Absolutely stunning public remarks made by a Supreme court Justice regarding Trump just a few weeks out before voting begins in a CBS interview. It opens up the story of the refiling of charges yesterday against Trump by Jack Smith.
She gives fodder to the media to refocus the attention once again on Trump. She does this during an election cycle when she acknowledges there probably will be election cases coming before the court. Worse, she does this to hawk her book.
Jackson thus must recuse herself of any future cases regarding Trump and the forthcoming election. But of course she won’t. This from the same person who can’t explain the biological difference between a man and a woman.
A small portion of her remarks on Apr 25, 2024 during the hearing of the case.
“If there’s no threat of criminal prosecution, what prevents the president from just doing whatever he wants?” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pressed Trump’s attorney, D. John Sauer. She said she was worried that granting Trump’s position for presidential immunity would “embolden” a president to act criminally “with abandon.”
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told CBS News that she is “concerned” about the court’s divisive decision to grant sweeping immunity to former President Donald Trump because it treats one person differently than others in the criminal justice system.
“I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone the same,” Jackson told “CBS News Sunday Morning”in an interview, part of which aired Tuesday.
The reverberations of the ruling are still being felt in the criminal cases pending against Trump. The Supreme Court’s decision has delayed special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal case against the GOP presidential nominee for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Trump, the Supreme Court ruled, could still be prosecuted for unofficial actions.
Smith filed a superseding indictment on Tuesday that retained the same four charges but stripped down parts of the original indictment dealing with actions Trump took that the court suggested would be immune from prosecution.
A District Court in Washington, DC, will hold a hearing on next steps in that case next week.
The court is also going to face a flurry of expected election litigation this fall.
Asked by CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell whether she is ready, Jackson said she is “as prepared as anyone can be.”
“I think there are legal issues that arise out of the political process,” Jackson said, according to an excerpt of the interview provided by CBS. “And so, the Supreme Court has to be prepared to respond – if – if that should be necessary.”
Of course there is no mention whatsoever by CNN that Jack Smith himself is under litigation regarding the legality of his very appointment. This clip is only click bait for her full Sunday interview and the selling of her book.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sits down with “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell to discuss the court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
We are looking down the barrel of potentially a couple more Jackson types on the Supreme court either by death or by expanding the number of Justices by a rogue Senate if Trump is defeated and the GOP lose the majority. Worth thinking about.
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