Semantics Relevance

Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump's Immunity in Unexpected ...


Logical Analysis Report (click to view);
Knowledge Map (click to view)
*Knowledge Map Navigation: Spatial co-ordinations are initially random, and will automatically re-arrange to minimize complexity based on distance between relationships. Mouse down and drag to pan. Right click on the strategic diagram toggles between motion and stationary. Hover over abstract node (orange) to view abstractions. Hover over leaf node to view corresponding narrative. Left click on the leaf node expands the narrative to view full text.

Knowledge Diagram Navigation:

Spatial co-ordinations are initially random, and will automatically re-arrange to minimize complexity based on distance between relationships. Mouse down and drag to pan. Right click on the strategic diagram toggles between motion and stationary. Hover over abstract node (orange) to view abstractions. Hover over leaf node to view corresponding narrative. Left click on the leaf node expands the narrative to view full text.

Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • "You're saying that he couldn't be prosecuted for that, even after a conviction and impeachment proceeding, if there was not a statute that expressly referenced the president and made it criminal for the president.". . Correct, Mr. Sauer said.. . The court will issue its ruling sometime between now and early July ...
  • Sauer added another requirement to holding a former president accountable. Not only must there first be impeachment and conviction in Congress, but the criminal statute in question must also clearly specify in so many words, as very few do, that it applies to the president ...
  • Thursday's Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments - but very little about the former president's conduct. ...
  • Before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday on former President Donald J. ...
  • No momentum supporting factor found

    Challenge supporting factors

  • (president,court)
  • (president,election)
  • (president,sauer,criminal)
  • (president,sauer,rights)
  • (president,sauer,court)
  • (president,sauer,civil)
  • (president,military)
  • (president,conservative)
  • (president,alito)
  • (president,society)
  • (court,trump,judge)
  • (court,trump,distill)
  • (court,trump,conservative)
  • (court,criminal,president)
  • (court,criminal,professor_murray)
  • Work-in-progress supporting factors

  • (president,supreme_court)
  • (president,sauer,impeachment)
  • (court,criminal,impeachment)
  • (court,impeachment)
  • (president,impeachment)
  • (president,criminal)
  • (president,sauer,criminal)
  • (president,sauer,sketched)
  • (president,sketched)
  • (president,sauer,question)
  • (president,sauer,military)
  • (court,election)
  • (president,sauer,justice_barrett)
  • (president,sauer,congress)
  • (election,question)

  • Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report40.40 0.00 59.60

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
    (1) (president,supreme_court)100.00
    (2) (president,sauer,impeachment)93.60
    (3) (president,sauer,criminal)90.83
    (4) (president,court)83.56
    (5) (president,military)82.35
    (6) (president,election)81.14
    (7) (president,conservative)79.24
    (8) (president,alito)78.03
    (9) (court,criminal,impeachment)75.43
    (10) (court,trump,conservative)63.32
    (11) (court,criminal,president)59.00
    (12) (court,impeachment)55.19
    (13) (president,impeachment)47.58
    (14) (president,criminal)46.19
    (15) (president,sauer,sketched)44.81
    (16) (president,sketched)44.64
    (17) (president,sauer,rights)44.46
    (18) (president,sauer,question)44.29
    (19) (president,sauer,military)43.94
    (20) (court,election)43.77
    (21) (president,sauer,justice_barrett)43.60
    (22) (president,sauer,court)42.39
    (23) (president,sauer,congress)42.04
    (24) (president,sauer,civil)41.70
    (25) (election,question)41.18
    (26) (trump,conservative,question)40.83
    (27) (trump,question)40.14
    (28) (president,society)38.75
    (29) (president,self-awareness)38.58
    (30) (court,question,weighty)38.06
    (31) (court,trump,weighty)37.89
    (32) (court,weighty)37.54
    (33) (election,weighty)37.37
    (34) (trump,conservative,weighty)37.20
    (35) (trump,weighty)36.85
    (36) (court,subvert)36.68
    (37) (court,trump,subvert)36.16
    (38) (election,subvert)35.81
    (39) (trump,conservative,subvert)35.64
    (40) (trump,subvert)35.29
    (41) (court,trump,question)34.95
    (42) (court,trump,justice_amy_coney_barrett)33.74
    (43) (trump,conservative,justice_amy_coney_barrett)33.56
    (44) (court,trump,judge)33.39
    (45) (court,trump,election)32.35
    (46) (court,trump,distill)32.01
    (47) (court,question,president)27.16
    (48) (court,question,impeachment)24.91
    (49) (court,criminal,question)23.36
    (50) (court,criminal,professor_murray)21.97
    (51) (court,professor_murray)21.63
    (52) (court,criminal,professor_karlan)20.42
    (53) (court,professor_karlan)19.90
    (54) (court,question,election)19.03
    (55) (court,criminal,presidential)18.86
    (56) (court,criminal,liability)17.65
    (57) (court,liability)16.61
    (58) (court,criminal,immunized)16.26
    (59) (court,criminal,donald_trump)14.88
    (60) (court,criminal,congress)13.32
    (61) (court,question,congress)11.25
    (62) (court,question,subvert)8.65
    (63) (court,question,immune)8.13
    (64) (court,question,brazen)7.96
    (65) (court,staid)6.92
    (66) (election,trump)6.06
    (67) (election,political)5.88
    (68) (election,hotly)5.71
    (69) (election,destabilizes)5.54
    (70) (election,democracy)5.36
    (71) (election,criminally)5.19
    (72) (election,country)5.02
    (73) (trump,supreme_court,president_donald)4.84
    (74) (trump,president)4.67
    (75) (trump,supreme_court,president)4.50
    (76) (trump,supreme_court,memorable)4.33
    (77) (trump,supreme_court,internments)4.15
    (78) (trump,supreme_court,immune)3.98
    (79) (trump,conservative,donald_trump)3.81
    (80) (trump,supreme_court,donald_trump)3.63
    (81) (trump,supreme_court,coups)3.46
    (82) (trump,supreme_court,brazen)3.29
    (83) (trump,supreme_court,assassinations)3.11
    (84) (trump,conservative,president)2.77
    (85) (trump,conservative,election)2.08
    (86) (trump,conservative,supreme_court)1.73
    (87) (trump,conservative,sketched)1.56
    (88) (trump,sketched)1.21
    (89) (trump,conservative,sauer)1.04
    (90) (trump,sauer)0.69
    (91) (trump,conservative,justice_barrett)0.52
    (92) (trump,questions)0.35
    (93) (trump,professor)0.17

