Speaker Johnson Says What?

[angrychair]

He later added that the justices on the nation’s highest court, “many” of whom he knows personally, are “deeply concerned about that, as we are. So, I think they will set this straight, but it’s gonna take a while.”

Wow 😳. That is a pretty interesting statement from the Speaker. One is it exposes a significant bias from the Justices in question, calling into question their ability to be impartial in cases involving TSF.
Two, in what situation is the Speaker of the House associating with SCOTUS Justices and discussing the legal challenges facing the former president? Why is that conversation even happening? What was the reason that the Speaker engaged with multiple Justices in the last 12 hours and specifically discussed Trump's legal issues?

Reference: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4696419-speaker-johnson-supreme-court-should-step-in-on-trump-appeal/

[MontanaMama]

1. Right?

Especially since CJ Roberts declined to meet with Sheldon Whitehouse and Dick Durbin.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. Yes indeed!

He declined because to meet with any one group of a political party would be “inappropriate!”

They’re crooked - every one of them!!!

[LakeArenal]

2. Traitors gonna traitor.

[FalloutShelter]

3. "Set this straight?"

SCOTUS opinions are due Thursday, June 6.
Has the Immunity decision leaked?

Asking for a friend.

[wryter2000]

4. Not yet

Martha Ann hasn't posted it on her Facebook yet.

[TBF]

6. Sweet Martha is probably busy throwing things at her neighbors ... nt

[getagrip_already]

26. Says who?

They go on vacation, but court is technically still in session until the beginning of October.

They can release opinions any time they are ready, no?

Sure, traditionally they try to release them by the beginning of June, but they aren't required to. It's just their practice.

[FalloutShelter]

27. SCOTUS Blog has opinions scheduled for Thursday.

You missed my point. Johnson seems certain they will intervene. I simply wondered if the opinion has been leaked to him.
There was, after all, a leak about the Dobbs decision.
Might the leaker have the initials SA?
Did you know that Johnson flies the same appeal to heaven flag outside his office as Alito had flying at his beach house?.
JMHO

[getagrip_already]

29. Yeah, scotus drops decisions on tuesdays and thursdays

Throughout the term. Not every time, but if they drop, it's on those days.

He is right that it will take a while though. For scotus to get it, the case will have to go to the first level of appeal, then the highest appellate court in ny.

Then they can appeal to scotus if there is a constitutional question.

They could try an emergency appeal to scotus, but they really don't have grounds for that. Not that scotus needs grounds I guess.

But they need a fig leaf of a constitutional basis. Which so far they haven't raised.

[FalloutShelter]

35. I'm not talking about the guilty verdict...

I'm talking about Presidential Immunity.

[getagrip_already]

38. So am i....

Scotus routinely releases decisions on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

They don't usually announce which, if any, until the day they are released.

I think they still have over 30 outstanding decisions due.

[orangecrush]

39. Sure sounds that way

[PufPuf23]

5. The Christian Nationalists need to be taken down hard or the USA

will become a racist, theocratic dictatorship.

Christian Nationalism is bigger national security threat than Trump who is a means to their end goal.

Christian Nationalism is deeply imbedded in our society and government by a deliberate decades-long project.

[Volaris]

12. And Speaker Mike is playing the long game. After today, im convinced the Ukraine bill was part of the long game...

namely, they will use trump as their puppet to enact a theocracy, and as payment they will happily let him loot as much as he wants from the treasury.
Because these people think they know how real power works, and they understand the difference between the true believer and those who can simply be bought (guess which trump is).

The Ukraine bill was mike betting trump will get reelected, and him being smart enough to still be Speaker-Cardinal when it happens.
As far as I'm concerned, the next time his own idiots want him gone, I'm just fine with dems helping that happen now.

[OMGWTF]

17. Fking religion ruins EVERYTHING!

[lindysalsagal]

31. Stone-age fairy tales, written by goat-herders, make fools feel powerful

Well, your gawd just convicted your cult-leader's immense ass, as he does every time. You'd think they'd catch on when nothing goes their way.

[surfered]

7. Well, that rule of law we thing used to have was nice while it lasted

[usaf-vet]

8. I thought Roberts told us yesterday he couldn't meet with congress members. But today we're told he met Speaker Johnson

Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito.

