Last week, the Supreme Court turned down special counsel Jack Smith's plea to rush Donald Trump's appeal straight to the High Court so that it can be resolved quickly.
According to columnist Ron Brownstein, the Supreme Court isn't stupid, they know exactly what Trump is trying to do, they simply have to choose whether or not to be complicit.
Political analyst Julian Zelizer began the conversation by saying that Trump's goal isn't to win but to delay. If he can delay past the 2024 election, then he can demand that his attorney general stop his prosecutions in 2025.
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"As long as the case is resolved before the election, that is the key, really," said Brownstein. "Trump's goal is to have it not be resolved. We see in polling that it may sound incredible, given how much information is out there, but there is a significant slice of voters that say that a conviction might matter to them more than an indictment for Trump."
He explained that people like Chief Justice John Roberts and the rest of the Supreme Court justices "live in the real world. They know Trump is trying to push this out as far as he can, so it does not resolved before the election. And they have a choice to make: whether they want to be complicit in that or not."
He said that Roberts is desperate for a unanimous decision on things like this that speak to the future of the power of the presidency, but it's a long shot. He said that the 2000 Bush v. Gore decision was the beginning of distrust of the High Court in the eyes of the American public.
"I think he would like to avoid that," Brownstein continued. "Maybe the way to do that is in essence join these two rulings. I'd also point out that, you know, the idea that — clearly, the indictments of Trump affect the nomination. Joe Biden's approval rating is under 40 percent, and the two of them are running even. The idea there is no resistance, no cost to Trump for his behavior isn't supported by the facts."
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Supreme Court knows what Trump is doing, and can choose whether to be complicit: columnist youtu.be
