Jack Smith Could Be On Shaky Ground In Trump Charge: Analysts

Epoch Times ^ | 11/06/2023 | Jack Phillips

[SoConPubbie]

Could be?????

[Regulator]

Beat me to it

[Paladin2]

Smith’s budget needs to be zeroed out.

[Regulator]

Followed by Smith’s prosecution for Abuse of Power (he was already admonished for that by no less then the Supreme Court in the Enron cases) and Deprivation of Civil Rights Under Color of Law with regard to the President of the United States, something that is breathtaking in its implications.

[magua]

Jack Smith as of right now is trying to prosecute the greatest political figure of our time on the world stage. Jack Smith couldn’t carry Trump’s jockstrap.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Question a BLATANTLY FRAUDULENT election and what do you get? 20 years.

[kvanbrunt2]

The gag order was issued at the request of special counsel Jack Smith’s team of prosecutors, who claimed that the former president’s criticism of witnesses, the judge, prosecutors, and Washington itself threatened the integrity of their case.>>> Smith has admitted that he has such a flimsy case that the defendant can threaten the integrity of the case by criticizing the people prosecuting the case. I would file for complete dismissal based on this argument of the prosecution.

[Rockingham]

The Department of Justice is likely to lose at the Supreme Court for another reason. For the sake of due process and traditional cannons of statutory interpretation, the Court tends to disfavor expansive, non-obvious readings of statutes, especially when a criminal penalty is imposed. Otherwise, potential defendants have a hard time discerning in advance that their conduct is illegal. Lawyers and judges have a derisive term for when conduct is suddenly declared illegal by the government through clever, non-obvious statutory interpretation: “gotcha” justice.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Democrat judges are like the German judges under Hitler. Yes, Mein Furher. Whatever you say mein furher.

[Gaffer]

.....special counsel Jack Smith's team of prosecutors, who claimed that the former president's criticism of witnesses, the judge, prosecutors, and Washington itself threatened the integrity of their case.

This is nonsense, IMO. The 'persecution and its team' have no integrity. It's a political witch hunt where the persecution is allowed to put anything it wants out there to media and demands from a lickspittle, complicit judge that he gag the defense entirely. The defendant is innocent until PROVEN guilty in a court of law - this judge and persecution have already made up their minds and judgements before trial has even started on both sides.

[Lazamataz]

A thief steals your car, and when you report it and demand the police do something about it, they prosecute you for conspiring to deprive the thief of an income.

[Gaffer]

I’m wondering (not really) if there aren’t several states attorneys general have been conspiring with Smith et al regarding trying to keep Trump off the ballot for 2024.

[Lazamataz]

Kinda obvious to me.

[Lazamataz]

And BTW

[HKMk23]

“A thief steals your car,...”

...for a few seconds.

You spend the weekend detailing it meticulously.

Wild boars down in the holler seem unusually active.

Notice what — rather, who — is absent in this scenario.

[Lazamataz]

Your analogy escapes me entirely.

[Lazamataz]

OH I GET IT.

The car thief is dead.

No, my analogy is meant to demonstrate the absurdity of prosecuting Trump and supporters for objecting to having the 2020 election stolen.

[fruser1]

corruptly obstructing an official proceeding

You mean like stealing an election?

[usconservative]

The writer forgets: the process is the punishment.

Smith doesn't care if he gets the conviction, the process and muddying up Trump as much as possible is the goal.

That's why Trump's being attacked by multiple, corrupt District and State Attorneys.

They think they're keeping him so busy 'n distracted that his campaign will suffer and fail as a result.

Fools.