Making sure I understand this: All the SCOTUS has done, really, is accept the DOJ’s abandonment of the case? Not getting into whether or not he is guilty (he is), or whether or not the DOJ is doing this for purely political reasons (they are), but if the DOJ no longer wants to prosecute the case, isn’t this just the SCOTUS saying, " OK?" which was probably a foregone conclusion after the Solicitor General told them they were abandoning the case back in Feb?
Don’t get me wrong, it absolutely sucks, and I’m not at all surprised. But didn’t we all know this was going to happen? Just like we all know Bannon, and likely Navaro), will successfully sue the DOJ for some absurd sum that they will “settle out of court for undisclosed amounts.” Right? Everyone knew this, right? This is/will be another example of the taxpayers paying Trump’s henchmen.
if the DOJ no longer wants to prosecute the case, isn’t this just the SCOTUS saying, " OK?" which was probably a foregone conclusion after the Solicitor General told them they were abandoning the case back in Feb?
Courts can refuse to dismiss a case, though it is rare. In https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/434/22/ lower courts had refused a dismissal, though that was overridden by the Supreme Court with the argument that dismissal
cannot fairly be characterized as “clearly contrary to manifest public interest.”
In the case of Bannon, it seems to me that it is very much contrary to public interest to dismiss. We are in extraordinary times, and this is an extraordinarily corrupt dismissal. So if we think it was a foregone conclusion, then it is only because we know SCROTUS is corrupt, right? Not because the law said so.
Making sure I understand this: All the SCOTUS has done, really, is accept the DOJ’s abandonment of the case? Not getting into whether or not he is guilty (he is), or whether or not the DOJ is doing this for purely political reasons (they are), but if the DOJ no longer wants to prosecute the case, isn’t this just the SCOTUS saying, " OK?" which was probably a foregone conclusion after the Solicitor General told them they were abandoning the case back in Feb?
Don’t get me wrong, it absolutely sucks, and I’m not at all surprised. But didn’t we all know this was going to happen? Just like we all know Bannon, and likely Navaro), will successfully sue the DOJ for some absurd sum that they will “settle out of court for undisclosed amounts.” Right? Everyone knew this, right? This is/will be another example of the taxpayers paying Trump’s henchmen.
Courts can refuse to dismiss a case, though it is rare. In https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/434/22/ lower courts had refused a dismissal, though that was overridden by the Supreme Court with the argument that dismissal
In the case of Bannon, it seems to me that it is very much contrary to public interest to dismiss. We are in extraordinary times, and this is an extraordinarily corrupt dismissal. So if we think it was a foregone conclusion, then it is only because we know SCROTUS is corrupt, right? Not because the law said so.
Yep, if he wins this I am sure he will turn around and sue for wrongful imprisonment.