Daily Take: Will the Most Corrupt Supreme Court in History Assist the Trump Coup?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
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SCOTUS introduced what will be at least a 130-day delay in Trump’s trial. They won’t even hear arguments until April 22. Democracy be damned...
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| 0:00.0 | Will the most corrupt Supreme Court in history assist the Trump coup? |
| 0:05.0 | At least four members of the most corrupt Supreme Court in American history have decided to help Trump delay his trial for trying to overthrow the government of the United States. |
| 0:15.0 | Just like in 2000, when five Republicans on the court ignored Al Gore's probable later to be |
| 0:20.4 | found definite win in Florida to put Bush in the White House. |
| 0:24.0 | Today's court is doing as much as they can to help Trump win this November. |
| 0:30.0 | In a Hail Mary attempt to push his trials beyond the election hoping he'd win with Putin's help and could then pardon himself and gut the DOJ, |
| 0:38.0 | Trump's attorney's filed a claim that his efforts to overturn the 2020 election were official acts and that all |
| 0:43.7 | presidents have absolute immunity while in office and for the rest of their lives |
| 0:47.8 | thereafter. Nobody took it seriously. Even the appeals court, his bid went to pointed out how absurd it was. |
| 0:56.3 | Could a president who ordered Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, Judge Florence Pan, |
| 1:01.1 | one of the appeals court judges asked Trump's lawyers and not be subject to criminal prosecution. |
| 1:06.0 | The answer from Trump's attorney, John D. Sour, was that Trump couldn't be prosecuted unless he's first impeached, which, as noted, is absurd on its face. |
| 1:15.0 | Under this logic, President Biden could today order Trump assassinated and dare Congress to impeach him for it. |
| 1:21.0 | But absurd is nothing new to the six bought off Republicans on the Supreme Court. |
| 1:27.0 | As I laid out in detail in the hidden history of the Supreme Court in the betrayal of America, |
| 1:31.0 | Republicans on the court have for almost a century taken the side of America. Republicans on the court have for almost a century |
| 1:34.1 | taken the side of autocracy over democracy, billionaires over workers, and |
| 1:38.0 | corporations over consumers and the environment. They tell us that corporations are persons with rights under the Bill of Rights. |
| 1:45.0 | They tell us that when morbidly rich people are massive corporations bribe politicians |
| 1:50.0 | that that's merely their First Amendment free speech right. |
| 1:53.5 | They ruled that American women and girls must live under rules established by a 17th century |
| 1:57.6 | witch-burning judge. |
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