Posted on 10/15/2025 5:24:42 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases against Donald Trump, spoke out against the Trump administration in a rare interview posted Tuesday.
Smith, who resigned from the Justice Department in January shortly before Trump returned to office as president, warned that attacks on public servants would have an “incalculable” cost on the country.
“I think the attacks on public servants, particularly nonpartisan public servants — I think it has a cost for our country that is incalculable, and I think that we — it’s hard to communicate to folks how much that is going to cost us,” Smith said in an interview last week with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman at University College London Faculty of Laws, where Weissman is a visiting professor.
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Jack Smith speaks out against the Trump administration, in a foreign country, in rare interview.
How fitting.
I think the attacks on public servants, particularly nonpartisan public servants ????
nonpartisan??? Really?
Smith said in an interview last week with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman at University College London Faculty of Laws, where Weissman is a visiting professor.
This pos doesn’t care, of course, that everyone he went after was a “public servant”.
And that President Trump is an overwhelmingly ELECTED public servant.
“attacks against public servants”. Trump is the ultimate public servant, and is attacked every day by scum such as Smith.
Lock him up
“I think the attacks on public servants, particularly nonpartisan public servants — I think it has a cost for our country that is incalculable”
Perfectly ok to spy on anyone though. What an ass wipe.
Hit the road, Jack (oh I guess you did)
Don’t you come back
No more
No more
No more
No more
I suppose Smith considers himself one of those “non-partisan public servants”.
Nail him to the court house door.
I’m noticing a trend. Jacinda Ardern, imho, fled New Zealand after inflicting the Covid terror. Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland seem to have been out of the spotlight as well. Klaus Schwab has been pushed out-although Larry Fink seems to have his rat claws dug into the WEF.
From a guy who had a position unconstitutionally.
public servants include past presidents, right?
Past presidents who announce they’re running again din’t count in the minds of Jack Smith, Andrew Weissman, or NBC for that matter.
So Jack is no longer a public servant. Excellent.
This is what to me is so bewildering: they actually think that they are nonpartisan.
Jack Smith is choking! He knows what he did.
Did President Auto Pen give *him* a pardon too?
Sounds like Jackoff Smith is running scared
By Debra Cassens WeissDecember 21, 2023,
Constitutional Law
Special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional, leaving him powerless to obtain a quick U.S. Supreme Court decision on immunity claims by former President Donald Trump, according to an amicus brief signed by former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and two law professors.
“Not clothed in the authority of the federal government, Smith is a modern example of the naked emperor,” the Dec. 20 amicus brief argues. “Improperly appointed, he has no more authority to represent the United States in this court than Bryce Harper, Taylor Swift or Jeff Bezos.”
The law professors who co-wrote the brief with Meese are Steven G. Calabresi of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and Gary S. Lawson of the Boston University School of Law.
Calabresi summarized the arguments in a post for the Volokh Conspiracy.
The brief argues that Attorney General Merrick Garland “exceeded his statutory and constitutional authority” when he appointed Smith in November 2022. Because Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional, “every action that he has taken since his appointment is now null and void,” Calabresi argued at the Volokh Conspiracy.
Smith—who was not nominated to be special counsel by President Joe Biden or confirmed by the U.S. Senate—has nationwide jurisdiction, making him more powerful that any of the 93 Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys, Calabresi said. Federal law allows the attorney general to appoint attorneys to assist U.S. attorneys but not to replace them, he wrote.
The argument is that the appointments clause requires all federal offices “not otherwise provided for” in the Constitution to be established by law. Yet there is no statute establishing the Office of Special Counsel within the U.S. Department of Justice. Nor is there a statute allowing the attorney general to appoint an inferior officer special counsel with the powers given to Smith. And inferior officers, in any event, must be controlled by a superior officer, but Garland doesn’t have that power over Smith under DOJ regulations.
The appointments clause makes clear that the “default mode” of appointment for all officers is presidential nomination, Senate confirmation and presidential appointment, the brief says.
There is a proper way to appoint a special counsel like Smith, Calabresi said at the Volokh Conspiracy. Garland should “ask one of the very best Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys now in office to prosecute the cases arising out of the events of Jan. 6, 2021, or the misuse of classified documents case, to be special counsel” with nationwide authority.
The attorney general could then appoint Smith to be the special counsel’s special assistant, and the Trump cases could then be “restarted from scratch” Calabresi wrote.
“We do not want future U.S. attorney generals, such as the ones Donald Trump might appoint, if he is reelected in 2024, to be able to pick any tough thug lawyer off the street and empower him in the way Attorney General Merrick Garland has empowered private citizen Jack Smith,” Calabresi wrote. “Think of what that would have led to during the McCarthy era.”
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