Posted on 03/19/2024 4:26:36 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Judge Aileen Cannon issued a jury instruction order in Jack Smith’s classified documents case and the leftist legal analysts are going apocalyptic.
Cannon gave two options for jury instructions.
The first option:
In a prosecution of a former president for allegedly retaining documents in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), a jury is permitted to examine a record retained by a former president in his/her personal possession at the end of his/her presidency and make a factual finding as to whether the government has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it is personal or presidential using the definitions set forth in the Presidential Records Act (PRA).
The second option is:
A president has sole authority under the PRA to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency. Neither a court nor a jury is permitted to make or review such a categorization decision. Although there is no formal means in the PRA by which a president is to make that categorization, an outgoing president’s decision to exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration constitutes a president’s categorization of those records as personal under the PRA.
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Can Judge Cannon make a quickie judgement on Veggie Pedo Pete’s chicom bribes? Please?
I don’t need a judge to tell me that.
Know it all snarky FReepers might need it though
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“ A Vice President or Senator does not have the authority to declassify anything”
Correct. I might add that a former first “ lady” who was a Senator and then a Secretary of State doesn’t either.
Now that we have established that former office holders can be prosecuted, the future is gonna be lit!
“leftist legal analysts are going apocalyptic.” So, they are in their natural state. Good.
“Know it all snarky FReepers might need it though”
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Bears repeating.
If the POTUS says it is not classified, IT IS NOT CLASSIFIED. Since POTUS Trump has declared it to be “NOT CLASSIFIED” then it can certainly be shown to a jury.
What are you hiding, Jack?
Drugs and pure hate.
Heads up
And there is no process that has been defined by which the President declassifies information. He can declare that by having put this in a box and carried it out the door it is DECLASSIFIED. Done.
Essentially the Founders wrote that if the government is the sea, the President is the orca. Who is the boss of the orca?
The Founders wrote that there’s no critter in the ocean to stop the President, except the voter and an impeaching/convicting Congress.
Judge Cannon has so much testosterone, she’s got quarts to share.
OH NOOOOOOOOOEZ !!!!
Splody heads. HA HA
Cover sheets are not classified. They are the unclassified warning that the materials underneath the cover sheets are classified.
My understanding - I am not a lawyer - is that it doesn’t matter if the documents were classified, declassified, never classified. President Trump was told to return them, he didn’t, and he hid them. Isn’t that what the case is about?
“The 49-page indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith includes the following criminal charges:
Willful retention of national defense information
Conspiracy to obstruct justice
Withholding of a document or record
Corruptly concealing a document or record
Concealing a document in a federal investigation
Scheme to conceal
False statements and representations”
Bringing up secret or classification is only to hurt President Trump in the election by painting him as careless or worse.
Now that you mention it, there is an incredible amount of self centered arrogant people posting on this site lately......
It all boils down to:
“Just leave us alone.”
“No.”
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