Posted on 04/27/2024 3:07:08 PM PDT by Libloather
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas raised a question Thursday that goes to the heart of Special Counsel Jack Smith's charges against former President Donald Trump.
The high court was considering Trump's argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president, but another issue is whether Smith and the Office of Special Counsel have the authority to bring charges at all.
"Did you, in this litigation, challenge the appointment of special counsel?" Thomas asked Trump attorney John Sauer on Thursday during a nearly three-hour session at the Supreme Court.
Sauer replied that Trump's attorneys had not raised that concern "directly" in the current Supreme Court case — in which justices are considering Trump's arguments that presidential immunity precludes the prosecution of charges that the former president illegally sought to overturn the 2020 election.
Sauer told Thomas that, "we totally agree with the analysis provided by Attorney General Meese [III] and Attorney General Mukasey."
"It points to a very important issue here because one of [the special counsel's] arguments is, of course, that we should have this presumption of regularity. That runs into the reality that we have here an extraordinary prosecutorial power being exercised by someone who was never nominated by the president or confirmed by the Senate at any time. So we agree with that position. We hadn't raised it yet in this case when this case went up on appeal," Sauer said.
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Yeah, that’s going just about as far as Obama’s fake pdf birth certificate
Let’s see where this goes. Was the plan to bring it up later?
And my question is if a private citizen conspired with NARA and used Government resources to mount a legal case against a former President what laws did that private citizen break? Since the DOJ would need to prosecute I am sure that nothing would happen to him.
Maybe better to pursue down the road.....
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/12/legal-scholars-say-special-counsel-jack-smith-wasn/
Unless a military tribunal prosecuted...
I like the way you think, Pete.
If Smith were illegitimate, wouldn’t that make him a bastard?
I know I’ve called him a bastard.
No offense to bastards.
Is there a possibility that Trump believes himself to be infallible, thus surrounding his legal inner circle with "yes men"?
Maybe Trump wants the case to go on since it damages Biden and the DOJ. Jack not being appointed correctly is Trump's hold card!
Not only should they disqualify him, they should roll up the elimination of the Fiction they created called Qualified Immunity into the decision so Trump can JAIL AND SUE HIM and everyone involved.
There must be a good reason why it is not in this filing. Perhaps it's in another. I think that John Sauer did one heck of a good job in front of the Supreme Court. He cited chapter and verse for everything without hesitation. In fact, he was generally cut off by a liberal judge before he was half done each time because he was doing too well.
Trump is not very keen on choosing his friends and lawyers.
Both have done him harm
Trump is not very keen on choosing his friends and lawyers.
Both have done him harm
You can count on Thomas going after the fa t that Jackoff Smith has no lawful authority to indict Trump.
I listened to the oral arguments. The issues are not complex.
Wouldn’t that be a huge ruling? Imagine if the USSC simply ruled that Smith was not properly appointed and that all lawsuits brought by him in Federal Courts are hereby dismissed!
>Because that fits a different litigation better.<
In a better venue with a better judge.
I can see Justice Thomas’s question putting the spurs to Judge Cannon to finally rule on Smith’s legitimacy.
The time is now right for her to rule.
EC
It is theater for the masses... until someone kills Trump which was the unspoken risk in the entertainment of the masses’.
Exactly. His lawyers have screwed up on many cases with Trump.
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