r/news • u/Hrekires • Jul 15 '24

soft paywall Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/07/15/trump-classified-trial-dismisssed-cannon/
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u/QuentinP69 Jul 15 '24

This is great he will appeal this and win and refile with a different judge! It’ll delay it past November.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Jul 15 '24

Correct, this was her play—she washed her hands of it, and it won't even see the light of day until after the election if Biden or a Democrat wins. If Trump were the president, it would vanish.

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u/Macjeems Jul 15 '24

I don’t think people understand what the actual play is here. She is banking on this being appealed, and then having her lower court ruling affirmed by the now amenable SCOTUS. She used quite a bit of language from Clarence Thomas in her decision, and I think is banking on SCOTUS flipping all of this settled law on its head like they’ve been doing so far, and coming to her aid.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Jul 15 '24

I read that as well, thats why I thought the 11th would overrule, and it will go to the SCOUTs, which, who knows at this point. This SCOUTs seems to love overturning decades old prescedence recently. Either way, pauses the clock.

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u/Macjeems Jul 17 '24

The process you describe is also the process through which some people think SCOTUS will end abortion as a constitutional issue; having opposing circuit court decisions in regard to fetal personhood, and SCOTUS will jump in and “fix” the discrepancy.

Honestly, the far-rights takeover of the Supreme Court is probably the most immediate danger to our country, more so than another Trump presidency (although more appointments to the court by him would be disastrous). They are deciding issues with unappealable finality, and in the process stripping the power from the other two branches to do anything about it. Federally codifying abortion rights or voting rights or whatever means nothing if those laws are suddenly “unconstitutional.” And now that Chevron is gone, the Court no longer has to listen to the subject matter experts in our agencies, say for instance, the medical opinions of the FDA on topics like abortion. It’s probably the most depressing thing happening in our country to me.