Posted on 10/01/2024 4:34:34 PM PDT by Coronal
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers think Special Counsel Jack Smith wants to disclose too much evidence in the ex-president’s criminal case for trying to overturn the 2020 election, opposing a proposed filing laying out prosecutors’ case against Trump that’s set to soon be publicly released.
Smith, who’s overseeing the government’s case against Trump, has filed a document with the court detailing the full case against Trump and explaining how it complies with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling granting Trump and other ex-presidents immunity from criminal charges based on their “official acts” in office.
The filing—which Smith has said will include new evidence not included in the indictment—has not yet been made public, as it includes private information that has to be redacted, with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan making the ultimate decision on what comes out.
Trump’s lawyers filed their opposition to Smith’s proposed redactions on Tuesday, arguing prosecutors want to make information public that they previously claimed should stay under wraps, and without considering “the implications for witnesses, potential jurors, and the integrity of the proceedings.”
Smith is trying to release “voluminous purportedly sensitive witness statements,” including “direct quotations and summaries,” Trump’s attorneys argued, claiming the redactions prosecutors propose don’t adequately protect witness identities, and conflict with efforts by Smith’s office to keep identifying information private.
Trump’s lawyers claimed Smith is trying to keep information unredacted because the Justice Department wants to harm Trump in the presidential election, calling the filing a “politically motivated manifesto” and alleging prosecutors want it to be public “in the final weeks of the 2024 Presidential election while early voting has already begun throughout the United States.”
Defense counsel also downplayed what’s in the filing, claiming the document “contains few, if any, new allegations.”
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Chutkin, like a vulture, hangs over the election waiting for just the right moment to strike.
Pray for Trump Justice!
I don’t think this will matter much either way. Most voters have made up their minds and we all suffer from lawfare fatigue.
It will dominate a couple news cycles. Never good.
The Department of inJustice head and this lout should both
be up on charges by now. I hope Trump’s Justice Department
addresses the criminality of these people.
Hillary Clinton would be another.
I’d also tell that idiot who thinks he’s our spokesman re:
vaccines and complying with every edict that comes down,
Gates, to sit down and shut up or else.
He’s tried to conduct foreign policy on our behalf and
that’s an actionable violation.
This is the type of stuff you release on the weekend before the election...
Remember Caspar Weinberger, Bush seniors Secretary of Defense indicted on October 30th 1992 by corrupt special counsel Lawrence E. Walsh? Expect something like that on the final weekend.
I suspect the Supreme Court stated the extent of immunity that many legal experts expected.
The partial release at this point is untimely and would be improper.
If Trump loses the election, he might be sitting in the dock in less than 40 days and what Smith wants to be redacted would have to be made public soon afterward at a public trial.
So, either release all of it or none of it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.