Karen F. Agnifilo: 'Supreme Court Drops MAJOR HINT On Donald Trump’s Future

Source:Meidas Touch- left to right: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts & Defendant Don.

"Former Prosecutor and Legal AF Host, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, reports on a new hint from the Supreme Court and what it might tell us about what is next on their docket." 

From the Meidas Touch

"The Supreme Court will decide whether the Colorado court was right to bar the former president from the ballot.

Donald trump is well on his way to becoming history’s greatest litigation loser ever. But in the multifront war of Trump v. Seemingly Everyone Else, he has just prevailed in one small skirmish: The Battle of the Questions Presented.

Late Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to review the Supreme Court of Colorado’s decision that held Trump ineligible to serve again as president under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, the provision barring insurrectionists from public office. That came as no surprise.

The nation’s high court also ordered an unusually fast schedule, with oral argument to be held in 34 days—on February 8. That, too, came as no surprise. All parties to the case agreed that the Court should hear the case, and do so expeditiously, so that states and voters could know before the presidential-primary season ends whether Trump was eligible for office.

What was unusual was the Court’s choice to grant review without specifying the particular legal issues it intends to decide... 

From The Atlantic

Not just myself, but The New Democrat in general has stayed away from the 14th Amendment argument against Donald Trump, for the simple reason that you could make a good argument either way. I think it's obvious that Donald Trump is guilty of insurrection from 2021. All the video evidence, his own statements and actions relating to even what he was doing in the last 2 weeks of his presidency has made that clear. As well as all the testimony from his own people against him. 

But, Donald Trump has yet to be convicted even by Congress for his role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection against the U.S. Government. He was just impeached by Congress in the House, but then acquitted by the Senate. And has yet to go on trial even for his role in the insurrection.

I'm not saying this a flip of the coin, 50-50 case here, but if the choice is between prosecuting and convicting Donald Trump in court and then having him in jail for perhaps the entire 2nd half of the 2024 presidential campaign and just kicking him off the ballots in two states, (Colorado and Maine) I'm going with legal and democratic process here, as an at best independent Democrat, but more like a small d democrat, who believes in liberal democracy, including the rule of law in America. 

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