his hail-mary gambit for the trial was to spill a pitcher of water on his lawyer’s tight white tshirt during a pivotal moment, but without a jury there’s kinda no opportunity that would distract from all the evidence of obvious crimes
I get that, but that’s not the question. If you discover someone does that, do you judge them for it? Does it make them bad person? If you otherwise thought well of them, do you think less of them now?
On one hand I get it, you don’t want to get all the way through the process only to have the SC be all “Fuck you no” but at the same time why even bother inviting these partisan fuckheads into the proces?
If they’re gonna play Calvinball it’s better to have it happen sooner rather than later. That said, I’m sure they have 0 interest in speeding things up so they’ll probably let the appeals process play out in the DC Circuit and drain a month or two off the clock, then drain a bunch more time while they “consider” the arguments afterwards. If they get really lucky Trump will get a 2/3 Trump judge panel in the lower court and they can run some serious clock.
I’d be shocked if the Supreme Court has any interest in expediting anything; the deplorable play is clearly to run the clock out until the god-king is annointed.
the real question here is why DIDN’T trump pardon himself on the way out? because the only play now is hope to stall long enough to get back in and pardon himself, right?
Well, it would have been challenged. And he would have been admitting he was guilty of criminal acts that would be relevant to potential state charges he couldn’t pardon himself for. Or maybe he just fucked up the paperwork.