The Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in on a question that will decide if the former president faces charges for efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in on a question that will decide if the former president faces charges for efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to review a fast-tracked petition asking if Donald Trump can use his status as a former president to claim immunity from criminal charges related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election.

The order came only hours after Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the justices to expedite consideration of Trump’s presidential immunity claim in his D.C. prosecution for election interference leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. The decision is not an agreement to hear Smith’s case, but rather an agreement to review his petition faster than normal.

  • Chickenstalker
    931·
    1 year ago

    Immunity while head of state? Sounds like a monarchy to me.

    • DevCatOPEnglish
      601·
      1 year ago

      And if SCOTUS says the President is an absolute monarch? What would you want Biden to do next? The GQP just never thinks this through.

      • Ensign_CrabEnglish
        58·
        1 year ago

        And if SCOTUS says the President is an absolute monarch? What would you want Biden to do next?

        Use his powers as monarch to remove the justices that gave him such power, then abdicate back down to president.

        • rockSlayer
          321·
          1 year ago

          It would be in the most Biden way possible too. Dissolve the current court, instate mildly progressive liberals, and order a reruling to remove his power

          • IphtashuFitzEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Could we also have him set term limits on the new court and get rid of lifetime appointments?

            • rockSlayer
              4·
              1 year ago

              Ah, but then it wouldn’t be the Biden way. He goes just far enough to be disappointed he didn’t go all in

          • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
            22·
            1 year ago

            Those sufficiently mild, respectable new justices would have to immediately step down if they were themselves uncorrupted

        • rockSlayer
          52·
          1 year ago

          Can’t believe that this became an international faux pas. Reagan was absolutely a spawn of Satan, but come on. Unless “We begin bombing in 5 minutes” was broadcasted live (the report says it was an audio test) there’s no way it should be read as anything other than gallows humor.

      • chakan2English
        96·
        1 year ago

        The GQP absolutely thought this through…Biden either won’t have the balls to do anything about this, or he croaks trying to actually accomplish something.

        This is the checkmate they’ve been working at since Bush Jr.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 year ago

      Not at all… Trump wasn’t born into his position. This is fascism, friend.

      Edit: I mean, he was born into money, though…