The decision to waive Trump’s executive privilege opened the door for the DOJ to issue Trump a subpoena to turn over documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.
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This is in effect an ex post facto application of law making an event in the past which was legal suddenly illegal.
I was just thinking that exact thing.
President Trump had the same Executive Privilege that everyone of his predecessors had and VOILA…..you’re a bad guy.
If there are any lawyers on here, wouldn’t a perfect affirmative defense be that what I did at that time was 100% legal. They can’t make a new “law” out of whole cloth to make him into a perp.
Weed is legal in Colorado. Joe Schmo smokes it today. Next week, in order to get Joe, they make it illegal and then charge him for something that he did when it was legal.