Former President Donald Trump's niece scorched the Supreme Court in her latest email blast over their decision to significantly limit how special counsel Jack Smith can prosecute her uncle for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The decision, which split 6-3 along partisan lines, held that presidents enjoy immunity for some official acts, but not for unofficial acts, and turned the matter back over to District Judge Tanya Chutkan to work out which charges and evidence must be excluded under this standard — which all but closes the door on holding the trial before the election, but does potentially mean a blockbuster hearing that airs out all of the evidence against Trump ahead of the trial.
"When the U.S. Supreme Court took up Donald’s idiotic claims of absolute immunity, most of us thought it was a cheap and underhanded political tactic meant to delay Donald’s trial," wrote Mary Trump.
Now, that seems like the better outcome, she said.
"Instead the corrupt supermajority has come very close to granting him the powers of a king; that he has, in effect, gotten away with the crimes against America that he’s already committed; and, if he gets back into the Oval Office, he’ll be able to commit even more serious crimes with impunity," she said.
For those reasons, Americans must do everything they can to stop him, she said.
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"The justices who are trying to make my uncle a king are traitors, equal to the traitors who attempted a coup against our nation and who have been spreading the Big Lie in order to undermine the American people’s faith in free and fair elections," she continued. "With this immunity decision, they have launched an attack on our most important ideals."
All of this amounts to a continuation of the Jan. 6 coup attempt, she said, and the start of the next one; she said they gave Trump a "rubber stamp" for her uncle's "worst impulses and abuses."
Forcing the justices to adopt a binding code of ethics doesn't cut it anymore, Ms. Trump added — Congress needs to add at least five seats" onto the court, diluting the power of the far-right justices who rewrote the rule of law.
