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SCREENSHOT: CNN House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan broke down the major “flaw” in the indictment against former President Donald Trump Sunday on CNN with Dana Bash. Trump announced the indictment Thursday, ahead of the official indictment being unsealed Friday. The charges against Trump include 31 counts of alleged violation of the Espionage Act or the willful retention of national security information, as well as one count of “conspiracy to obstruct justice,” one count of “withholding a document or record,” one count of corruptly concealing a documents or record,” one count of “concealing a documents in a deferral investigation,” one count...

The difference between the Clinton emails and Trump's papers is in the investigation.The FBI’s warrant for its Mar-a-Lago raid invoked the Espionage Act which meant that we were always going to end up here. The focus on Clinton ally Jack Smith’s indictment has been the Espionage Act despite its obvious inappropriateness when it comes to a former president.The Wall Street Journal spells out the problem.The indictment levels 37 charges against Mr. Trump that are related to his handling of classified documents, including at his Mar-a-Lago club, since he left the White House. Thirty-one of the counts are for violating the...

The National Archives is claiming it has evidence that may undercut Trump’s claims that the presidential records he took to Mar-a-Lago were automatically declassified, according to a leak to CNN. Trump says the documents were declassified as soon as he took them to Mar-a-Lago. Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall however, claims there is evidence Trump and his advisors knew of a so-called declassification process. Steidel Wall sent Trump a letter informing him the National Archives are going to give Special Counsel Jack Smith 16 records which may prove the documents were not automatically declassified. And the witch hunt continues. CNN...

The Right to Resist an Abuse of Power by Michael Davies The Redemptorist Christian Encounter is one of the most widely read Sunday bulletins circulating in Britain. Its issue of 11 May 1975 contained a short account of the life of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, who was born in 1175, or thereabouts, and died in 1253. The fact that 1975 may mark the eighth centenary of his birth could account for the article. It is a matter for regret that the few brief details given in the bulletin will be all that most of its readers will ever learn...