News about January 6, Supreme Court

At last week’s oral argument in the Trump immunity case, Justice Gorsuch defended the Court’s focus on hypotheticals by saying it’s “writing a rule … for the ages.” Today’s “One First” explains why that’s the *exact* problem with how #SCOTUS appears to be approaching this case: pic.twitter.com/LQwubdjETx

“In 2004, a relatively unknown D.C. Circuit judge named John Roberts summarized the ‘cardinal principle of judicial restraint’: “‘If it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more.’ Here, if a majority of the Court believes that the January 6-related…

“We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now. www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-celebrating-supreme-court-immunity-heist-1235009838/

In civil case against Trump over Jan 6, judge has set deadline for discovery on the immunity issue for Sept 11. The appeals court ruling that ordered this pretrial proceeding was cited by SCOTUS justices last week as a model for how to handle similar issue in the criminal case. pic.twitter.com/U27W5iDiMo