Posted on 07/15/2024 8:04:31 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
“This is how republics collapse.” Those ominous words captured the hand-wringing, hair-pulling reaction to the dismissal of the Florida case against Donald Trump by Judge Aileen Cannon.
It was not just that she reached a conclusion long supported by some conservative lawyers and a Supreme Court justice.
To rule in favor of Trump in such a dismissal is, once again, the end to Democracy as we know it.
The 93-page order methodically goes through the governing cases and statutes for the appointment of prosecutors. There has long been a debate over how an attorney general like Merrick Garland can circumvent the constitutional process for the appointment of a U.S. Attorney and unilaterally elevate a citizen to wield even greater power.
With the expiration of the Independent Counsel Act in 1999, attorneys general have long relied upon their inherent authority to appoint “inferior officers” to special counsel investigation. The issue has never been conclusively ruled upon by the Supreme Court, even though lower courts have rejected this challenge.
SEE ALSO DONALD TRUMP Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling is what the body was designed for — unpopular but constitutionally correct The Trump ruling is certainly an outlier and the odds favor prosecutor Jack Smith on appeal. Many point to a challenge in 2019 in the D.C. Circuit to the appointment of Robert Mueller. The court found that “binding precedent establishes that Congress has ‘by law’ vested authority in the Attorney General to appoint the Special Counsel as an inferior officer.”
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It’s projection.
They assume everyone thinks the same way they do. Ironically it gives everyone else a window into their soul.
Enough said.
Not to mention that they want to increase the size of SCOTUS to 13 so they can load it with liberals like RBG and guarantee the outcome before they even hear the case.
How true.
“Judicial Independence” means “voting as the Left wants.”
Absolutely!
And only how they want. Well, those spoiled brat lefties need to learn they can’t always get what they want and the sooner they learn that the better.
If Jack smith has a savvy cell in his body he’ll drop it.
If the pubbies take a 3 branches this election, they should move forward with changing SCOTUS to 13. Trump would appoint 4 new justices and the dems head would explode!
“To rule in favor of Trump in such a dismissal is, once again, the end to Democracy as we know it.”
They miss the whole thing here. They didn’t rule in favor of Trump. The rulled on the dismissal of a prosecution that never should have been. So what it did was prop up democracy, not end it.
wy69
They do not believe in the legitimacy of the United States.
To them it’s 1619 nation, all built on racist colonialism and the USA was never legitimate ever.
I hope that this case goes away, but here is a Devil’s Advocate question: Shouldn’t they have stopped Smith before his office did all that work and spent all that govt. money? Why couldn’t they do it right the first time? In a hurry, apparently.
Jack Smith is the poster child for ending prosecutorial immunity.
There has to be a consequence for his illegal and unconstitutional actions.
He needs to lose his law license and spend time in prison.
It’s not a trfile to abuse your position and engage in lawfare against a political opponent.
Before this case, Smith had already suffered some embarrassing legal failures.
She dismissed the case because Smith’s got the job illegally.
Throw on them manipulating the crime scene. Staging the crime scene.
NARA sending boxes of documents to Florida and then calling the FBI that he took them.
Threatening a lawyer for a statement.
Ridiculous.
I predict Smith will appeal, but by the time the appeals court rules, the election should be over.
Thanks for this intelligence, qaz123.
In other words, all sorts of problems with prosecution. Cannon threw the case out because the case failed the very basic rules of prosecution legitimacy.
“Why couldn’t they do it right the first time?”
Or maybe there never was a case and the only reason things were happening was to publically harm Trump’s re-election campaign. People today make decisions based a lot on hearsay and whicb party is being displayed.
Part of what I did with the military was work within the world of security and the handling of sensitive documents.. I did OPSEC and COMSEC briefings for uncle sugar for many years.
The level of security they were trying to apply to the documents Trump possessed was a real overkill. Government civilians like Trump do not have security clearances. Their work is relative to the needs of the position. In addition, there are documents a president does not have the need to know so he shouldn’t possess or see them. But none of those were in those at the mansion. (At least, none were admitted being there) So the level of need had nothing to do with the level of security clearance that couldn’t exist. And he had a scif at the mansion so he could safely handle the documents he had. And the funny thing is that elected officials may keep documents for years and not get them back to the archives. The documents that were visible in the Biden garage were some from the time he was VP so he had them for 6 years after he was supposed to have disposed of them.
But like the impeachments, they were a good way to get Trump pulically osatracized and cost him votes. And when he proved he could win, they went to the next level and tried for things to get him jailed or giving people in the states the thought of removing him from the ballot. But they knew that wouldn’t stick. He may not be able to carry a gun, but he can legally run the country through the election process. Still didn’t stop themn from trying to harm his chances through bad publicity. And that’s all it ever was.
wy69
Those were my exact words in November 2020.
Teehee! I’ve been trolling libstream websites with this: “Have You Heard? Trump says during his next administration he will probably get a chance to name two Supreme Court justices. One of them will be Judge Aileen Connon for sure.” It’s driving them nuts.
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