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Jack Smith's "October Surprise" was so overtly political and unethical that it was too much even for a senior legal analyst from a liberal network, CNN. The disgust by Elie Honig towards the antics of Jack Smith boiled over on Thursday in New York Magazine in an article whose title reflected Honig's opinion, "Jack Smith’s October Cheap Shot."

It’s been a tumultuous few weeks in the legal saga around Donald Trump, and suddenly the future has come into sharper focus. After months of high-stakes uncertainty, now we know for sure that Trump will not face trial on the biggest cases against him — relating to 2020 election subversion, January 6, and classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — before the 2024 election. He might never be convicted on anything beyond the Manhattan hush-money case, and that one stands on increasingly rickety legal footing. And the chances that Trump ever winds up behind bars are vanishingly slim. There’s no use spinning...

As many in the mockingbird media are celebrating the conviction of Donald Trump in the Manhattan trial, CNN's senior legal analyst has tossed cold water on their jubilation with a devastating analysis of how the prosecutors captured their political prey.Honig's analysis appeared on Friday in New York Magazine which was reprinted from the CAFE Brief newsletter. The title alone expresses Honig's highly critical view of the prosecution: "Prosecutors Got Trump — But They Contorted the Law."

CNN's legal analyst Elie Honig writing in a Cafe Brief newsletter that was reprinted in New York magazine on Friday presented both the pro and anti Trump ways of looking at the Alvin Bragg case that takes place on April 15 in Manhattan. It is obvious which of the two point of view that Honig thinks is most realistic in "Donald Trump’s Trial Is a Rorschach Test."

Unlike the rabidly anti-Trump MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, whose legal instincts would be in line with a Keith Olbermann, CNN's senior legal analyst Elie Honig sometimes tosses out curve balls at variance with the liberal narrative usually taken by his network. One such occasion was on Saturday morning during Honig's appearance on Smerconish. He told the host that Jack Smith appeared to be in violation of the Department Of Justice policy that prosecutors should not select the timing of any action with an election in mind. Here is the dilemma on that topic that Attorney General Merrick Garland is...

If you heard a commentator state that the reason why Special Counsel Jack Smith appears to be so desperate for his J6 trial of Donald Trump to proceed as speedily as possible on March 4, 2024 is because he want to obtain a conviction of Trump before the election for purely political reasons, it would be safe to assume that this analysis was given on NewsMax or perhaps OANN.However, what is shocking is the commentator in this case was CNN's legal analyst, Elie Honig, on Saturday's Smerconish. CNN has treated him as Eliot Ness who buys lunch at Subway like...

VIDEODoes CNN Legal Analyst Elie Honig realize that he might have put his job in jeopardy by HONESTLY assessing Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis? Oh, CNN might not outright FIRE Honig for veering away from the approved NARRATIVE but don't be too surprised if you see much less of him in the near future.

For as loyal as a liberal foot solider as he is (see here and here for examples), CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig is not as dependable as you might think. Tuesday's New Day provided another example of someone from the network of blind squirrels finding a nut as, on the issue of NY Attorney General Letitia James (D) issuing subpoenas against Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, Honig had a shocking take: "The Trumps' argument here is not absurd. It's not ridiculous. The crux of their argument is, we have been politically targeted by this attorney general, Letitia James....

(CNN) — When the House votes Thursday on formal procedures governing its impeachment inquiry, the administration will no longer have a reason to argue that the impeachment inquiry is invalid without a full vote and that the proceedings are unfairly secretive and one-sided. This argument was already on shaky footing. The Constitution gives the House "sole power of impeachment," without specifying any particular investigative process requirement. And the first round of closed-door House depositions are open to Republican and Democratic members of the investigating committees, all of whom have the ability to question the witnesses. This week's vote should spike...

Let's hope Elie Honig isn't exiled to the CNN equivalent of Siberia. Because on New Day this morning, Honig, a CNN legal analyst, lit into Andrew McCabe for lying to federal investigators, suggesting he should be given the same treatment as others prosecuted for doing the same. Highlights: "Whenever we hear something from McCabe, we have to keep in mind he has a serious credibility problem.""He lied three times in three separate interviewsabout whether he was a leak, or authorized theleak on the Hillary Clinton case." "Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos, were all prosecuted for making false...