Everyone looking to the court today to address the Trump charges behind his appeal [View all]

...but the Supreme Court couldn't be bothered to discuss the actual case before them.

The right wing dominated Roberts court held up the Trump election interference trial just to gaslight Americans today about hypotheticals having nothing at all to do with the actual indictments, and spent three hours arguing about those without expressing one objection to any of the charges, or any claim that those crimes alleged had anything to do with their concerns.

They not only refused to talk about the nature of the charges in the Trump indictment, several laughed openly as they rebuffed repeated entreaties from the DOJ attorney to relate their concerns to something, anything in the appeal before them.

The charitable explanation for that behavior is that they have an inflated sense of their own importance; glaringly evident today as they cast aspersions and even scorn on lower court judges and even citizen grand juries.

This Court behaves as if their own opinion and legal efforts are sacrosanct and superior to not only precedent, but to the People, represented by judges and juries adhering to the established law this Supreme Court treats as inferior and perpetually subservient to their own dominant role in overseeing it all.

The most offensive, though, is the way this Court takes no responsibility for anything other than formulating opinions. They signal or express zero concern about the violent insurrection, even downplaying it by positing about the president leading a peaceful protest; or characterizing the mob chasing legislators from the House floor with an aide barely scooping up the election certificates as a temporary delay- instead of the clear subversion of democracy which horrified and stunned the vast majority of Americans.

The worst explanation for their interference is the evident one; that they're in this for interference sake; that the republican appointed SC justices are running a cynical and deliberate defense against Trump prosecutions they disagree with.

It might be understandable if there had been a trial on which to base those objections on, instead of this naked, compromising bias from at least three justices toward the man who appointed them to the bench.

Considering an appeal AFTER a verdict is the normal course for a court which is supposed to respect the normal process of prosecutions - not looking for ways to take down charges in manner which completely ignores the facts in the case, and threatening to completely obscure and bury those facts in an arbitrary dismissal of charges.

This is just a delay for delay sake, with the Supreme Court assuming the role of the lower courts without ANY of the obligations of evidence; and without even the means to determine the validity or value of the evidence in this case; the case before them that they're deliberately ignoring.

When will this Court take responsibility for more than just protecting Donald Trump (and, by extension, his co-conspirators) from prosecution?