According to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, as much as the conservative-dominated Supreme Court may want to show deference to Donald Trump over his claims of presidential immunity the justices will look at the big picture and how that decision will impact them
In a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, Kirschner explained that the court should dismiss the Trump legal team’s “BS claim that a president can commit any and all crimes while in office with absolute immunity from prosecution.”
“IF the Supreme Court is an honest broker of the law (I know, I know), it will also refuse to review Trump’s BS immunity claim once it’s rejected by the D.C.appeals court,” he wrote. “Please remember this: if the court bestows upon Trump absolute immunity, thereby putting him out of reach of our nation’s criminal laws, the Supreme Court will have demoted itself to a second-class branch of government, as Trump could then commit any crime he wished in efforts to undermine the authority of the Supreme Court.”
Adding that the “Supreme Court LOVES its supreme status,” he suggested tyhe nation’s highest court “will NEVER relinquish it by ruling that a president is above the law. So, if nothing else, take heart in the Supreme Court’s allegiance to . . . itself, and its own supreme status.”
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Explaining that the law is clear enough that Trump should not win if he follows through on an appeal he added, “If all else fails, the court WILL deny Trump’s BS immunity claim motivated by its own sense of self-preservation.”