Former President Donald Trump has tried every legal trick in the book to postpone his four upcoming criminal trials past election day.

But his master plan just ran into a big problem.

That’s because the Supreme Court showed it’s willing to move at lightning speed this week, when it agreed to fast-track an urgent request from Special Counsel Jack Smith about an issue that risks jamming up the legal works. In a system that can sometimes take years to reach resolution, the high court just got back to Smith in less than one day.

In other words, the Supreme Court just showed it understands the urgency of the situation. While this week’s action was only an early indicator and hardly a final decision on the merits of the pending appeal related to Trump’s Jan. 6 case, the court reacted with the kind of warp speed that suggests Trump’s attempt to bog things down could be doomed.

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    How to decide who is just?
    Edit: ehm…I really was thinking about how this could be made fair without just punishing wrong doing.
    As a fan of ‘no power for noone’ I’m very sceptical of anyone choosing someone who is just. So I’m not sure if this system can ever live up to its name, because it’s always lacking behind thanks to the speed of social system and law change

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      I don’t need to be able to tell you exactly how many grains of sand make a desert in order to tell you that the Sahara is a desert and I don’t need to fully define “just” vs “unjust” to tell you that going on thousand dollar/day vacations with someone who has business before your court after and taking on cases where there is no injured party in order to overturn precedent is unjust

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      The work is moreso on the inverse, making sure it’s not unjust. No matter how you slice it, someone’s going to take issue on the outcome of each ruling.

      What IS easy to quantify is the sheer number of legal scholars and domain experts sounding the alarm that many rulings are inconsistent with previously established law (and in many cases having profound negative consequences on the stability of our society), and that there are frequent conflicts of interest on a huge number of cases (cough cough Thomas).

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        And Roberts, he seems to be not mentioned as much, but he’s just as corrupt.

        • Jane Roberts was paid more than $10 million by a host of elite law firms, a whistleblower alleges.
        • At least one of those firms argued a case before Chief Justice Roberts after paying his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars.
        • Details of Jane Roberts’ work come as Congress struggles to reform the Court’s self-policed ethics.

        A nepo bribe taker, a straight up bribe taker, a rapist and a Christian extremest walk into a bar. The bartender says, “You can’t do your dirty business here SCOTUS.”

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      How about striking anyone who commits perjury? Or anyone who accepts bribes? Those seem like low hanging fruit where we should all be able to find common ground.

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      I agree man it feels like they are bitting into their own tail.

      I mean maybe that judge that has already been proven that he took brides .

      Idk about anything else from anyone else. But completely agree, this type of midset from people who are far from the situation only makes us as bad as republicans wanting to overtrow the gov.

      Extremists usually don’t fix much

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      Why don’t we have a court that’s above all the other ones. Some kind of absolute, all-powerful, mighty court that rules on all the other courts and decides if it’s just.

      We could call it: Court Supreme

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          Lawyers will need to roll a Burrito Supreme while making their arguments. Then it is eaten by the bailiff and points are deducted for each piece of food that is spilled.

          Why? Because only the pure of heart can roll a good burrito.

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            Are you sure Judge Gen, Almighty Judge on High of All Beings Living and Dead for All Eternity, is not the more appropriate judge of this sort of thing?