Here’s what I’m thinking. Now, keep in mind, I’m using TrumpMAGA logic here, not those little things like intelligence, common sense, existing precedent, etc. Those things don’t matter in Trumpworld.

By bringing this case up to the Supreme Court, he is getting a federal court involved in a state criminal case.

By Trump logic, this would now make the case a federal case.

If it is a federal case, that means Trump can pardon himself.

This also means that all cases are ultimately federal cases in the end since they all eventually end up before the Supreme Court.

This also means Trump can pardon himself or anyone else for state crimes. Given the Supreme Court’s historic love for just making up new powers for itself, I can easily see the Supreme Court going along with this because that would give them all sorts of broad new powers as well, since they’d be essentially able to more directly interfere in state cases. Throw in a twisted interpretation of the Supremacy clause, and maybe sprinkle in something carved in a stone tablet from ancient Rome for good measure, and I could easily see the SC going along with this on 6-3 party lines.

And then with that out of the way, he can build on that to get other things like his case against E. Jean Carroll completely reversed, have his other civil cases sealed, dismissed, reversed, or whatever, and be able to expand his bribery and corruption by dangling not only federal but essentially state pardons as well.

That’s what scares me about this. It doesn’t make sense for him to want to get the supreme court involved in a meaningless case that has all but been dismissed anyway. As the saying goes, I don’t think this is the end. It may only be the beginning.