ABC, NBC Lose Their Minds Over SCOTUS Cert for Trump Immunity Appeal

Late Wednesday afternoon, the Supreme Court announced they’d hear the case on presidential immunity as it relates to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 criminal case against former President Trump. Naturally, this decision left the liberal media — including ABC and NBC on Wednesday night and Thursday morning — enraged this could further delay what they hope leads to Trump’s imprisonment.

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Instead of letting the D.C. Court of Appeals’s decision against Trump stand, the Court decided it would weigh in on whether a president is immune from prosecution, which is, in fact, a big deal. In other words, the kind of topic the high court exists to answer. ...

In contrast to all this, CBS had longtime Supreme Court correspondent Jan Crawford on both Wednesday’s CBS Evening News and Thursday’s CBS Mornings, who provided a sober, reality-based view that the Court “had to take this case” given its magnitude. In other words, her message was this: relax.

Ed Morrissey

I'm unclear on what people expect the Supreme Court to do in this instance, especially given that special counsel Jack Smith initially asked them to take it up on an expedited basis. The court refused at that point, in order to allow normal due process to take place and the lower courts to develop the arguments fully. 

Just because they took it up does not mean they'll overrule it. They may have taken it up to deal with the argument once and for good, in order to clear up any future ambiguity on the issue. If I had to guess, I'd say that may have been their primary motivation.  But since both sides of the case have now asked SCOTUS to rule on the question, it was all but unavoidable. 

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