Granting Cert News Today

Scheduled by the Justice Department and Special Counsel jack smith for his january 6th conduct. By shorthand you may have heard this called the Immunity Case. What we have new just in the last hour is the Supreme Court deciding to weigh in, to take the case to delay the trial. As well get into tonight its not something they have to do but something they have the Legal Authority to do, and its something they are doing. So the court is granting this cert, this review late today. And theyre giving ...

jack smith to accelerate a decision on donald trumps claim of presidential immunity in his federal election criminal interference case. now, the one sentence reply -- the order from the supreme court reads, quote, the petition for writ of serzh yry is denied. in other words were going not going to -- the appeals process could give donald trump ample time to further delay this case, which is of course supposed to go to trial just a few months from now, the first week of march. trump may...

Democracy at stake, the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court hold in their hands the power to forever alter the trajectory of our country. How they rule on cases having to do with january 6th, violent attempt to disrupt the transfer of power, will echo for generations. So not only is it reasonable for us to expect those nine human beings to go about their process impartially, its vital that they are seen and perceived as being impartial appearance. The mere appearance of bias could s...

And loses, the case that have been argued. granting cert means scheduling future cases. sometimes scheduling a case without a big issue like we had with the travel ban, or not at all. the more liberal ninth circuit and the conservative fourth circuit have both said well block it as they go. when they decide if they want to hear it, they have to decide whether to continue to block it or not. >> we only have a minute left, but will or will not 80-year-old justice anthony kennedy decide to retire. ...

Do you think specter will succeed here in breaking any new ground in terms of any one of these nominees? >> i think senator specter has spent a great deal of time on the ginsberg rule. he said i gee with your earlier criticism about how vac wous these hearings have become. in my view, specter is right, the earlier kagan is right, she should answer these questions. i was a little bit -- i thought it was a little bit bizarre when he went into the question of granting cert, even i have a problem wi...