If a tRump indictment goes to the SCOTUS

[SHRED]

I fear the worst.

Do you?

[RKP5637]

1. Yes! n/t

[CrispyQ]

2. Yes.

I did not know this about Kennedy: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210790246

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Now you understand what McConnell was up to.

[Vinca]

5. I don't know if Democrats would have had any recourse, but they sure as hell should

have tried harder to get a hearing for Garland. The SCOTUS is where we really get screwed.

[onenote]

8. Tried harder how?

[Vinca]

10. It wouldn't have hurt to shame them for holding up the nomination. Candidates

could have made the Supreme Court a more prominent part of the election. We've got to get past the notion we might hurt someone's feelings if we fight back. It might not have worked, but at least we could say we tried our hardest to prevent this nightmare.

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9. Many of us were waiting

for major outrage from our Democratic Party. We lost the Narrative to the Corporate Media.

[Vinca]

11. That's true. The media turned into a 24/7 Trump reality show before the 2016 election.

They got ratings and the cost was debasing the country.

[NewJeffCT]

12. We were too concerned

fighting the primary wars and wringing our hands over DNC emails, as well as Trump's daily abominations, to also get outraged over Merrick Garland as well.

Obama's big mistake was not pushing harder for it, or sending him to the SCOTUS and then announcing that the Senate had waived their right to advise & consent so he was appointing Merrick Garland after 90 days.

and, for all of Obama's moderate to liberal politics, he was probably too much of a constitutional traditionalist to do something like that:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-can-appoint-merrick-garland-to-the-supreme-court-if-the-senate-does-nothing/2016/04/08/4a696700-fcf1-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0658f56f58b4

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13. Have to agree,

that became very evident by July of 2016 . As we worked the phones are discussing issues with people going back and forth to DC. It became very apparent that White House Advisor's were telling Obama to not get sideways in this debate for fear of being Partisan.

Well what the hell do you think was the forecast results. Some of those Conversations we were having in our local office were damn hot. And we ended up with what most had expected.

[Raster]

16. Barack Obama earnestly wanted to be the POTUS for every US citizen...

...even for those that did not vote for him. Unfortunately, a gutter rat like Comrade McConnell and the rest of the GOP lunacy look for decent people with scruples to exploit, and now we have a brutally partisan 5-4 SCOTUS.

[Wellstone ruled]

20. Oh what a time in our History

to be a Poly Sci Major. Best of the Best and Worst of the Worst,all in the span of 17 months.

[Raster]

21. You ain't a-kidding...

...and I fear there is MORE to come.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Sadly, yes. The OG Conservatives are mere puppets in Trump's Theater of the Absurd playhouse.

[onenote]

6. That's a rather large "if"

I think it is unlikely to the nth power that an indictment will be sought against Trump.

[NCTraveler]

7. It would be a huge win.

No matter what the SC does.

[C_U_L8R]

14. This freakin court would reverse it

and coronate him president for life

[duforsure]

15. He corruptted the republican russian Supreme Court justices

To be loyal to him or else. He's doing this from one sector to another, and just like putin did.

[UTUSN]

17. I will fear the worst until he is finally gone out of our lives

[MoonRiver]

18. Yes. He will skate.

[DavidDvorkin]

19. If SCOTUS overturned the indictment, every decent American would call for Trump's removal

from office.

And we'd find out just how many decent Americans there are.

[GoCubsGo]

22. Hard to say what will happen.

I could see Kennedy coming to his senses, and Roberts could actually surprise us, as he has done on more than one occasion. But, no. It doesn't look good.