A new Marquette Law School poll finds the Supreme Court’s approval rating stands at 40%, underscoring the public’s stagnant view of the institution as the justices grapple with cases concerning Donald Trump’s political and legal fates.
Justices Reject Appeal from Three House GOP Members
“The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021,” the AP reports.
Justices Reject Sidney Powell’s Appeal of Sanctions
“The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Sidney Powell and other lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump over $150,000 in sanctions they were ordered to pay for abusing the court system with a sham lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in Michigan,” the AP reports.
Trump’s Judicial Appointments Are Transforming the Courts
Jeffrey Toobin: “Judges on the Fifth Circuit, many of them Trump appointees, are attempting to transform the law and challenge the very structure of American government.”
Waiting on the Supreme Court
With Donald Trump’s filing late yesterday, the Supreme Court could announce as early as today whether it will take up his immunity appeal in the federal election interference case.
Threats Against Federal Judges Spike
Reuters: “Serious threats to U.S. federal judges have more than doubled over the past three years, part of a growing wave of politically driven violence.”
Supreme Court Gives Special Counsel a Week to Respond
“Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday told Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith to respond to a request by Donald Trump to delay implementing an appeals court ruling that found he does not have presidential immunity in his federal elections interference criminal case,” CNBC reports.
“Roberts gave Smith a full week, until Feb. 20, to file an answer to the former president’s request, suggesting that the court might take its time reviewing broader questions related to the issue of immunity.”
Trump Faces Deadline to Ask Supreme Court for Delay
“Donald Trump faces a Monday deadline for asking the Supreme Court to extend the delay in his trial on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss,” the AP reports.
“His lawyers have indicated they will file an emergency appeal with the court, just four days after the justices heard Trump’s separate appeal to remain on the presidential ballot despite attempts to kick him off because of his efforts following his election loss in 2020.”
Grand Bargain Emerges in Trump’s Supreme Court Cases
Rick Hasen: “After oral arguments at the Supreme Court in Trump v. Anderson, a grand bargain that appears to make practical sense as a compromise is beginning to come into view: The Supreme Court unanimously, or nearly so, holds that Colorado does not have the power to remove Donald Trump from the ballot, but in a separate case it rejects his immunity argument and makes Trump go on trial this spring or summer on federal election subversion charges.”
“Depending upon how the court writes its opinion, however, it could leave the door open for chaos in January, if Donald Trump appears to win the 2024 election and a Democratic Congress rejects Electoral College votes for him on grounds he’s disqualified.”
Justices Seem Hostile to Effort to Disqualify Trump
“The Supreme Court appeared to sharply veer against the Colorado voters challenging former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for office,” Politico reports.
“Justices on both the left and right raised pointed questions to Jason Murray, the lawyer arguing in favor of Colorado’s position, about the ‘extraordinary’ ramifications of letting individual states decide whether a candidate is an insurrectionist.”
“The tenor of the questions suggested the court was leaning heavily against those seeking Trump’s removal from the 2024 ballot.”
Just 109 Words
Politico: “Whether Donald Trump can legally return to the White House will come down to how the Supreme Court interprets two rarely-invoked sentences written more than a century and a half ago as a battle-torn nation sought to recover from the Civil War.”
“Those two sentences make up Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, known colloquially as the insurrection clause. And on Thursday, the justices will publicly grapple with their meaning, as the court hears oral arguments on whether the provision disqualifies Trump from holding office again.”
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Trump’s Eligibility
“The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Thursday in an extraordinary case that could alter the course of the presidential election by deciding whether former President Donald Trump’s conduct in trying to subvert the 2020 race made him ineligible to hold office again,” the New York Times reports.
“Not since Bush v. Gore, the 2000 decision that handed the presidency to George W. Bush, has the Supreme Court assumed such a direct role in the outcome of a presidential contest.”
Playbook: “The most common view is that the justices, or at least the conservative majority, hate this case and are enormously uncomfortable with having to decide such a politically fraught issue as whether or not the likely Republican nominee is eligible to hold office. It then follows that they will strive to craft the narrowest possible decision, one that preserves the status quo (Trump can run) without making any groundbreaking precedents.”
An Enormous Test for John Roberts
CNN: “Since joining the bench in 2005, Roberts has built a reputation of trying to steer the court clear of the partisanship that vexes the rest of Washington. But Roberts’ middle-ground, go-slow approach could face its greatest test as the former president and frontrunner for the GOP nomination keeps showing up to a Supreme Court he has helped to fashion.”
“The chief justice, who turned 69 last month, must navigate an unwieldy group of colleagues – some of whom have openly complained about internal mistrust in recent years. Into that fray will now land a novel question of criminal immunity for a former president and one of the most charged election disputes in history.”
Trump Wants the Bush v. Gore Treatment
Rick Hasen: “The Supreme Court will soon be under the microscope like it hasn’t been since it ended the disputed 2000 U.S. presidential election in Bush v. Gore, as it considers not one but now two major cases that each could strongly influence whether Donald Trump will become president again. One of the major criticisms from the left of the court’s opinion in Bush was that it was a ‘one day only’ ticket to hand George W. Bush the presidency without establishing a legal precedent to apply to other cases.”
“And yet Trump is making similar arguments in both of his cases coming before the court, arguing for a kind of exceptionalism that would help Trump, and only Trump, regain power and stay out of jail. If the court cares about its legitimacy and its sagging public opinion, it should not embrace Trump exceptionalism no matter how it otherwise decides these cases.”
Trump’s Can Only Appeal Immunity Case to Supreme Court
Lawfare: “The panel’s most aggressive move was not in the opinion itself, which is straightforwardly correct, but in the judgment that accompanies it on the docket. There, the panel gave the following directions regarding the ‘issuance of the mandate,’ a next step that must take place before Judge Chutkan can resume Trump’s criminal trial…”
“In effect, this means that Trump can only stop the issuance of the mandate by petitioning the Supreme Court for a stay pending a full application for certiorari, not by seeking rehearing either before the panel or the en banc D.C. Circuit.”
Ex-Trump Lawyer Sees Crushing Defeat at Supreme Court
Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb predicted that the Supreme Court will rule unanimously against Donald Trump on his claims to be immune from criminal prosecution.
Said Cobb: “The immunity case should be a 9-0 case on the Supreme Court. It is very clear that the president doesn’t have immunity from criminal prosecution. You are weighing an argument that there is no precedent for, and is found nowhere in the Constitution.”
Trump’s Ballot Eligibility Heads to Supreme Court
“The Supreme Court on Thursday will confront the critical question of Donald Trump’s eligibility to return to the White House, hearing argument in an unprecedented case that gives the justices a central role in charting the course of a presidential election for the first time in nearly a quarter-century,” the Washington Post reports.
“The justices will decide whether Colorado’s top court was correct to apply a post-Civil War provision of the Constitution to order Trump off the ballot after concluding his actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol amounted to insurrection.”
CBS News: “When the nine members of the Supreme Court take their seats on the bench on Thursday, they will be wading into uncharted legal waters to hear a case that could have sweeping ramifications for the 2024 presidential race.”
CNN reports Trump won’t attend the Supreme Court hearing.
Trump Urges Supreme Court to Keep Him on the Ballot
“Donald Trump on Monday urged the Supreme Court to keep his name on Colorado’s ballot, accusing his challengers of pursuing an ‘anti-democratic’ legal case against him,” CNN reports.”
“Trump’s attorneys compared the litigation seeking to remove him from the ballot to anti-democratic efforts in Venezuela.”
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