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Ketanji Brown Jackson Says She’s ‘Prepared’ If The 2024 Election Winds Up Before The Supreme Court

If, as expected, the 2024 election winds up being close, the results may wind up in front of the United States Supreme Court, which would then be forced to rule on who won, much as they did in 2000, declaring George W. Bush president instead of then-Vice President Al Gore based on a few hundred controversial ballots in the state of Florida.

Is the high court ready for such a scenario? According to Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, she’s pondered such a scenario and is “as prepared as anyone can be.”

Speaking with Norah O’Donnell of CBS News, according to HuffPost, Jackson explained her thoughts on the matter.

With a laugh, Jackson flipped the script on O’Donnell, saying, “Let me ask you, are you prepared for all of the news cycles that you’re getting as a result of this election?”

“Um, no,” the host replied.

“No, exactly,” Jackson said. “I mean, I think there are legal issues that arise out of the political process. And so, the Supreme Court has to be prepared to respond — if — if that should be necessary.”

Justice Jackson also weighed in on the high court’s controversial ruling in July that a president has immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. Jackson dissented in that decision, warning that it “breaks new and dangerous ground.”

“In your dissent, you wrote that, ‘The court declared for the first time in history that the most powerful official in the United States can, under circumstances yet to be fully determined, become a law unto himself.’ Sounds like a warning,” O’Donnell noted.

“You were concerned about broad immunity?” O’Donnell inquired.

“I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances. When we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same,” Jackson responded.

The 6-3 decision was crafted by the six conservative members of the court, with the three progressive justices, Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissenting, arguing that giving such total immunity to a president makes him accountable to no one, much like a king.

 

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Stephen King Goes Viral With Brilliant Clapback To Monday Supreme Court Ruling

Bestselling novelist Stephen King is furious with the United States Supreme Court for their Monday ruling which granted immunity to convicted felon Donald Trump for any “official” actions he committed while serving as president.

The 6-2 decision from the high court is being slammed by many who are concerned it will allow U.S. presidents to get away with murder if they can prove their actions were done as part of their official duties.

In postings he made on Twitter, King slammed the six conservative justices who provided the failed ex-president with blanket immunity.

“In the name of ‘originalism,’ Trump’s Supreme Court has taken a wrecking ball to the Constitution,” King wrote.

Later, King added,

“Thanks to the Supreme Court, the next president will have the powers of a king.

“That’s not what the founders intended. Quite the opposite.”

And then there was this from King: “Overturning Roe [vs. Wade over abortion rights] took power from women. Today’s decision takes power from all of us.”

According to Newsweek, the first post has garnered 1.2 million views while the second stands at over 3 million views.

King got plenty of support from others on social media, too.

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The SCOTUS Immunity Ruling May Actually Wind Up Being A Nightmare For Trump

While Monday’s 6-3 ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that a president has immunity from prosecution for “official acts” was widely seen as a huge win for convicted felon Donald Trump, the court’s decision could also wind up being a nightmare for the disgraced ex-president, according to legal and political experts.

Attorney Bradley Moss explained on Twitter that while Trump’s attorneys may think their client is now immune from prosecution in the multiple pending criminal cases against him, it also means that Trump is more vulnerable than ever when it comes to how he can be treated.

“The Supreme Court just gave Biden unequivocal immunity to order the military to take action against Trump. Today. Right now.”

The Department of Justice could also order the immediate arrest of Trump on suspicion that he’s working for nations hostile to the national security of the United States or part of a larger domestic terror organization that attempted to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021.

Such a finding from the DOJ would then allow for Trump to be held without bail until it can be determined whether he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our allies. That would be a death knell for the Trump 2024 campaign and likely lead to his defeat in the November election.

Speaking of the 2024 election, the high court’s decision could also come back to bite Trump politically, according to CNN commentator and former Obama administration adviser Van Jones.

“The more you look at it, the worse it looks,” Jones said. “When you put it all together, basically, the Supreme Court said in the past week, no rules for the powerful, no rights for the powerless. So if you’re homeless, you can be thrown in jail for the crime of not having enough money to get a hotel room, but if you’re the President of the United States, you can commit an undetermined number of crimes under color of law and get away with it. This is not good.”