    Back to top of page

    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • "You're saying that he couldn't be prosecuted for that, even after a conviction and impeachment proceeding, if there was not a statute that expressly referenced the president and made it criminal for the president.". . Correct, Mr. Sauer said.. . The court will issue its ruling sometime between now and early July ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,criminal,president)
        • (president,sauer,criminal)
        • Inferred entity relationships (11)
        • (court,criminal,immunized) [inferred]
        • (president,sauer,sketched) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_murray) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,impeachment) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,presidential) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,liability) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_karlan) [inferred]
        • (criminal,president) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,donald_trump) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,question) [inferred]
        • (criminal,president,sauer) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Could that have been charged, he asked, as a conspiracy against civil rights.. . Prompted by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, Mr. Sauer added another requirement to holding a former president accountable ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,sauer,civil)
        • (president,sauer,rights)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (president,sauer,sketched) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • "You're saying that he couldn't be prosecuted for that, even after a conviction and impeachment proceeding, if there was not a statute that expressly referenced the president and made it criminal for the president.". . Correct, Mr. Sauer said.. . The court will issue its ruling sometime between now and early July. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,court)
        • (president,sauer,court)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (president,sauer,sketched) [inferred]
        • (court,president,question) [inferred]
        • (court,president) [inferred]
        • (court,president,sauer) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • . "If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him," Justice Jackson asked, "is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,military)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (military,president,sauer) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Immunity is needed, he said, to make sure the incumbent president has reason to "leave office peacefully" after losing an election.. . Justice Alito explained: "If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,election)
        • (election,hotly)
        • (president,alito)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Justice Clarence Thomas, who participated in the case despite his wife Virginia Thomas's own vigorous efforts to overturn the election, was not so sure.. . "In the not-so-distant past, the president or certain presidents have engaged in various activity, coups or operations like Operation Mongoose when I was a teenager, and yet there were no prosecutions," he said, referring to the Kennedy administration's efforts to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,election)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • That seemed a little much for Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the member of the court's conservative wing who appeared most troubled by the sweep of Mr. Trump's arguments. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,trump,conservative)
        • (president,court)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (court,trump,weighty) [inferred]
        • (court,president,question) [inferred]
        • (court,president,sauer) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • That seemed a little much for Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the member of the court's conservative wing who appeared most troubled by the sweep of Mr. Trump's arguments.. . Returning to "Justice Kagan's example of a president who orders a coup," Justice Barrett sketched out what she understood to be Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,conservative)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (conservative,president,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • said, instead positing an alternate reality in which a grant of immunity "is required for the functioning of a stable democratic society, which is something that we all want.". . Immunity is needed, he said, to make sure the incumbent president has reason to "leave office peacefully" after losing an election. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,society)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Sending the case back to the trial judge, she said, "to distill out the official from the private acts in some kind of granular detail essentially gives Trump everything he wants, whether the court calls it immunity or not." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,trump,judge)
        • (court,trump,distill)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • "If that's the case," Professor Murray said, "that could further delay the prospect of a trial, which means that whatever is ultimately decided about the scope and substance of presidential immunity, the court will have effectively immunized Donald Trump from criminal liability in this case." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,criminal,professor_murray)
        • (court,criminal,presidential)
        • (court,professor_murray)
        • Inferred entity relationships (9)
        • (court,criminal,immunized) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_murray) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,impeachment) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,president) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,presidential) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,liability) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_karlan) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,donald_trump) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,question) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • "If that's the case," Professor Murray said, "that could further delay the prospect of a trial, which means that whatever is ultimately decided about the scope and substance of presidential immunity, the court will have effectively immunized Donald Trump from criminal liability in this case.". . There is a live prospect, Professor Karlan said, that "there won't be a trial until sometime well into 2025, if then." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,criminal,professor_karlan)
        • (court,criminal,donald_trump)
        • (court,criminal,immunized)
        • (court,professor_karlan)
        • (court,liability)
        • (court,criminal,liability)
        • Inferred entity relationships (9)
        • (court,criminal,immunized) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_murray) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,impeachment) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,president) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,presidential) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,liability) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_karlan) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,donald_trump) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,question) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution, his stance was widely seen as a brazen and cynical bid to delay his trial. The practical question in the case, it was thought, was not whether the court would rule against him but whether it would act quickly enough to allow the trial to go forward before the 2024 election ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,question,brazen)
        • (court,question,immune)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (court,question,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,question,subvert) [inferred]
