Posted on 04/24/2024 2:43:11 AM PDT by Libloather
Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday implored the judge in charge of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case not to force the government into complying with defense discovery motions.
In January, attorneys for the 45th president accused Smith and his office of myriad discovery violations in a rambling defense filing that also asserted that the genesis of the federal Florida case could be traced to “politically motivated operatives” within President Joe Biden’s administration who launched a “crusade” against their client to hamstring his chances in the 2024 presidential election.
In the government’s response in opposition, Smith aims to methodically pick apart each theory floated by the defense — while trying to convince U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the alleged discovery violations are not only misplaced but irrelevant to the case.
“The defendants have received substantial, timely, and thorough discovery in this case,” the government’s response begins. “By early September 2023, the Government had provided the defendants with over 1.28 million pages of unclassified discovery and all of the CCTV footage obtained in the investigation; since then, the Government has supplemented its production as necessary. This production not only complies with the Government’s constitutional and rule-based discovery obligations; it goes far beyond.”
Trump, for his part, claims the prosecution has been withholding “exculpatory evidence in the hands of the senior officials” at multiple federal agencies including the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Energy, the National Security Agency, and the Department of State.
In their motion to compel discovery, the defense accused those unnamed officials of being engaged in a “lawless mission” to gin up charges against Trump over the retention of the documents in question — with a particular amount of disdain leveled at the intelligence community’s...
(Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...
“By early September 2023, the Government had provided the defendants with over 1.28 million pages of unclassified discovery...”
Those millions of pages should be sufficient for the judge to throw the case out of court on the grounds of extreme legal mischief and Smith should be charged accordingly. Those millions of pages are a giant smokescreen to hide the fact that the government has no case at all.
It just means Smith has no bottom line. If he had, he would lead with it in all ferocity.
“rambling defense.”
Uh-huh.
Who can fire federal judges?
A million pages of docs are not useful if they are not pertinent or are filled with black lines of redactions.
Congress through impeachment and conviction [requires 2/3 vote in the senate]. Appointments are for life.
The latest unredacted releases gave the whole game away.
“Was that 1.28 million pages of filtered unclassified discovery?”
Filtered and Redacted out the Wahzoo. That’s why all the recent wrangling about redactions to be removed. Judge Cannon fnally ordered them to file some docs in unredacted form and they proved Trump’s case regarding DOJ and WH influence and manipulation of the investigation.
Add to that the malodorous manner in which Smith secured his (fake) appointment, and this case should have been sent packing months ago, with prejudice.
So Law & Crime is a biased liberal site
Voters who don't vote for the clymers who put them in office in the first place. A concept the clowns in the GOPe either don't understand or know all too well which is why they consistently work overtime to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Trump: show me the evidence.
Prosecutor to his minions: how many phone books were seized. Count the pages.
Prosecutor to judge: I have provided many pages.
1.200.000 pages is tactic to bury defense in garbage. Typical strategy when you have nothing.
“You stole something.”
“I did not.”
“Yes you did.”
“What?”
“Something important.”
“What is it?”
“It’s so important I can’t show you.”
“Riiiiigghtt.”
Smith has nothing or he would have showed it.
EC
Trump has a right to discovery.
I doubt anyone here believes the FJB cartel and the Just-Us dept are going to hand over millions of unredacted pages. They will slow-walk, delay, file bogus motions, etc until it becomes apparent that the documents must be turned over. Before that happens there will be a giant fire in the warehouse that holds all the originals.
Oh dear, how did that happen ... ??
Presidential records for Barack Obama are governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA). Obama Presidential records became subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on January 20, 2022. ie 5 years after Obama left office per Presidential Records Act.
Press Statement on Public Release of NARA Records Concerning the 15 Boxes Received from Mar-a-Lago in January 2022
Monday, October 3, 2022
Washington, DC
Today, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is releasing documents processed in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for NARA records related to the 15 boxes that we received in January 2022 from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Florida estate.
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2023/nr-23-003
What happens to the five year rule boys with Trump’s records?
It’s a criminal conspiracy, Jack.
yikes...does that article have a heavy lefty bent ?
They are useful to support the story that we gave so much at the office.
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