a little good news

[mellowtigger]

Here are the opening sentences from the NPR article.

"A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that Donald Trump does not enjoy broad immunity from federal prosecution, a major legal setback for the former president, who said he will appeal. They wrote that for the purposes of this criminal case, "former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant."
- https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1223904739/trump-immunity-ruling

At this point, there is no benefit for the U.S. Supreme Court to pick up the case. Anything they decide would escalate the already bad tensions (although the linked survey is from 2019, not 2023) in the USA.

The USA has no king. Yay for us.

Comments

[wispywillow]

I really hope SCOTUS declines to hear it. The D.C. Court of Appeals took extra time to write up an air-tight decision, certainly with the partisan SCOTUS in mind. *fingers crossed*