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
    92•5 months ago

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

    • @DevCatOPEnglish
      59•5 months 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•5 months 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
          31•5 months 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•5 months ago

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

            • @rockSlayer
              4•5 months 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

          • @[email protected]English
            0•5 months ago

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

        • @rockSlayer
          3•5 months 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.

          • @[email protected]English
            17•5 months ago

            Eh, gallows humor from a random nobody is one thing. Joking about basically ending the world as we know it from someone who literally has the power to end the world as we know it is another.

            This faux pas is certainly not at the top of my list of criticisms of Reagan, but he did deserve some shit for it.

            • @rockSlayer
              6•5 months ago

              You make a great point. But at the same time, there’s so much meme potential

      • @chakan2English
        4•5 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
      4•5 months ago

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

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