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Justice Samuel Alito confirmed speaking with Trump hours before Trump's legal team filed an emergency Supreme Court request to block his Friday sentencing in a hush money case, has drawn scrutiny due to ethical concerns.

Alito denied discussing Trump’s legal matters or pending cases.

Trump seeks to delay sentencing, arguing it disrupts the presidency and national security.

The Supreme Court requested prosecutors' responses by Thursday morning and will decide by Friday.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 92 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why in the world is he allowed to talk to the judges?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why in the world hasn't he been executed for treason?

probably the same reason.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The answer to that question is "he missed".

[–] TrippaSnippa@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because fuck you, who's going to stop him?

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who indeed? Who among the chronically comic book, lone wolf, hero culture obsessed United States could be inspired to action against a singular existential threat? In the interest of nonviolence I hope we never find out. It would surely be a tragedy if someone among the downtrodden stepped up and made their voice heard on a global scale by doing something desperate.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Omg it's an actual png. Points to you.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

One guy did that but was relentlessly mocked for being ugly and having a less than ideal shooting platform and aim.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or the judges. They've have already proven that they consider themselves above the law.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Dredd: "I am the law!"

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This county is a goddamn joke

[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Steve@communick.news 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. It became a joke the first time we elected an actor to be President.

[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nah it was a joke from the moment we looked at the natives and said, "but what if we killed most of them for funsies?"

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The three corporations in a pimp suit masquerading as a world power.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Take your pick.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Y’know, the one country there is.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spin the globe, put your finger down and hope it isn't on ocean?

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crap, my finger ended up pointing at the Gulf of America.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

You mean the Gulf of How Does This Help Grocery Prices Again?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You mean a country founded on the principle that all men are created equal yet had to have a civil war to free slaves a hundred years later?

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A justice tasked to decide a criminal's fate having a friendly chit-chat with said criminal would have been instantly invalidating for the justice and the criminal.

Yet here we are today, it's just meh news.

That high-pitched whirring sound you're hearing is the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves at 15,000 RPM.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Founding Fathers spinning in their graves

A seemingly endless supply of renewable energy.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember learning about avoiding the appearance of impropriety in school. Maybe Justice Alito was absent that day.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 23 points 1 year ago

The fact that he spoke with Trump at all while Trump has personal cases pending which are likely to reach SCOTUS is improper all by itself.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

"I tell this guy, Alito, hey Alito, you know? You're a great judge, people say the best judge, you know? But you don't need to worry now. We won, you can stop pretending we don't talk. I don't think he gets it though. Great judge, just cares too much what the Lying Media™©® will say. It doesn't matter what they say. I say it's fake, I sue them, and they come kiss my feet."

-Trump probably.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Oh ok, never mind then!

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

And now we see the obvious reason why Trump ran for election - he sees it as the only way to keep his sorry ass out of prison.

[–] beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's not his sentencing that disrupts the presidency and national security. It's him.