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Justice Delayed is Democracy Destroyed
Justice Delayed is Democracy Destroyed
The Overview
Can’t Wait
Can’t Wait
DONALD TRUMP’S SUPREME COURT ALLIES ARE HELPING HIM RUN OUT THE CLOCK.
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The Supreme Court could have kept Trump's trial on track by taking up Trump's immunity claim in December. The justices refused.
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On February 6th, a bipartisan panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously held in a bulletproof 57-page decision that Trump can be criminally prosecuted for his attempted coup.
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Three long weeks later, the Supreme Court accepted Trump's request to review the D.C. Circuit's decision rather than send him straight to trial. The justices delayed the arguments until the very last session of the term.
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With no real legal question to resolve, Trump’s Supreme Court allies have one clear goal:
to HELP TRUMP AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HIS INSURRECTION ATTEMPT UNTIL AFTER the 2024 election.
Stop the Stall
Stop the Stall
The trial can absolutely wrap by late October if the justices do their sworn duty on an appropriate timeline.
The Supreme Court can move fast when it wants to. It took the Supreme Court 16 days to rule in United States v. Nixon, 1 day in Bush v. Gore, and 25 days earlier this year to aid Trump in the Colorado ballot case.
Trump’s insurrection TRIAL still can and must take place before this election.
We cannot let justice delayed become democracy destroyed
We cannot let justice delayed become democracy destroyed
The
Timeline
How We Got Here
How We Got Here
THe Supreme COURT has chosen delay at every turn.
START
Aug. 1, 2023
Special Counsel Jack Smith indicts Trump on election interference charges
Aug. 28, 2023
District Judge Tanya Chutkan schedules trial for March 4, 2024
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendant
OCT 5, 2023
Trump moves to dismiss the case, claiming “presidential immunity”
DEC 1, 2023
Judge Chutkan rejects Trump’s presidential immunity claim
DEC 7, 2023
Trump appeals to the D.C. Circuit
DEC 11, 2023
Smith goes straight to SCOTUS, asking the justices to skip over the D.C. Circuit so that Trump’s trial can “proceed as promptly as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected.”
DEC 18, 2023
D.C. Circuit schedules oral arguments for January 9, 2024
DEC 22, 2023
Cert Denied
Cert Denied
D.C. Circuit hears oral arguments
total immunity
total immunity
(credit CSPAN)
FEB 2, 2024
Judge Chutkan calls off the March 4 trial start date due to ongoing appeals process
FEB 6, 2024
D.C. Circuit issues a unanimous 57-page opinion rejecting Trump’s presidential immunity claim, and gives Trump until February 12, 2024, to ask SCOTUS to review
United States Court of Appeals
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
.
FEB 12, 2024
Trump files his request for review with SCOTUS
FEB 13, 2024
Chief Justice Roberts gives Smith one week to reply
FEB 14, 2024
Smith takes just one day to reply and urges SCOTUS to deny review or expedite oral argument for March 2024
the court goes silent
the court goes silent
then...
Nothing...
Until...
FEB 28, 2024
APR 25, 2024
SCOTUS hears oral arguments
Justice Delayed is Democracy Destroyed
Justice Delayed is Democracy Destroyed
MAY 20, 2024
SCOTUS must issue a decision by this date to ensure Judge Chutkan can start the trial in time.
SCOTUS must issue a decision by this date to ensure Judge Chutkan can start the trial in time.
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The
Polls
The Public Deserves to Know
The Public Deserves to Know
Polling Consistently shows that a MAJORITY of AMericans want this trial to conclude before election day.
3 IN 5
Three in five Americans want a verdict before Election Day in Donald Trump’s election subversion trial in D.C.
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The
Links
Liz Cheney in the New York Times: “It cannot be that a president of the United States can attempt to steal an election and seize power but our justice system is incapable of bringing him to trial before the next election four years later.”
Norman L. Eisen, Matthew A. Seligman and Joshua Kolb at Just Security:
Analysis of alternative timelines for when Trump’s J6 Trial can reach a verdict.
Prof. Kate Shaw in the New York Times:
"[F]or the Supreme Court to fulfill its central role in our constitutional system, it must dispose of Mr. Trump’s arguments quickly — critically allowing for fully informed democratic participation in the November presidential election."
Prof. Sean Wilentz in New York Review of Books:
“This imbroglio is a case study in how dilatory courts can aid crafty lawyers as they use legal doubletalk to delay proceedings. But this time the aid has come from the highest court in the land.”
Prof. Ryan Goodman and Andrew Weissman in The Atlantic:
“The justices should press Trump’s counsel on what possible legitimate reason he has to oppose a speedy resolution of the appeal. And then they should rule with dispatch because there is still time, albeit barely, to vindicate the public’s right to a speedy trial.”
Michael Waldman at the Brennan Center for Justice:
"Voters have a right to know if they are being asked to elect someone who is guilty of the most serious crimes that a president could commit against democracy itself."
Prof. Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissman in the New York Times: "Before Election Day 2024, if at all possible, voters should know if the facts of a case establish that one of the candidates engaged in an elaborate election-interference scheme in 2020."
“[T]his Court is at serious risk of being perceived as attempting to influence the 2024 election in favor of Mr. Trump. It should do everything possible now to avoid that impression, which would be highly detrimental to this Court’s reputation for neutrality and fairness. Time is of the essence.”
Leadership Now Project’s Amicus Brief:
“Given the paramount public importance of this case in the context of the 2024 presidential election, a swift decision by the Court on narrow grounds is essential to avoid further delay in this case.”