Today is Wednesday, February 28, 2024. Today all Americans – except those purporting to be MAGAts – should be enraged by what the Supreme Court has fucking decided to do in postponing the most critical Drumpf trial, the election subversion case, brought by special counsel Jack Smith who must be tearing his hair out because of their pro-Trump decision which is to decide whether former faux president Donald Duck may claim immunity in that matter, adding another explosive appeal from the Drumpf legal team to its docket and further delaying his federal trial. This is too outrageous, in my opinion, and many pundits, including constitutional expert Laurence Tribe, are slamming the court’s further delaying tactic in extending justice to the insurrectionist. The better course for this terrible court to have taken was to deny taking up the case and thus sending the ruling back to the U.S. federal court that denied Trump immunity in the first place, but no, they had to weigh in on this hot-button issue like the political hacks they truly are. This disappointing decision by the high court is covered in an online CNN article by John Fritze entitled “Supreme Court to decide Trump immunity claim, further delaying election subversion trial.”

Get this as to how long this entire fucking process is now going to take: The court agreed to expedite – expedite? – the case and hear arguments the week of April 22. Fucking April 22! It’s only February 28; this is almost two months away. How can this be called an expedition of the case in every sense of the word? Not in my book is this expediting the damn case.

This disgusting move puts the criminal frontrunner for the repugnican presidential nomination on track for another high-stakes date with the “Extreme” Court, which earlier this month heard arguments in a separate case questioning whether Dump disqualified himself from running for a second term under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection ban.”

Meanwhile, the high court arguments could actually be held while Drumpf is on trial in New York on criminal charges of falsifying business records as part of a cover-up to conceal hush money payments before the 2016 election.

This terrible decision is another significant victory for Drumpf for at least two elections: He will now be able to argue for sweeping presidential immunity that, if granted, could undermine the bevy of legal challenges he faces, and he will also be able to push off a trial, likely for several weeks at least. That means when in the hell could a trial be effectively held before the election on November 5 now?

This measure also marks the second time the justices have rejected a request from Smith. The special counsel had months ago asked the high court to take the case before the DC court decided it – and was rejected.

Again, had the justices rejected Drumpf’s emergency request to pause the case, Smith would have been able to move much more quickly, virtually guaranteeing a trial before the November election. Now that has been put in dire jeopardy by this horrible decision.

In issuing this decision, the court had waited nearly two weeks to issue its ruling on how it would proceed, suggesting there was behind-the-scenes maneuvering, said Steve Vladeck, CNN analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

“The surprise is that it took the court the better part of two weeks to reach this result, from which no justice has publicly dissented. The justices couldn’t reach consensus on a way to resolve the matter without giving it full briefing and argument. It’s hard to read any tea leaves into whether that makes the court more likely to side with former President Trump when it finally resolves his immunity claim, but it certainly means that, even in the worst-case scenario for Trump, the January 6 prosecution will be delayed for at least another 3-5 months. That’s a pretty big win for Trump, even if he ends up losing this case,” Vladeck said.

As for the trial date already being postponed, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has postponed the first trial date, originally set for March 4, while appeals courts wrestled with Trump’s claims. Given the delays in the equation, a trial likely, however, wouldn’t begin until May – May – at the earliest. And let’s not rule out June even, which is only 5 months until Election Day. Could the trial even be adjudicated by that date if it starts so freaking late, thanks to the Supreme Court?

Drumpf’s initial claims about immunity are so ridiculous that any lawman could decide on his claims just on the basis of common sense, especially when it was determined that he thinks a sitting president could command a political rival be assassinated, and when he or she leaves office, he can’t be prosecuted for the crime! Drumpf stupidly argued that presidents might be hesitant to act if they were concerned about the prospect of criminal charges after they depart the White House.

U.S. Circuit Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Florence Pan, and J. Michelle Childs soundly rejected those arguments.

The judges were very clear that the allegations against the insurrectionist are serious and left no question they believe the charges can be prosecuted. They eviscerated Trump’s alleged behavior after the 2020 presidential election as unpresidential – duh? you think – and constituting an assault on American institutions.

Together, the cases have thrust the court into the middle of this year’s most crucial presidential election in a way that it has largely managed to avoid since its decision in Bush v. Gore effectively decided the 2020 election between former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore.

As MSNBC commentator Elie Mystal just stated on Alex Wagner’s show tonight, this ruling by the Supreme Court clearly demonstrates their total partisanship for a repugnican candidate for president and is not indicative of impartiality at all. He called them corrupt and said that Democrats must wake up to the reality that this Supreme Court is not so supreme and is just acting to buttress up Donald Duck! I fucking agree; what happened to the movement to “pack” the court with more liberal justices under a Democratic president? Maybe this should be reevaluated now, given this alarming decision!

I’m so angry over this shocking Supreme Court ruling that I’m ending my blog now without writing about anything else. This decision is so antithetical to getting justice served in the election subversion case that, as Chris Hayes opined, this measure takes on the characteristics of “justice delayed is justice denied,” as quoted by William E. Gladstone. The only way that Drumpf can now get justice, possibly, is through the American public who will massively reject him at the polls in November. We hope!

Oh, and Senate Minority Leader “Bitch” McConnell announced his retirement today. Fuck him, I say, and “good riddance to him!” He was the creator of the Frankenstein monster known as the Orange Turd and deserves to end his days in total agony! He’s done so many things that was ruinous to this country that we should all celebrate his retirement with a dance outside our homes. I will return tomorrow with a listing of how many injurious things he’s done as Senate Majority Leader during Obama and afterward. The Daily Kos listed 17 bad actions he spearheaded as the supreme Republican leader of the party all those years he oversaw his stinking party. McConnell does intend to finish his term (which, sadly, ends in 2027) in the Senate, and he’ll still be the Minority Leader until November. Too bad!

Stay safe and be well.

Here Atticus is again showing his willingness to go with me to my gym in Forest Hills.