[SoConPubbie]

Could be?????

[Paladin2]

Smith’s budget needs to be zeroed out.

[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.

[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.

[Gay State Conservative]

Unless I’m mistaken Alan Dershowitz has said that any convictions in this case will be overturned by the appeals courts.

[enumerated]

No shit Sherlock.

[oldtech]

As Red Skelton might have said on one of his old shows...”That guy Jack Smith ..just don’t look right to me”

[DownInFlames]

It’s a matter of opinion and freedom of speech. The government has no say in this.

[Vaduz]

Either way, this issue will likely end up before the United States Supreme Court because it is a novel issue that affects hundreds of criminal defendants, including the former president.

Loophole lawyers hiss

[Georgia Girl 2]

Ya think? 🙄