Denying cert also complies with the rule of law.
by John@Indy (2024-02-29 08:48:47)

In reply to: That may very well be. But that’s how the rule of law works,  posted by domerfromkansas

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Trump's argument is frivolous, and would have been considered laughable at any time before he asserted it. It certainly would have been news to Gerald Ford, who blew up his re-election campaign before it began by pardoning Nixon, or to Bill Clinton, who surrendered his law license on his last day in office as part of a deal to avoid indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice.

If the issues are obviously "so important that SCOTUS needs to decide them," simply because a former president is involved, and there was no circumstance in which SCOTUS would decline to hear the case, then they should have taken it when Smith requested it in December.

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