trump s case probably doing battle with multiple federal judges and multiple counts. this week alone was the d.c. circuit cut put his screams of presidential immunity temporarily on ice reminding him for the purposes of this criminal case, former president donald trump has become citizen trump, with all the defenses of any other criminal defendant. there were the nine supreme court justices who regardless of how they ultimately rule on the 14th amendment case sure sounded like they were not enjoying getting drawn into the nonstop cyclone of chaos that is donald j. trump. those keeping score at home, it is t-minus 72 hours till trump s legal team must file their appeal to the supreme court in the presidential immunity case, an appeal that must somehow convince those nine supreme court justices to agree to hear yet another trump case. that s just the cases we spent all week talking about. we also saw the judge, trump s civil fraud trial, judge engoran days away from ruling on t
involving police and your cell phone. privacy rights versus police going after alleged criminals. sensitive issue. and actually a very simple issue when you think about it. everybody knows that when the police arrest you they can pat you down. the question in this case is let s say they find a cell phone as is often the case. can they read what s on your phone without getting a warrant? and unanimously the courts said no. you need a warrant. they said, look, it s not accurate to call them phones anymore because they have text messages. they have internet records and emails and photographs. there s more information in your phone about you than there probably is in your apartment. so the courts said you need a warrant and i thought it made a lot of sense. it did to those nine supreme court justices. the conservatives and the liberals all nine of them unanimously agreed. how unusual is that? at the end of the year, the supreme court only has two more days for opinions. tomorrow and