Has the Supreme Court gone ga-ga or MAGA? | The Hill

And the elephant in the room: If Trump is reelected, he will have the power to dismiss all federal charges against him, and justice delayed will surely be justice denied.

Judges are supposed to expedite proceedings. Indeed, it is extraordinary, in my experience, for a court to enjoin the start of a criminal trial. But this is an extraordinary case.

Indeed, the Supreme Court been known to put issues of great national concern on a rocket docket. In Bush v. Gore, the court held oral argument on December 11, 2000, and decided the case 5-4 the very next day. And in United States v. Nixon, a unanimous court ordered Nixon to turn over the White House tapes to the special prosecutor just 16 days after argument. If this court acts as speedily, an August trial might be possible, but don t get your hopes up.

In times gone by, justices like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis D. Brandeis undeterred by the rule of five wrote principled dissents, which eventually became the law. Now, the liberal minority, cowed by Roberts s call for institutionalism, goes along with the majority, lest the court appear to be too political.

We do not know whether the criminal prosecution of Jack Smith s indictment arising from the Jan. 6 insurrection will ever be tried. But we are certainly no longer a government of laws, not of men. As Trump s mentor Roy Cohn was fond of saying to his colleagues when he had a case in court: F the law, who s the judge?

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