Jones added, “I’m telling you, this is going to backfire politically. Because what I’m seeing from the left now, if you thought people were discouraged by what happened last week with Biden’s performance, they are now outraged and terrified that Donald Trump is going to get in office and be a complete madman dictator.”

“So this is — politically, this is a gift to the left, though it is a blow to the country,” he concluded.

How sweet it would be if the right-wingers on the Supreme Court, in an effort to protect Trump, wound up setting the stage for his downfall.

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Terrified Trump Begs SCOTUS To Give Him Total Immunity As Court’s Decision Looms

Later today, the United States Supreme Court is expected to finally hand down its decision on whether or not convicted felon Donald Trump has total immunity from actions he took while in office, including his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

According to Politico, “How the court answers the immunity question could determine whether there remains even an outside chance that Trump will face a jury on those charges before Election Day. No matter the outcome, the ruling will be a landmark: It will be the first time the high court weighs in on whether a president can be criminally prosecuted for actions he took while in office.

“’We’re writing a rule for the ages,’ Justice Neil Gorsuch said at the April oral arguments in the case.”

Based on a posting he made Sunday on his financially-troubled Truth Social site, the disgraced former president is worried about what the court will decide shortly after 10 a.m., writing, “It should be a STRONG IMMUNITY, where proper decisions can be made, where our Country can be POWERFUL and THRIVE, and where Opponents cannot hold up and extort a Future President for Political Gain,” he added. “It is a BIG decision, an important decision, a decision which can affect the Success or Failure of our Country for decades to come.”

He added, “We want a GREAT Country, not a weak, withering, and ineffective one. STRONG PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY IS A MUST!”

A ruling in Trump’s favor could wind up being a mixed blessing, as it would also grant immunity to President Joe Biden, who could then have the ex-president arrested and imprisoned indefinitely. Theoretically, he could also invalidate the results of the upcoming election and declare himself president by fiat.

No matter what the high court rules, it’s clearer by the day that Trump must be defeated at the ballot box this November and then have to face the bar of justice for his many illegal actions.

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Pete Buttigieg Burns Down Martha-Ann Alito For Being A Bigot

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg put conservatives on notice today that there’s a world of difference between a flag that celebrates the LGBTQ community and the ones referenced by Martha-Ann Alito, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in support of the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

Speaking with CNN’s John Berman, Buttigieg said, “I’m often reminded that the most important thing in my life, which is my marriage, and my family and the two beautiful children that my husband Chasten and I are raising that that marriage only exists by the grace of the single vote on the United States Supreme Court that expanded our rights and freedoms back in 2015 and made it possible for somebody like me to get married.”

“And, you know,  Supreme Court justices have an unbelievable amount of power and, and by the nature in the structure, the Supreme Court, there’s no supervision over that power,” Buttigieg added. “They are entrusted with it literally for as long as they live. And part of that trust is we expect them to enter into those enormously consequential decisions that shape our everyday lives with a sense of fairness.”

“I also hope that most Americans can understand the difference between a flag that symbolizes you know, love and acceptance and signals to people who have sometimes feared for their safety that they’re going to be okay. And insurrectionists symbology, I’ll just leave it at that,” he noted.

In secretly recorded audio, Mrs. Alito groused, “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag, because I have to look across the lagoon at the pride flag for the next month. And he’s like, ‘Oh, please don’t put up a flag.’ I said, ‘I won’t do it. Because I’m deferring to you but when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m gonna send them a message every day.'”

She also said she wanted to fly several flags that would antagonize the LGBTQ community.

“I’ll be changing the flags. They’ll be all kinds. I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself. I made a flag. It’s white and has yellow and orange flames around it. And in the middle is the word ‘vergogna.’ ‘Vergogna’ in Italian means shame — vergogna. V-E-R-G-O-G-N-A. Vergogna.”

As if trying to explain her bigotry, Mrs. Alito claimed her German heritage meant she didn’t take any shit from anyone.

“I’m German. I’m from Germany. My heritage is German. You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you. And there will be a way — it doesn’t have to be now — but there will be a way they will know. Don’t worry about it. God — you read the Bible. Psalm 27 is my psalm. Mine. Psalm 27, the Lord is my God and my rock. Of whom shall I be afraid? Nobody.”

German, huh? Hmm. Weren’t the Nazis German, too? Does Mrs. Altio sympathize with what they did?

Here’s the video of Buttigieg’s interview with CNN: