(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . By using a Yogi Berra quote in the first line of Previous Guy's argument, have they annoyed SCOTUS [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-02-12 SCOTUS may take up Trump’s appeal of the decision. but allow things to start back up at the trial level, and toss a hint that’s exactly what they think judge Chutkan should do. But if they grant a stay pending an appeal, even on an “expedited” basis we are looking at a couple of months (at best) delay. Maybe, probably more. And that will be that. No Trump trial in DC before the election. Donald Trump’s filing to the Supreme Court over his claim for sweeping presidential immunity begins with a quote from Yogi Berra. “This application is déjà vu all over again,” the former president’s lawyers write, noting that special counsel Jack Smith had tried and failed to get the nine justices to decide the question on a fast-track basis in December. But another of the late and revered New York Yankees catcher’s phrases offers a better summation of Trump’s interminable delay-at-all-costs legal strategy designed to defer a reckoning until after November’s election — “It ain’t over till it’s over.” The ex-president asked the Supreme Court on Monday to step in to temporarily block a US Court of Appeals decision that last week eviscerated his claims that a president is effectively above the law while in office and shielded from prosecution afterwards. The filing is Trumpian in its audacity. www.cnn.com/… Trump’s new Supreme Court gambit doesn’t even try to hide that it’s a delaying tactic x NEWS: Trump asks the Supreme Court of the United States to stay DC Cir. mandate pending the filing of a petition for writ of certiorari. The application for stay at the high court follows the DC Cir.’s denial of Trump’s Presidential immunity claims. pic.twitter.com/95dcjrAGDh — Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) February 12, 2024 https://t.co/xadBRavBok Who Says It Can't Happen Here? But the resistance must be about more than Trump. The democratic energies we expressed in the years and months leading up to November 2016 must lead to a struggle for democracy, which means a sustained struggle against the authoritarianism of both Trump and the reactionary forces that enabled his rise to power and authority. We must resist the future now taking shape in the fevered imagination of those like chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, who once openly admitted to emulating Lenin in wanting to “destroy the state” and wants to push us further and further to the right. The die is cast. To secure American democratic life, we must resist and overcome not only the initiatives of the greedy, corrupt, bigoted and narcissistic bully who currently occupies the White House, but also the anti-democratic ambitions and schemes of corporate capital and the right. If our parents and grandparents’ lives tell us anything, it is that it’s not just a matter of rejecting authoritarianism but of acting in solidarity to radically enhance freedom, equality and democracy. billmoyers.com/... Deutsche Bank privately suspected that Trump was a money-laundering operation for Russia/Putin….but Deutsche Bank employee Justin Kennedy (son of Justice Anthony Kennedy) arranged loans for Trump, regardless his own Bank’s concerns. Look into Trump’s Deutsche Bank loan history. How were the loans collateralized and how were they repaid? Justin Kennedy helped Donald Trump in 2005 secure nearly $700 mill in loans to construct a skyscraper in Chicago, despite Trump’s reputation for defaulting on business loans. https://t.co/h25Dy3qRbP x Before Mike Offit and Justin Kennedy, son of former Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy, were recruited to Deutsche Bank & managed hundreds of millions in Trump loans - both had been traders at Goldman Sachs working for Steven Mnuchinhttps://t.co/3pwOqTW5Td pic.twitter.com/Mh2nhpnTQY — Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) February 4, 2020 [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/12/2216323/-By-using-a-Yogi-Berra-quote-in-the-first-line-of-Previous-Guy-s-argument-have-they-annoyed-SCOTUS?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/