurting American farmers. Some observers questioned the move because of Trump's close ties to Argentine President Javier Milei.

Frederico Finchelstein, Argentine historian and chair of The New School's history department, discussed Trump's bailout on a recent episode of the progressive podcast, "The Majority Report."

"All of these things are connected because Milei is one of the latest representatives of the wannabe fascist trend that Trump represents globally, and Milei actually has been an admirer if not an imitator of Trump on so many levels," Finchelstein said. "I have often called him a mini Trump, in the sense that he wants to behave like his master."

Finchelstein argued that Trump and Milei seem to have similar ambitions.

"We are looking not only at a kind of political style, which, in my view, is wannabe fascist," Finchelstein said. "[Javier Milei] wants to leave behind key democratic controls and procedures on one hand, and a kind of global corruption on the other, which might be supported or not by cryptocurrency."


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