Helen Kennedy: The Supreme Court cannot judge whether pressuring state officials to change their vote count and, when that failed, conspiring to submit fraudulent electors, is an "official" act. It sends the question back to the lower court to decide whether Trump's conduct "qualifies as official or unofficial."

The Supreme Court cannot judge whether pressuring state officials to change their vote count and, when that failed, conspiring to submit fraudulent electors, is an "official" act. It sends the question back to the lower court to decide whether Trump's conduct "qualifies as official or unofficial."

So an official coup is ok, but an unofficial one is a crime? Am I getting that right?

Anything is ok, as long as you can point to something, anything, no matter how tenuous, showing it was an official act. But an "unofficial" crime? Not okay. What's official, you ask the SC? BIG FUCKING SHRUG, answers the SC.

A coup is official if the Emperor declares it so.

I just hope that Judge Tonya Chutkan has already written her response, given that most of us could see how this was going to go... It would be great if she could issue her opinion on what is and isn't official tomorrow, and schedule trial immediately.

Didn't they rule last week that courts can rule on things they're not experts in because courts?

"We need more time to think about how to make this legal"

I feel sick

Time to catch that private jet and go on vacay! Kick that administrative stuff down to the minions.

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