Biggest Loser in DOJ History Takes a Final L on His Way Out the Door [Jack Smith]
DeClassified LIve ^ | 11/25/24 | Julie Kelly
Posted on 11/25/2024 6:13:34 PM PST by CFW
Pour one out for Jack Smith.
After two years of fawning press coverage and promises that the international war-crimes prosecutor would finally put Donald Trump behind bars, the special counsel today hammered the final nail in his own battered coffin by dropping his four-count J6-related indictment in Washington against the incoming president.
The move represents yet another failure by the Democratic apparatchik who once ran the Department of Justice’s public integrity unit under the Obama administration. Since then, Smith has been on a losing streak unmatched in DOJ history, suffering one loss after another before the Supreme Court and trial courts; in 2016, SCOTUS unanimously overturned the bribery conviction of Bob McDonnell, the former Republican governor of Virginia, a case Smith brought in 2014. Smith also failed to secure convictions in his prosecutions of former Senator John Edwards in 2012 and former Senator Robert Menendez in 2015.
This year, the highest court rebuked Smith on three separate occasions. First, the court rejected Smith’s rarely-used and desperate request to bypass the D.C. appellate court in considering the presidential immunity question and decide the matter quickly in an attempt to get the J6 case to trial before the election. The court a few months later reversed how the DOJ applied 18 USC 1512(c)(2), the post-Enron document destruction statute that represented two of the four counts in the J6 indictment against Trump. And on July 1, the court issued its landmark opinion in Trump v US, which gutted the J6 case by concluding most of the conduct cited in the indictment represented official acts protected by presidential immunity.
If the DOJ had a Hall of Shame, it would be named after Jack Smith.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doj; jacksmith; juliekelly; trump
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Julie Kelly has been celebrating the Jack Smith defeat with laughs and snarky remarks ever since it was announced. She is in a "take no prisoners" mood this evening.
1 posted on 11/25/2024 6:13:34 PM PST by CFW
To: CFW
There needs to be some serious retribution over Jack Smith’s actions.
Disbarment/imprisonment/deportation.
This shit needs to be shut down hard and send a message not to do this again.
2 posted on 11/25/2024 6:15:36 PM PST by Texas resident (AMF to BHO)
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