Dawn right it is. Repubs never fight back and dems kill us. Ask the j6 political prisoner who left jail w stage 4 cancer and died. Dems will gleefully kill us. STOP giving them the benefit of the doubt. KILL THEM BACK.
The Supremes have a chance — in this case and in a couple others — to reign in the federal bureaucracy and let people like Garland know that they cannot make laws all by themselves. Congress makes laws and civil servants do not. There are laws that define how a Special Counsel is created. Garland’s casual attempt to make a Special Counsel on a whim should not be allowed.
What’s also interesting is that Meese filed the amicus brief with SCOTUS in the case about the use of the Enron statute for the J6 prosecutions. I wonder if SCOTUS will rule on this in any manner before Cannon has to issue a ruling.
Jackboot Smith is an evil cretin. The End.
” Cannon pointedly asked the prosecution “Did the attorney general have any oversight role in seeking the indictment?”
James Pearce, attorney for the special counsel, declined to answer, citing policy. He resisted answering despite further probing by Cannon.”
This is the money quote that says it all. “Specia; counsel” is merely a fig leaf to cover the Biden justice department prosecuting his boss’ electoral political opponent in any number of cases preferably brought in forum friendly jurisdictions like DC to assure convictions. It went off the tracks when the docs case wound up in Florida...thank goodness.
Now.... how about that DOJ peckerhead in New Yawk.
She has been very cautios to not act in a way that will provide grounds for appeal or removal from the case. THis will probably push that over the limit, and who knows what a higher court might decide? But in any case it seems likely that if they challenge her decision it will mean more delay, and that is to Trump’s advantage.
A cynic might say that’s been her gameplan all along - to run out the clock.
This challenge to Smiths authority isn’t a big piece either way. More important is chain of custody, defilement of evidence and authority of the president to declassify.
So Garland/DOJ directed someone who WAS an "officer of the United States" to resign to help a local/non-federal DA (Bragg) in his prosecution of Trump, and then appointed someone from outside the DOJ, who was NOT an "officer of the United States," (Smith) to lead the Federal prosecution of Trump.
That's just STRANGE.
Time to put Smitty’s glutus maximus in the unemployment line. The boy is worthless.
But it’s Trump.
Regardless of the scenario, precedents, Constitutionality and intuitively-obvious inherent unfairness, it will go down as another one in the ‘Lost’ column.
bump
As a conversational question, and not advancing a theory, could the Supremes be waiting for Cannon to render a decision? If she does, and it leads to a dismissal of Smith and his case, the question of immunity for Trump may remain moot for now, and the Supremes can defer a decision for another time.