Posted on 08/04/2023 7:53:08 AM PDT by conservative98
Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin said Thursday on the Mark Levin Show that Donald Trump’s lawyers should file an emergency request for the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the prosecutions of the former president.
Levin argued that Special Counsel Jack Smith, who he noted is not a presidential appointee, was using the indictments of Trump “as political weapons” to tarnish him as a candidate. He observed that Smith had asked federal judges, in both the “documents” case filed in Miami, and the “January 6” case filed in Washington, to carry out a speedy trial. That, he said, seemed designed to affect Trump’s chances in the upcoming election, and to divert Trump’s time and money from campaigning to defending himself.
“The fact is that this kind of legal warfare against a presidential and possible, if not likely, opponent to the present president, is not only unprecedented in the history of our Republic, it will destroy our electoral system for all time,” Levin argued further.
“It is not something that should be let to the various district courts or local courts to sort out in the course of regular judicial proceedings. In fact, that is part of the intended strategy by the prosecutors, who are engaged in this assault on our electoral system. They must not be rewarded for their behavior,” he said.
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“It is the process that’s the killer here, and they know it. And they’re playing the process by unloading all these indictments, by taking Trump off the campaign trail, by depleting his resources, by influencing [voters],” Levin said.
He continued: “I want to publicly encourage the Trump legal team to seek an emergency hearing before the United States Supreme Court, not to resolve legal disputes, but to at least temporarily halt the abomination of this legal warfare that is unfolding in front of us, where Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans are unashamedly celebrating the use of the courts by the Biden administration and Democrat district attorneys to further their political wishes as the rest of the nation watches in shock.”
“This unprecedented legal warfare requires an unprecedented response by the only constitutional body left that can do something about it.”
This is certainly all about the manipulation of the 2024 election
The timing shows that, in spades
Has he not been paying attention to John Roberts lately, with all his deference to lower and state courts?
They won’t do a darn thing to stop this mess.
On what basis can the court act? I’m not an attorney, but I don’t see Levin quoting laws or precedence to support court action.
Audio version:
Levin’s Public Advice To President Trump’s Legal Team….
(August 3, 2023)
14 minutes long, it has all the details.
AND “protecting “Joe” and the Prodigal Junkie from prosecution.
I think Levine is a lawyer. If he says the SC can put a stop to this BS l believe him. They won’t. The DC Courts are overseen by Roberts. Game over.
I don’t know of any previous Supreme Court actions, where they would have summarily just stopped actions happening in other courts.
People keep talking about Bush vs. Gore, but in that case, the Supreme Court consolidated a few other cases which had already been heard in other courts, relating to the recounts in Florida. So even with that analogy, the Supreme Court is going to wait and see what happens in these Trump cases in the lower courts, then consider appeals. They could take an expedited appeal, and bypass the appeals courts, but even if they did that, they would still have allowed the ongoing process to play out.
roberts is dc-coin toss
thomas is fl
I respect Levin but how does this work?? I’ve never heard of the USSC preventing a criminal case from going to trial.
Where’s the precedent? Where’s the law?
““This unprecedented legal warfare requires an unprecedented response by the only constitutional body left that can do something about it.”
The USSC does not have Original Jurisdiction over any of these charges. They would not be able to adhere to Strict Construction if they intervene.
Now, if one of these judges issues a gag order...whole different story.
Why is it that all of the Zeepers also have TDS? Zeepers are authoritarian nutjobs that belong on DU.
Sounds like Levin is having a stroke. That’s right, I said it!
Just for the record I had the same reaction as you did
“I’ve never heard of the USSC preventing a criminal case from going to trial.”
I would think that anything they are doing to Trump regarding January 6 would fall under double jeopardy? He already faced an impeachment over this very matter.
That said, there needs to be a judicial-smackdown on the new ‘Lawfare’ approach to bankrupting people and organizations using our legal system as a process of punishment.
One final add to this, Merrick Garland announced a Special Prosecutor only when Trump announced his candidacy for President. Since when is announcing your candidacy a legitimate trigger for a special prosecutor?
So you get to sick a prosecutor, (who has now spent $25,000,000.00), to just fish around a political candidate and dream shit up? Indict you over here, maybe over there. Raid your home. Take your stuff. Use you as media-cover every time your preferred political leader gets some unfavorable press. EVERY TIME!
They are terrified of Trump beyond all imagination.
It all seems very Soviet to me. Levin may be onto something. Unprecedented actions require an unprecedented response!
Both true.
Yeah, I’m not sure the courts are going to help us. We may end up in the same position as the Venezuelans who thought their Supreme Court would save them from a dictator.
At some point we’ll have to confront the fact that the only thing that worries a dictator is force, not the law, or public opinion, the press, or votes.
First, the double jeopardy argument would have to be heard by a trial court. The USSC isn’t going to hear an objection not argued at trial.
Second, the defendant would have to be found guilty before an appeal would be heard.
Third, an impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. You might recall that when McConnell voted against the second impeachment, he specified that he did so not because he felt that President Trump was not guilty but because since he was no longer in office that the more appropriate course was a criminal case.
Fourth, the idea that the Constitution contemplates the idea of a “judicial smackdown” is absurd.
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