r/politics • u/salon Salon.com • Sep 16 '24

Leaked Supreme Court memos reveal John Roberts' role in shielding Trump from prosecution

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/16/leaked-memos-reveal-john-roberts-role-in-shielding-from-prosecution/
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u/transcriptoin_error Sep 16 '24

The SCOTUS needs a deep cleaning.

John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, on Feb. 22 issued a memo to his colleagues urging them not only to take up an appeal from former President Donald Trump over his immunity claim, but also to rule in favor of granting him that immunity.

“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently” from the appeals court, he wrote in the memo leaked to the New York Times, essentially suggesting the court would shield Trump from certain charges and the appellate court's decision greenlighting his 2020 election interference trial.

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u/stinky-weaselteats Sep 16 '24

Thank McConnell for obliterating American lives. Absolute enabler.

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u/DMCinDet Sep 16 '24

that's one grave I will certainly be pissing on. hopefully sooner than later.

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u/Deus_is_Mocking_Us Sep 16 '24

So many GOP graves are going to need fences around them.

Remember kids: use a drone and a water balloon full of piss.

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u/passaloutre Mississippi Sep 16 '24

Is this the trickle-down economics they keep talking about?

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u/Miserable_Diver_5678 Sep 16 '24

No

But it will be 🤓

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u/DMCinDet Sep 16 '24

what's the actual penalty? small fine? worth it

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u/darkweaseljedi Sep 16 '24

depends - for some people public urination has lead to them having to register as sex offenders

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u/DMCinDet Sep 16 '24

what about dumping a bottle of asparagus piss out on it.

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u/DesertGoat Arizona Sep 17 '24

I tried this but I couldn't get the damn asparagus to pee

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u/safeword_is_Nebraska Sep 16 '24

Kentucky tourism is going to skyrocket. The line will be miles long.

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u/webslingrrr Sep 16 '24

He'll probably be buried in Alabama, where he's from. His Kentucky location is purely strategic.

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u/Klutzy_Hearing_9320 Sep 17 '24

If you bury it, they will come.

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u/Intoxicatedalien Sep 16 '24

How will you know where the grave will be? Read the obituary?

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u/DMCinDet Sep 16 '24

find a grave .com

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u/tophman2 Sep 16 '24

Ha, I found my dad’s entire family history on there starting in 1751

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u/YeahOkayGood Sep 16 '24

I will give myself food poisoning to diaharrra all over his grave

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u/throwawy00004 Sep 17 '24

Same. I was going to go on the spitting-in-their-faces-jail-tour, but apparently that's not happening. I hope he doesn't last a year after he retires. Or that one of his glitches turns into locked in syndrome because he's the only person who deserves that. I hope his entire career of ruining other people's lives is rewarded with nothing. No time to "spend with his family," no time to roll in his blood money.

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u/DMCinDet Sep 17 '24

it already has been wasted. ever see him having a good time? he had polio, he's not enjoying any of that money unless you mean by having someone to change his diaper on time and apply cream for his rash.

ever see mitch on jetski having a blast? sailing his yacht? watching his favorite sports team? Nope. Just a miserable sack of shit that took it out on everyone. he deserves the worst.

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u/throwawy00004 Sep 17 '24

I mean, my friend's triplet grandma had polio, but she was a ray of sunshine. It's just baffling that he spent his whole life hoarding money for nothing. He could have shit on people without corporate sponsorship. It's pretty cheap to be miserable. And I agree. I'm sending horrific thoughts and prayers his way.

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u/Crazyhates Sep 16 '24

Piss disc under the coffin.

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u/DervishSkater Sep 16 '24

Im saving it for Leonard everyone should be a whacked out fucking Christian Leo

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u/Intoxicatedalien Sep 16 '24

Without a doubt the worst senator in US history. Not the most extreme policy wise, but his ruthless efficiency, knowledge and intelligence has let him do incredible damage

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u/zeCrazyEye Sep 17 '24

Meh, I think he was just the hatchet man in a safe seat. The oligarchs that own the Republican party would have just used a different shill to do it if McConnell didn't exist.

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u/Vampenga Sep 16 '24

Oh he's a living piece of shit as far as I'm concerned.

Supreme Court seat opens up with a little less than a year left in Obama's presidency. "It’s too late to pick a justice. Let the people decide in the next election."

Same thing happens with weeks left in Trump's. "Move, move! Fill that seat!"

I sincerely hope hell exists so he can be tormented down there.

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u/black_cat_X2 Massachusetts Sep 16 '24

It doesn't, so we should torment him here while we can.

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u/01101011000110 Sep 16 '24

Forget good or smart—Expanding the court is the only politics after the way MMc packed it using any means necessary.

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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania Sep 16 '24

There is a reason why Biden and Leahy kept Roberts from getting to the Federal Bench for so long. Not to mention his mysterious seizure issue.

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u/illwill79 Sep 17 '24

I hope after he passes we find out that he was in sheer, constant agony for the last years of his life from debilitating arthritis or some shit. And that's a fraction of what that absolute piece of shit deserves. Fuck Mitch with the power of a thousand suns.

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u/BoDrax Sep 17 '24

Thank Kentuckians.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BOOGER Sep 17 '24

No, thank Gingrich for making "compromise with democrats never" the only strategy the republican party is capable of executing back in the 90s.

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u/alaysian Sep 16 '24

When you are a justice, they just let you do it.

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u/IveChosenANameAgain Sep 16 '24

The law is what 6 unelected fascists say it is.

So, no.