Posted on 08/30/2024 10:28:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Special counsel Jack Smith tried to strike a careful balance in the revised indictment he brought against Donald Trump on Tuesday — hoping to salvage enough of his election-interference case to get it to a jury without running afoul of the Supreme Court’s new and vague definition of presidential immunity.
A day earlier, Smith filed an appeal in his other prosecution of the former president, hoping to resurrect the classified documents indictment that a trial judge had thrown out.
In both instances, Smith is trying to nurse back to health cases with potentially fatal ailments: in Florida, a set of charges dismissed by a highly skeptical Trump appointee; in D.C., a case of alleged election obstruction that the nation’s highest court has already amputated once, and may do so again.
The fate of each case is very much a political question, not just a legal one. Trump is again running for president, and both the revised indictment and the Florida appeal face months of proceedings that will prevent a trial before the upcoming election.
If Trump returns to the White House, his Justice Department would almost certainly drop the federal cases against him. If he loses, Smith is signaling he plans to push ahead, with Trump likely to spend months or years after the election in court.
The revised D.C. indictment, known as a superseding indictment, reflects some carefully calculated decisions and legal maneuvering, according to legal experts. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to grant broad criminal immunity to presidents left much for lower courts to decide on what is an official presidential act that cannot be prosecuted and what is a private one that could be subject to criminal charges.
Smith concluded, for example, that some conversations about...
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Smith needs his law license pulled. The bass turd is a political hack.
I was thinking the same thing myself and it has been blatant election interference since the day Smith was illegally hired.
>> Smith needs his law license pulled.
... and his neck stretched.
It is election interference, as is the WaPo’s IDIOTIC take on this — “nourishing back to health” a completely ILLEGAL case brought by a ILLEGALLY “appointed” Special Counsel that does not follow the LAW requiring the Senate to approve in the first place.
Utter Bullcrap. And Smith SHOULD be disbarred along with Merrick Garland. Both are psychopaths— frankly.
How abt NO. You were never approved as Sp Council. Why is no one on this
Democrats have repeatedly bragged about "dragging Republicans along" until it no longer suits their needs, and then they will not hesitate to "pull the trigger" on whatever the next steps in their plan are.
-PJ
Jack Smith can always be counted on for a “bump up” in the polls.
BTW the guy looks, speaks, & acts like a weirdo.
Smith is seditious, trying to introduce non-Constitutional European standards of prosecution in to the US.
Well ol’ Jack is going to be on the unemployment line the day Trump takes office, so he better enjoy it now.
Correction to Stein and Dowsey:
It is ONLY a political question. The legal side isn’t justice, but rather Lawfare bent on Trump losing the election.
In other words, illegal election interference.
How does this jackass “Smith” have any authority to indict anything?
Indeed. The man has no authority, just raw usurped power.
When he wasn’t legally appointed to the job of doing so three monkey media mum.
HOW INTERESTING THAT THIS THREAD HAS THE LAST 4 NUMBERS: 1776
Will no one rid us of these turbulent anti-American, anti-Christian hit men?
I hope Trump gets elected and puts Jack Smith in jail for the rest of his life for treason, sedition and election interference. He should be put in the cell with a J6 prisoner. That would be the just way he meets his end.
According to these same villains, everything Nixon did was “hunting” or “persecuting” political opponents including keeping an enemies list. That sorry paper made movies patting itself on the back for Watergate.
But when the parties are reversed, they wag their tails and wave poms poms.
And Nixon never even did anything to the people who were on his lists. He just made lists
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