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1 May 2024, 5:48 am by jonathanturley
If the court were to embrace special counsel Jack Smith’s arguments, a president would have no immunity from criminal charges, even for official acts taken in his presidency. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Chief Justice John Roberts was among at least five members of the court who did not appear to embrace the claim of absolute immunity that would stop special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump on charges he conspired to overturn his 2020 election loss. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 3:16 pm by Mark Walsh
., Special Counsel Jack Smith, who brought the indictment against Trump over the former president’s alleged role in conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election, enters the courtroom and joins his team. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 11:09 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Will we hear Alito or his ideological colleagues sounding like Trump's media posts -- asking about, say, "deranged Jack Smith" -- when the Court (finally) gets around to hearing the presidential immunity case later this month? [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 6:24 am by Tom Joscelyn
Both the January 6th Select Committee and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team found that Trump’s advisors had to convince him to use the word “peaceful. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 3:00 am by jonathanturley
Most recently, in the federal prosecution in Florida, Special Counsel Jack Smith declared that he will not consider himself bound by the Justice Department’s longstanding policy of not bringing charges or holding trials of candidates close to an election. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 5:14 pm by Steven Calabresi
Circuit, and in the Florida District Court before which Trump is being prosecuted by Jack Smith. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 11:47 am by Adam Klasfeld
., Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith successfully requested restrictions barring Trump from attacking known witnesses in the case accusing the former president of committing four federal crimes in his quest to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 9:07 am
But the Jack Smith case against Trump requires the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump did not believe that he had won, that he was lying when he said he had won. [read post]
14 Feb 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
"Yesterday, the Court ordered Jack Smith to file his response by Tuesday of next week. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 10:27 pm by Josh Blackman
Indeed, Attorney General Merrick Garland is under scrutiny from the White House for not bringing charges against Trump sooner, but instead caving to political pressure, and appointing Jack Smith. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 5:01 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
(Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) The post The Kid Who Tracked Elon Musk’s Jet is Now Tracking Taylor Swift’s Jet, and Taylor is Seeing Red appeared first on J&Y Law Firm. [read post]
26 Dec 2023, 5:47 am by Michael C. Dorf
Jack Smith has acted with energy and alacrity, but he should have been given his current responsibility in early 2021.(4) I greatly admire Garland as a person of integrity. [read post]
11 Dec 2023, 11:21 am
I'm reading "Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Decide Whether Trump Is Immune From Prosecution/The request was unusual in two ways: Jack Smith asked the justices to rule before an appeals court acted, and he urged them to move with exceptional speed" (NYT).Why the big rush? [read post]