Because Donald Trump has been so effectively able to game the legal system in his favor, there is no way that this case is going to trial before the election,
It was, therefore, crucially important that Judge Chutkan and Jack Smith got this information in front of the electorate before November 5,
One thing the Special Counsel’s Office cannot ignore or hide from is binding precedent. The Supreme Court’s decision in Fischer v. United States,
Fischer requires the dismissal of Counts Two and Three of the Superseding Indictment, and its logic fatally undermines Counts One and Four as well,
Once stripped of President Trump’s official acts subject to immunity and protected First Amendment political advocacy, the Superseding Indictment lacks sufficient factual allegations to support either element as required by Counts Two and Three,
The congressional record from January 6 reflects lawful debates on certificate objections contemplated by the ECA, as well as acknowledgment of the historical precedent for the contingent slates,
The Special Counsel blatantly ignores the fact that federal prosecutors have taken the opposite position in this District,
Yesterday's legal filings show evidence that Donald Trump's J6 actions broke the law. He threatened democracy and our electoral integrity. We need accountability,
The details don’t matter.”
Whoever this election is about will lose.”
On the upside, Trump's new court filing made Chutkan's job much easier. It was so unpersuasive that Chutkan simply set it aside, concluded that Smith's proposed redactions struck the right balance and ordered his motion to be filed on the public record so she can move on to the litigation the Supreme Court has directed her to oversee,
They disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election intereference,
This is a case of Election interference by Jack Smith. Old information that should not have been released prior to the Election. There was no reason to release it. Gregg Jarrett, FoxNews."
Obviously, this is baseless; the schedule for this filing was set by Judge Chutkan, not Jack Smith, and it clearly had nothing to do with the Vice-Presidential debates,
Absent evidence of bad faith or some otherwise improper purpose, the new motion seems altogether permissible and consistent with the legitimate interests of the government in moving the course of the litigation forward,
The choice to unseal the document yesterday—a document originally filed on September 26—was made by Judge Chutkan,
In addition to the assertions discussed above, Defendant's opposition brief repeatedly accuses the Government of bad-faith partisan bias,
Yet again, he [Trump] is not correct,
The defendant [Trump] asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct,
Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one, ... When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office.”