Law professor hammered for confidence Supreme Court will dismiss 'nonsense' Trump lawsuit
The Missouri attorney general filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an effort to overturn Donald Trump's gag order in the hush money case — and halt September's sentencing
In the filing, far-right Attorney General Andrew Bailey asked for "modest relief: a stay of New York's gag order and impending sentence against Donald J. Trump during the 2024 Presidential election season so Missourians can participate in the election free from New York's exercise of coercive power limiting the ability of Trump to campaign."
According to Bailey, the gag order — put in place to protect witnesses and jurors from Trump's attacks and partially remaining until sentencing — blocks electors from filing "their federal functions," though he doesn't explain how the electors are being blocked. Bailey plays up the "considerable harms to voters and electors in Missouri."
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Lawyer Matt Margolis lamented on X, "We are really at the 'f--k it, it could really work' stage" of Trump's cases.
But Georgetown law Professor Steve Vladeck promised that there is no way that the Supreme Court would buy into Bailey's "original" jurisdiction claim.
"There’s a 0.0% chance even *this* Court goes along with this nonsense," he wrote.
He quickly got buried for his confidence.
Comments to his tweet quickly filled with people saying that they also thought that the Supreme Court wouldn't grant Trump immunity, but after the Monday ruling, they're fearful that anything is possible.
David Welker, a purported lawyer, said that there is an "absence of precedent regarding this sort of thing." He attacked Vladeck's confidence, saying, "This has never happened before," and accused him of "going on vibes."
Vladeck replied that there are dozens of examples before posting another update.
"Dear people yelling at me for saying this has no chance: I understand that you’re cynical about the Court right now. So am I," he confessed. "That doesn’t change the fact that this has no chance. Thomas and Alito will file their standard 'original JX is mandatory' dissent, and that’ll be that."