        • (court,question,weighty) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • "If the potential for criminal liability is taken off the table, wouldn't there be a significant risk that future presidents would be emboldened to commit crimes with abandon while they're in office." she asked.. . Supreme Court arguments are usually dignified and staid, weighed down by impenetrable jargon and focused on subtle shifts in legal doctrine. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,staid)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Justice Alito explained: "If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (election,criminally)
        • (election,political)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Justice Alito explained: "If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy.". ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (election,destabilizes)
        • (election,country)
        • (election,democracy)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • . . Before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday on former President Donald J. Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution, his stance was widely seen as a brazen and cynical bid to delay his trial ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supreme_court,president_donald)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday on former President Donald J. Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution, his stance was widely seen as a brazen and cynical bid to delay his trial. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supreme_court,brazen)
        • (trump,supreme_court,immune)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • That seemed a little much for Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the member of the court's conservative wing who appeared most troubled by the sweep of Mr. Trump's arguments.. . Returning to "Justice Kagan's example of a president who orders a coup," Justice Barrett sketched out what she understood to be Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,conservative,president)
        • (trump,president)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (conservative,president) [inferred]
        • (president,trump) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Trump's arguments.. . Returning to "Justice Kagan's example of a president who orders a coup," Justice Barrett sketched out what she understood to be Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,conservative,justice_barrett)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Thursday's Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments - but very little about the former president's conduct. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,supreme_court)
        • (trump,supreme_court,president)
        • (trump,supreme_court,coups)
        • (trump,supreme_court,assassinations)
        • (trump,supreme_court,internments)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (president,supreme_court) [inferred]
        • (president,supreme_court,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . . Before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday on former President Donald J. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,supreme_court)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (president,supreme_court,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "You're saying that he couldn't be prosecuted for that, even after a conviction and impeachment proceeding, if there was not a statute that expressly referenced the president and made it criminal for the president." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,sauer,impeachment)
        • (court,criminal,impeachment)
        • (court,impeachment)
        • Inferred entity relationships (11)
        • (court,criminal,immunized) [inferred]
        • (impeachment,president) [inferred]
        • (president,sauer,sketched) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_murray) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,president) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,presidential) [inferred]
        • (court,impeachment,question) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,liability) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_karlan) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,donald_trump) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,question) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Sauer added another requirement to holding a former president accountable. Not only must there first be impeachment and conviction in Congress, but the criminal statute in question must also clearly specify in so many words, as very few do, that it applies to the president ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,sauer,impeachment)
        • (president,sauer,criminal)
        • (president,sauer,question)
        • (president,impeachment)
        • (president,criminal)
        • (president,sauer,congress)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (impeachment,president) [inferred]
        • (criminal,president) [inferred]
        • (impeachment,president,sauer) [inferred]
        • (president,sauer,sketched) [inferred]
        • (criminal,president,sauer) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Returning to "Justice Kagan's example of a president who orders a coup," Justice Barrett sketched out what she understood to be Mr. Sauer's position. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,sauer,sketched)
        • (president,sketched)
        • (president,sauer,justice_barrett)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (president,sauer,sketched) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "How about," she said, "if a president orders the military to stage a coup.". . Mr. Sauer, after not a little back and forth, said that "it could well be" an official act ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,sauer,military)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (military,president) [inferred]
        • (president,sauer,sketched) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Justice Elena Kagan also gave it a go. "How about," she said, "if a president orders the military to stage a coup.". . Mr. Sauer, after not a little back and forth, said that "it could well be" an official act ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,military)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (military,president,sauer) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Michael Dorf, a law professor at Cornell, said that "the apparent lack of self-awareness on the part of some of the conservative justices was startling." He noted that "Justice Alito worried about a hypothetical future president attempting to hold onto power in response to the risk of prosecution, while paying no attention to the actual former president who held onto power and now seeks to escape prosecution." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (president,conservative)
        • (president,alito)
        • (president,self-awareness)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (conservative,president,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Trump's assertion that he could not face charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election as a weighty and difficult question. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,weighty)
        • (election,weighty)
        • (election,question)
        • (court,question,subvert)
        • (court,trump,question)
        • (trump,conservative,question)
        • (court,question,weighty)
        • (court,trump,weighty)
        • (trump,weighty)
        • (trump,question)
        • (court,question,election)
        • (trump,conservative,weighty)
        • Inferred entity relationships (8)
        • (court,question,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,election) [inferred]
        • (election,question) [inferred]
        • (question,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,question,subvert) [inferred]
        • (trump,weighty) [inferred]
        • (court,election,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,question,weighty) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Instead, members of the court's conservative majority treated Mr. Trump's assertion that he could not face charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election as a weighty and difficult question. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,election)
        • (court,trump,election)
        • (court,subvert)
