Cert before judgement.
It means the SC takes a case in an expedited fashion by making a ruling before it goes through the lower appellate court. Is there precedent for it? Well, yes there is.
The Court saw fit to grant it to a number of Repub controlled states who sued to stop Biden's EO cancelling student debt. Then, by way of novel legal reasoning, the Court overturned the lower court ruling.
The Court also granted cert before judgement when Biden ordered an eviction ban to prevent people from being thrown out of their homes during COVID. IN THREE WEEKS it ruled people could indeed by thrown out of their homes even though they had lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
Those are two recent examples when this Court has moved quickly to rule on cases of national significance. National significance like a presidential election.
But when Jack Smith asked the Court for cert before judgement in the immunity case it said, or the conservative majority said, no. Wasting three months before deciding to take the case (after the appellate court ruled against Trump), which in and of itself is a travesty of justice based on the law, only to set a schedule for oral arguments SEVEN weeks from now.
John Roberts pretends to be concerned about the legacy of the Court bearing his name as chief justice. Yet he and his fellow conservatives have slow walked this case because they know doing so greatly reduces the likelihood time will allow it to go to trial before the election. Just what Trump wants.
