Tag: presidential immunity

SCOTUS: The Purge and The Joke

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the comon good
Update Monday July 1, 2024: As expected this morning, SCOTUS decided to kick the presidential immunity case back to the lower court of Judge Tanya Chutkan presumably, using a hair-splitting official vs personal acts justification. And in a decision favoring corporations, the court has also performed a purge of governmental agencies and experts’

SCOTUS: The Purge and The Joke

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the comon good
Update Monday July 1, 2024: As expected this morning, SCOTUS decided to kick the presidential immunity case back to the lower court of Judge Tanya Chutkan presumably, using a hair-splitting official vs personal acts justification. And in a decision favoring corporations, the court has also performed a purge of governmental agencies and experts’

SC Cons Ride the “Furious Storm”

Wash DC: "The Seat of Criminal Activity"?
by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy
Yesterday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court for and against "absolute immunity" for presidents took strange turns thanks to the "conservative" justices, the "Cons" as I’ll term them in this post. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson stood out for their attempts to protect our nation’s traditional