Once again, the Supreme Court is meddling in our elections. Not too long ago a Republican court ordered the state of Florida to stop counting the people’s votes for president while their Republican candidate happened to be in the lead. Even though recounts are a very common occurrence. They included in their opinion the warning that their decision should not be considered precedent, and not be applied to any other future case.
Now the Supreme Court is again placing its thumb on the scale. By agreeing to hear the absurd claim of total presidential immunity from the law, but postponing arguments for 12 weeks after the appeal, the court is delaying justice for Donald Trump’s horrendous actions. They also refused Jack Smith’s request to preemptively hear the case in December of last year. Justice delayed is justice denied.
At the time of writing this, we still haven’t heard their ruling. It’s been five months since they first had an opportunity to hear the case. Compare this to the case to keep Trump off the Colorado ballot: It took less than two months from the time of Trump’s appeal to declare a ruling. They can move fast when motivated.
Supreme Court justices are given lifetime appointments, in part, to keep them from making partisan rulings. It doesn’t seem to be working.
Michael Garing
North Huntingdon