1. Assuming Smith has standing, there looks like more delayed rulings from Cannon to get the trial postponed until after the election.
She already delayed any possibility of a trial until after the election. Mission accomplished.
2. A GOP House would never impeach Trump. In 2026 a democrat House might, but the Senate would never convict.
Agreed.
So the case goes away, like Biden's.
Impeachment does not "go away". If the House impeaches, that is impeachment, whether the Senate convicts or not is a different issued.
Trump is the only President in history to have 2 impeachments, that does not change. What would change is if he notches up another one.
3. If you are a Law Professor I can see how you could think that your opinion supersedes Turley's. As a non-lawyer I respect Turley's, more than Tribe's or leftist talking heads.
You are free to respect Turley's.
4. OK, Trump reshuffles the DOJ, hopefully for the better to be less partisan.
That's Kook Aid talk. Notice the discussion isn't about whether Trump refused to return classified it's about whether the case can be stopped on a fictitious technicality.
That is very telling.
5. IMHO Cannon sees the "Lawfare" being waged against Trump as "election interference" or just unacceptable Lawfare, and wants to balance Lady Justice's scales. According to Turley Cannon has a reasonable argument that Smith has no legal authority.
Her job is * * NOT * * to inject her personal biases and opinions. He job is to rule in accordance with the law as written and apply that law and court precedent. Claims of "lawfare" or "election interference" are not the subject of the case.
One argument I can put up is: if senate approval is not required for Smith, why are any approved by the senate?
As an inferior officer under the United States Constitution Article II, Section 2 Senate confirmation isn't required for inferiors officers when Congress has established law. Congress did establish law, specifically 28USC515 and 28USC533 which empowers the AG to hire special attorney's to investigate and prosecute crimes.
6. Criminal activities? Like paying for a legal NDA to cover up a non-crime? Those 34 felonies will be overturned.
Cannon has nothing to do with Trump felonious falsification of business records. That was a State crime in NY and has nothing to do with his failure to surrender classified documents when ordered to do so by a Federal Court.+
Joe Biden did the same classified document crime, but he was not held accountable, so turnabout is fair play.
No, actually he didn't. Biden (and Pence) had classified documents true, however once discovered they promptly surrender them.
Trump is NOT charged with "having" classified documents, he's charged with failing to surrendered them when ordered to do so by members of the United States Government and when ordered to do so by a Federal Court. (And of course the obstruction charges in willfully hiding the documents he kept to prevent his lawyers for turning them over.)
7. Turley said that the documents case is the most dangerous for Trump. So I'll just hope that even if Chutkin manages a conviction on Trump for something that it would be overturned on appeal. If Republicans take control in 2025 I'm writing my guys to say that they need to drop DC as a legal district, with 100% democrats that district is too biased to dispense justice. States should be required for all Grand Juries.
I don't care what Turley said. I read the court documents myself. You believing Turley and then repeating it here (to me) is just a waste of bandwidth. I get it, you like Turley because he says things in the media you already agree with and want to hear, that's not how the law works.
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