{"id":2188275,"date":"2024-02-28T23:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-furious-over-supreme-courts-trump-announcement-fundamentally-corrupt\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T23:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:29:05","slug":"democrats-furious-over-supreme-courts-trump-announcement-fundamentally-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-furious-over-supreme-courts-trump-announcement-fundamentally-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats furious over Supreme Court\u2019s Trump announcement: \u2018Fundamentally corrupt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-furious-over-supreme-courts-trump-announcement-fundamentally-corrupt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2188275&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Several Democrats expressed outrage over the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to hear out former President Donald Trump\u2019s claims of immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic politicians and commentators denounced the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to take up the presidential immunity dispute, with their responses suggesting they believe it is likely the high court sides with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Supreme Court is placing itself on trial with its decision to hear the former president\u2019s total immunity claim,\u201d former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said. \u201cIt remains to be seen whether the justices will uphold the fundamental American value that no one is above the law \u2013 not even a former president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is placing itself on trial with its decision to hear the former president\u2019s total immunity claim. It remains to be seen whether the justices will uphold the fundamental American value that no one is above the law \u2013 not even a former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) February 28, 2024 The Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf decried the decision to hear the case as \u201cfundamentally corrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not beat around the bush, decision by the Supreme Court to hear the Trump immunity case is outrageous and, at its heart, fundamentally corrupt,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe Appeals Court decision was bullet proof and there is no case Trump has any sort of immunity. The decision not to hear it until late April makes further significant trial delays likely. They are deliberately delaying the trial without any reasonable legal reason to do so. This is a political decision and, in my estimation, an ugly one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not beat around the bush, decision by the Supreme Court to hear the Trump immunity case is outrageous and, at its heart, fundamentally corrupt. The Appeals Court decision was bullet proof and there is no case Trump has any sort of immunity. The decision not to hear it until\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) February 28, 2024 A contributor from the outlet, Joanne Carducci, had a much more vulgar and straightforward response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna go with \u2014 because they\u2019re corrupt as f***, bought and paid for, Christofascist traitors,\u201d she wrote in a post on X in response to \u201cWhy on god\u2019s green earth\u201d the high court did not take up the case earlier. Her post was shared by other left-wing commentators.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Democratic commentators portrayed the court as being held hostage by \u201cChristofascists,\u201d none of the liberal judges dissented, nor did they dissent from the court\u2019s decision to expedite consideration of special counsel\u00a0Jack Smith\u2019s\u00a0petition on the immunity claims.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC hosts Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow also presented a sobering analysis of the decision, with Maddow suggesting that it could lead to Trump becoming a dictator.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: @Maddow breaks down the incentive structure produced by the Supreme Court deciding to take up the question of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;absolute immunity&#8221; from prosecution. pic.twitter.com\/sesRMSL0rX<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) February 29, 2024 Others, such as Megyn Kelly, marveled at what the development could mean for Trump, suggesting he could \u201chave pulled the inside straight he needed to beat these cases,\u201d referencing the criminal case he faces in Georgia as well due to the developments regarding Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>The former president\u2019s lawyers met the Feb. 12 deadline to appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit\u2019s 3-0 ruling against his presidential immunity claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s decision to hear the case will push back Trump\u2019s Washington, D.C., election obstruction trial, a major victory for the former president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Democrats expressed outrage over the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to hear out former President Donald Trump\u2019s claims of immunity. Democratic politicians and commentators denounced the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to take up the presidential immunity dispute, with their responses suggesting they believe it is likely the high court sides with Trump. \u201cThe Supreme Court is placing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2188276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24056021817374.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats furious over Supreme Court\u2019s Trump announcement: \u2018Fundamentally corrupt\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP24056021817374.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats furious over Supreme Court\u2019s Trump announcement: \u2018Fundamentally corrupt\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}