Roberts’ response came in a letter to the senators a day after Alito separately wrote them and House members to reject their demands that he recuse himself from major Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 rioters because of the flags, which are like those carried by rioters at the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a member of the Judiciary panel, had written Roberts a week ago to ask for the meeting and that Roberts take steps to ensure that Alito recuses himself from any cases before the court concerning the Jan. 6 attack or the Republican former president’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

“I must respectfully decline your request for a meeting,” Roberts wrote.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/chief-justice-roberts-rejects-senate-democrats-request-to-discuss-supreme-court-ethics

[H2O Man]

10. Recommended.

The ones he knows are fucking low-lifes.

[slightlv]

11. I wish Rachel or someone else would

pick up on this, and present just what you've said. Separation of powers, my butt!

[BComplex]

21. I promise you, if every single one of the hosts on MSNBC don't hop on this, Joy or Chris or Alex will!

They don't take any prisoners!

[Warpy]

13. He thinks the USSC is going to declare GOP candidates sacrosanct

and immune froim prosecution, starting wih his Lard and Savior.

I don't think he's going to get a USSC majority, they're not that crazy, they have too much to lose.

[BComplex]

22. Sorry, Warpy: they don't have ANYTHING to lose. Theirs is permanent job security.

That has to end, asap.

[Warpy]

23. I think they do

and I think if they tried to declare this type of theocracy, there would be hell to pay. Think, for instance, of a flurry of constitutional amendments that would pass, yes pass, their approval rating is already in the toilet and we all know that branch of government needs serious reform. They would not like that, at all.

[republianmushroom]

14. Johnson sucking up to convicted felon ex-president trump.

Oh the shame of it. But he being a republican we expect it as they have no shame.

[Traurigkeit]

15. Too bad Durbin is too clueless to pick up on this and USE it.

[duckworth969]

16. Insiders are gonna give and get leaks

Johnson probably already knows the SC decision.

[lostnfound]

18. Far beyond "calling into question"; NO doubt that the SC is captive to rightwing elite

It will not change unless we can tip the balance of the court back to moderates or liberals.

[Joinfortmill]

19. This isn't finished yet. Vote

[Uncle Joe]

20. Johnson is immoral, no wonder he needs to have his son keep a close eye on his activities.

It's too bad, his son can't text and warn Johnson about his anti-democracy, anti-constitution, anti-no person is above the law porn.

Thanks for the thread angrychair

[GiqueCee]

24. The brazen corruption...

... of the former Republican Party is a blood-boiling obscenity. The weasels have taken over Toad Hall, as it were, and they're not even making any discernible effort to conceal their plans for a full-tilt boogie insurrection regardless of the outcome in November. They're out for blood.
The conservatives have poisoned the well of judicial restraint by installing rabid ideologues who will do whatever the Orange Turdblossom tells them to do. The time for namby-pamby appeasement of these traitors is OVER. Are you listening, Garland?

[Ms. Toad]

25. Assuming he's not making assumptions or lying through his teeth about what the justices think. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

28. This is the kind of 'witnessing' for Christ that degrades Christianity.

[SARose]

30. Is MAGA Mike lying?

I find it extremely hard to believe that a Supreme Court Justice would discuss Trump with Mike Johnson.

He was a no name back bencher before he became a baby face innocent looking Speaker.

In a transactional relationship with the Supremes what does he have to offer?

As my Granddaddy used to say “That boy put his mouth in motion before he put his brain in gear.”

[lindysalsagal]

32. I hope tscf finally starts oiting the jan 6 congtesspeoplei

He's usually controlling them with threats, like, "I'll leak where your Russian oligarch money comes from."

The nyc jury wasn't in on the cover-ups or bribes. Too bad for him.

[Emile]

33. I do believe Mike needs ex-lax brownies.

[maxrandb]

34. We truly are at a "they made their ruling, let them enforce it" phase

of the Retrumplican Party war against the "rule of law".

This fucked-up party must be stomped to a festering pile of goo at the ballot box.

The only way to avoid defeating them with violence, is to defeat them peacefully. That is the choice we are facing this November.

[spanone]

36. Is he telling us that the Supreme Court doesn't believe in our rule of law?

[Emile]

37. He's telling us Republicans are Weak on Crime.