CNN’s Elie Honig Debunks Supreme Court Conspiracy Theory Over Trump Immunity Delay: It’s Moving at ‘Lightning Speed’

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig debunked the conspiracy theory that the Supreme Court is intentionally dragging its feet in Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case on Thursday, arguing that the Court is actuallymoving at “lightning speed” to decide it.

A New York Times opinion piece published earlier this week suggested that there was “something rotten” about the Court not having released its opinion in the case yet, purportedly to prevent Trump’s federal January 6 case from going to trial before the election. CNN’s own star anchor, Kaitlan Collins, also peddled the baseless accusation on her own show Wednesday.

“I respectfully dissent from that view,” began Honig after Manu Raju read the headline of the Times piece aloud. “I do not think something’s necessarily rotten or erroneous or out of the ordinary. Let’s put this in perspective: Watergate was a different era, the Supreme Court just doesn’t function like that anymore. And Watergate involved the sitting president under an active criminal investigation. I understand the stakes here, but let’s put this in perspective.”

He continued:

The Trump immunity case, first of all, was the last case argued. All the other cases that Joan [Biskupic] referenced were all argued many months before. Second of all, it’s completely normal to get this sort of case dump in late June, sometimes into early July. This is when we get the big decisions. Third of all — everyone, relax — we are going to have this opinion within, maybe tomorrow, maybe within a week, but sometime really soon. And finally, if you look at the actual timeframe here, the Trump immunity decision was rendered at the district court, Judge [Tanya] Chutkan, in December.  To go from a district court ruling to a Supreme Court ruling in seven months is lightning speed.

“I understand everyone wants this as soon as possible. I understand the widely felt — not universal — but widely felt desire to get this case back to the district court so if there’s going to be a trial, it can be held before the election,” concluded Honig. “But I think people are sort of maybe venting some anxiety inappropriately at the Supreme Court. And by the way, if you want to vent at somebody. look at DOJ who took two and a half years to charge this case, not the Supreme Court that’s taking a grand total of a few months to decide it.”

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