A Deeply Fractured US

[brihard]

The case against Trump in Florida has been dismissed. Seems it has to so with the irregular appointment of Jack Smith. More info to come as this story is minutes old.
CBS Story

It’s a nonsensical decision without firm legal grounding, contrary to much established case law. This lets Smith appeal the dismissal to the 11th circuit, which has not been kind to Judge Cannon on prior appeals. That should see the case recommenced under a different judge who isn’t so transparently playing games. DOJ may take the opportunity to refine the scope of its indictment to account for the SCOTUS immunity ruling.

Alternatively, Smith could re-file the indictment in DC on a narrower selection of charges. Either way this matter is decidedly not dead.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Anyway, the appeal courts will figure it out, that is their job.

If it's appealed. The circuit might be sympathetic to the SC, but the USSC might not. The prosecutors might end up rolling the dice on an answer the people who favour SCs (as currently constituted) don't want to hear from the USSC. Smarter to just re-file what they can in DC.

 

[kkwd]

It’s a nonsensical decision without firm legal grounding, contrary to much established case law. This lets Smith appeal the dismissal to the 11th circuit, which has not been kind to Judge Cannon on prior appeals. That should see the case recommenced under a different judge who isn’t so transparently playing games. DOJ may take the opportunity to refine the scope of its indictment to account for the SCOTUS immunity ruling.

Alternatively, Smith could re-file the indictment in DC on a narrower selection of charges. Either way this matter is decidedly not dead.

Yep, for sure. Except I can't reliably comment on the decision being without firm legal grounding, I'll leave that to others.

 

[Lumber]

Not really. This has been low-key, but it has been out there for a while. The theory of the objection is straightforward. It also isn't something that was just engineered to extricate Trump - it drew the support of people who have wanted to end special counsel appointments unless and until Congress passes legislation granting authority to make them.

Yes it is. She's a Trump-appointed sycophant who abused her position to support Trump.

 

[kkwd]

If it's appealed. The circuit might be sympathetic to the SC, but the USSC might not. The prosecutors might end up rolling the dice on an answer the people who favour SCs (as currently constituted) don't want to hear from the USSC. Smarter to just re-file what they can in DC.

Like you said, "it's shaping up to be quite the week."

Now some people are going to be shocked that Nikki Haley pledged her delegates to Trump and will endorse him and appear at the RNC on Tuesday.

 

[Remius]

Events…

 

[kkwd]

Yes it is. She's a Trump-appointed sycophant who abused her position to support Trump.

OK, it's beyond her now and we'll see how it plays out.

 

[Lumber]

OK, it's beyond her now and we'll see how it plays out.

That is the only silver lining in this.

 

[kkwd]

That is the only silver lining in this.

Makes no difference to me, I'll still have my chickens and bees to tend to no matter the outcome.

 

[kkwd]

Trump's VP pick will occur in about 2 hours. Prepare for fun and frivolity in this odd pursuit called politics.

 

[Remius]

lol. The media is going to be like a beagle in a parc with hundreds of squirrels to chase.

Shooting, VP pick, Florida case, Convention, Biden address….

 

[Brad Sallows]

Yes it is. She's a Trump-appointed sycophant who abused her position to support Trump.

All the more reason to put the issue in front of the wise learned objective Democrat-appointed justices at the USSC so they can talk sense into the other Trump-appointed sycophants and definitively enshrine the AG's power to appoint SCs.

[Add: Here (Reason.com) is an article which provides some backstory on how the USSC came to be the way it is. The candidates for Trump's nominations were not screened with a view to particular landmark cases, but rather with a view to specific ideas about constitutional separation of powers. Any issue presented before the court which offers an opportunity to re-evaluate encroachment of one branch on another, and particularly to reign in executive branch overreach, risks a result contrary to what supporters of a more powerful executive branch would like.]

 

[Jarnhamar]

Is this person just a victim of the media narrative or would they truly celebrate the assassination of the leading candidate for POTUS?

She probably ordered some Thomas Crooks t-shirts already.

 

[kkwd]

VP pick is JD Vance.

 

[suffolkowner]

VP pick is JD Vance.

I wonder if he'll fare as well as the last one?

 

[Pelorus]

MAGA will need to pivot, "hang JD Vance" doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well.

 

[kkwd]

I was expecting fun and frivolity but not gallows humour.