        • (election,subvert)
        • (court,trump,subvert)
        • (trump,subvert)
        • (trump,conservative,subvert)
        • Inferred entity relationships (7)
        • (court,election) [inferred]
        • (subvert,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,subvert,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,election,question) [inferred]
        • (court,election,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,subvert) [inferred]
        • (election,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • That seemed a little much for Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the member of the court's conservative wing who appeared most troubled by the sweep of Mr ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,trump,justice_amy_coney_barrett)
        • (trump,conservative,justice_amy_coney_barrett)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . Instead, members of the court's conservative majority treated Mr. Trump's assertion that he could not face charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election as a weighty and difficult question ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,trump,conservative)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (court,trump,weighty) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Not only must there first be impeachment and conviction in Congress, but the criminal statute in question must also clearly specify in so many words, as very few do, that it applies to the president. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,criminal,president)
        • (court,impeachment)
        • (court,question,president)
        • Inferred entity relationships (14)
        • (court,criminal,immunized) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_murray) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,impeachment) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,presidential) [inferred]
        • (court,impeachment,question) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,liability) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_karlan) [inferred]
        • (criminal,president) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,donald_trump) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,question) [inferred]
        • (court,president) [inferred]
        • (criminal,president,sauer) [inferred]
        • (court,president,sauer) [inferred]
        • (president,question,sauer) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Not only must there first be impeachment and conviction in Congress, but the criminal statute in question must also clearly specify in so many words, as very few do, that it applies to the president ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (court,criminal,question)
        • (court,criminal,congress)
        • (court,question,impeachment)
        • (court,question,congress)
        • (court,criminal,impeachment)
        • Inferred entity relationships (15)
        • (court,criminal,immunized) [inferred]
        • (court,question,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,question,subvert) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_murray) [inferred]
        • (court,impeachment) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,impeachment) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,president) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,presidential) [inferred]
        • (congress,court,question) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,liability) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,professor_karlan) [inferred]
        • (court,question,weighty) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,donald_trump) [inferred]
        • (court,criminal,question) [inferred]
        • (congress,court,criminal) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The practical question in the case, it was thought, was not whether the court would rule against him but whether it would act quickly enough to allow the trial to go forward before the 2024 election. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,conservative,question)
        • (trump,question)
        • (court,question,election)
        • (court,election)
        • (election,question)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (court,election) [inferred]
        • (court,election,trump) [inferred]
        • (election,question) [inferred]
        • (question,trump) [inferred]
        • (court,election,question) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The practical question in the case, it was thought, was not whether the court would rule against him but whether it would act quickly enough to allow the trial to go forward before the 2024 election.. . Instead, members of the court's conservative majority treated Mr. Trump's assertion that he could not face charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election as a weighty and difficult question ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (election,trump)
        • (trump,conservative,election)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (election,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Thursday's Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments - but very little about the former president's conduct ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supreme_court,memorable)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Indeed, she said, "if Donald Trump is a harbinger of presidents to come, and from now on presidents refuse to leave office and engage in efforts to undermine the democratic process, we've lost our democracy regardless what the Supreme Court decides." ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,supreme_court,donald_trump)
        • (trump,conservative,donald_trump)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Thursday's Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments - but very little about the former president's conduct.. . . Before the Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday on former President Donald J ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,president)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Indeed, she said, "if Donald Trump is a harbinger of presidents to come, and from now on presidents refuse to leave office and engage in efforts to undermine the democratic process, we've lost our democracy regardless what the Supreme Court decides.". . The conservative justices did not seem concerned that Mr. Trump's lawyer, D ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,conservative,supreme_court)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Returning to "Justice Kagan's example of a president who orders a coup," Justice Barrett sketched out what she understood to be Mr. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,conservative,sketched)
        • (trump,sketched)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (sketched,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Indeed, she said, "if Donald Trump is a harbinger of presidents to come, and from now on presidents refuse to leave office and engage in efforts to undermine the democratic process, we've lost our democracy regardless what the Supreme Court decides.". . The conservative justices did not seem concerned that Mr. Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer, said his client was free during his presidency to commit lawless acts, subject to prosecution only after impeachment by the House and conviction in the Senate ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,conservative,sauer)
        • (trump,sauer)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (sauer,trump) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • (There have been four presidential impeachments, two of Mr. Trump, and no convictions.). . Liberal justices asked whether he was serious, posing hypothetical questions. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,questions)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • They did so, said Pamela Karlan, a law professor at Stanford, by averting their eyes from Mr. Trump's conduct.. . "What struck me most about the case was the relentless efforts by several of the justices on the conservative side not to focus on, consider or even acknowledge the facts of the actual case in front of them," she said ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (trump,professor)