Rep. Massie just ended

... And it seems to be the proper decision by the Judge.

#### Salty

... And it seems to be the proper decision by the Judge.

#### Salty Originally Posted by Salty Again

Most of those in the legal profession would disagree with you.

"Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to throw out serious national-security criminal charges in the classified documents case against Donald Trump is legally unsupported, ignores decades of precedent and is deeply dangerous.

Her decision is quite unlikely to survive the tests of time, or even the appeal Mr. Smith’s office said he intends to make. But it will further delay a case that has moved so slowly under her direction that it was already virtually certain it would never go to a jury before Election Day.

Judge Cannon asserts that no law of Congress authorizes the special counsel. That is palpably false. The special counsel regulations were drafted under specific congressional laws authorizing them.

Since 1966, Congress has had a specific law, Section 515, giving the attorney general the power to commission attorneys “specially retained under authority of the Department of Justice” as “special assistant[s] to the attorney general or special attorney[s].” Another provision in that law said that a lawyer appointed by the attorney general under the law may “conduct any kind of legal proceeding, civil or criminal,” that other U.S. attorneys are “authorized by law to conduct.”

Yet another part of that law, Section 533, says the attorney general can appoint officials “to detect and prosecute crimes against the United States.” These sections were specifically cited when Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Mr. Smith as a special counsel. If Congress doesn’t like these laws, it can repeal them. But until then, the law is the law.

Eight separate judges had already rejected the claim that Judge Cannon has now endorsed (including, by the way, the judge presiding over Hunter Biden’s criminal case). It is true that one Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, recently wrote a concurring opinion in the Trump immunity case questioning the legality of the position of special counsel. No other justice joined that opinion, and even Justice Thomas did not come to the conclusions that Judge Cannon did — he simply raised “essential questions” about the office. And his questions ignored a well-trod tradition in America as well as the statutory landscape."

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/comme...mp-classified/

As I said in another thread, this is a technicality. It in no way says Trump is innocent of the charges. At the very least, a new special counsel should be appointed with approval of Congress and the trial should go on, hopefully with a new judge. But Eileen Cannon has accomplished her obvious goal of delaying the trial, the most damaging trial against Trump, beyond election day.

there are always rules. you follow them or you don't.

Jackass Smith has no authority. never did.


tell me ..what does this sound like? a "by the book" investigation of "Evil Lord Trump" by the "Virtuous DemonRat Party" or a sham political prosecution?


fyi the Democratic party will now be referred to as the VDP ...


Virtuous DemonRat Party

without any clear LEGAL mandate Smith is what he's always been .. a political hack and ...


wait for it ...





wait .........


a CRIMINAL for bringing an unauthorized prosecution


BAHHABAAHAAAAAAA


send his hackass butthole back to the Hague for prosecution for treason


BAHHHAAAAAA Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

The Attorney General has the ability to appoint a special counsel to assist an existing ATTORNEY GENERAL. It cannot appoint one to REPLACE or ACT as one because all Attorney generals are nominated and approved by the Senate. Without that, they have no power VESTED in them.

I love it when Democrats step on a rake. Originally Posted by texassapper

But the Supreme Court WILL have to rule on it, so I guess Massie and Meese ARE smarter than all the democrats who forgot to read the Constitution.

It's clear that Garland the traitor did not have the AUTHORITY to appoint a private citizen to act as an Attorney General.

hee hee... Originally Posted by texassapper

When our "esteemed" colleagues return, ima sure they are gonna sing the praise Hunter Biden lawyers petitioning the courts on the <insert adjective here> special council being illegal.

... And it seems to be the proper decision by the Judge.

#### Salty Originally Posted by Salty Again

Common NaCl-y, start chanting Free Hunter. You know that special council thing was a crock in his trial