It is virtually impossible to winkle out the Justice's motives, but since they have decided to be the most political court in U.S. history, and in politics appearances are more important than reality and politicians are judged on appearances, not facts.
And they have plausible deniability. After giving The Orange Terror the delay he so dearly wants, they can rule against his ridiculous absolute immunity claim and say that it was important for the SCOTUS to rule on such an important claim.
There is only one principle operative in the Republican Party, or rather the Party of Trump, the Republican Party no longer exists, and that is Loyalty to the Trump. That is one way loyalty, to Donald Trump, you should expect none coming back the other way.
So, all of the Justices who are beholden to The Donald can express their loyalty, with the delay, but also uphold some semblance of the Rule of Law.
There are no fine points to "settle" here. These justices are not the best legal minds in the country. Those minds have already spoken. Trump's immunity claim should be thrown out of the courts it got in, refused to be considered by courts which can do that, and Trump's lawyers admonished, if not sanctioned, for wasting the courts' time and abusing their patience with clearly ridiculous claims.
But all that Mafia Don wants is a delay, not approval. His plan is to delay, delay, and delay, until he is elected and he can then have his minions pull those cases against him back.
And, of course, one thing he has in abundance is gall. He will claim that the delays he is responsible for will have pushed his trials too close to the election and will declare them as election interference, so they should be delayed until he is out of office.
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