Mary Trump Sounds Alarm About 'Worst Thing' Done by Supreme Court
A view of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, June 13, 2024. Inset, Mary Trump attends Jim Owles Winter Pride Gala Award Ceremony at Hard Rock Cafe - Times Square on January 20, 2023, in New York City.
Mary Trump, former President Donald Trump's estranged niece, on Thursday sounded the alarm about the Supreme Court's "worst thing."
On the latest episode of her YouTube show Nerd Avengers, Mary, a frequent critic of her uncle, called out the Supreme Court—which consists of six conservative-leaning justices, three of whom were nominated by the ex-president, and three liberal-leaning jurists—for not rendering a decision on her uncle's immunity claim.
Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has pleaded not guilty to four federal felony counts related to his activities surrounding the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol. In the attack, his supporters stormed Washington, D.C.'s iconic landmark in a failed attempt to halt Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory following claims from Trump that the election was stolen from him via widespread voter fraud. There is no such evidence to support Trump's allegations.
In an effort to appeal the D.C. election interference case against him, Trump's legal team argues that he has immunity from prosecution because he was still in office during the attack. The case worked its way up to the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in April. After weeks of silence on Trump's claim and as the High Court's term is nearing its end, the American public still awaits a crucial decision by the nine justices.
"What are we going to do?" Mary Trump asked political scientist Norm Ornstein on her show. "We're sitting here on tenterhooks waiting for more horrific decisions to drop from the Supreme Court. The term is almost over and there's still 19 decisions pending. Three of them are absolutely enormous for the implications of the future of this country."
Mary continued: "And yet, Norm, the worst thing they did today was nothing. How is it possible that they have not yet figured out what to do with a question that never should have been asked about presidential immunity?"
Ornstein, senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank, replied: "What seems crystal-clear to me, Mary, is that this is a deliberate decision on the part of the Supreme Court—which we knew from the get-go when they took this case unnecessarily in the first instance—to hold it until the very last minute and make it clear that there would be no way to hold a trial for Donald Trump on any of the things that are really the most significant."
He added: "This is a shameful action or set of actions by the Supreme Court. And there's no other explanation that I can see."
Newsweek reached out to the Supreme Court via online form and Mary Trump's Substack blog via email for comment on Thursday.
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