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.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    321·
    7 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

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 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

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      7 months ago

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