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DOJ, you're misusing the obstruction charges.
The Supreme Court shredded the J6 case on immunity grounds, and the high court also said It may be that a future attorney general, whether serving in a Democratic or Republican administration, will lack the appetite to resuscitate the cases against Trump in 2029. But Smith has done all he can to preserve that possibility."
She's a proven litigator, an inspiring leader and a champion for all Americans. She will bring the needed reforms to DOJ,
Gaetz said on X, formerly Twitter In addition, by filing his motions pre-emptively, Smith was able to explain his reasons for dismissing the case, rather than allowing Trump's future AG to mischaracterize them.
McQuade continued about Smith in her opinion piece, saying Is she also going to go after the grand jurors who found there was probable cause to believe he was engaged in multiple crimes?"
Schiff said on MSNBC, referring to Trump's attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi You can very well see a lot of prosecutors, like Durham, who spend millions of taxpayer dollars to come up with nothing,
Schiff told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Rep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people,
And what was additionally interesting was, by the time I would say the third indictment, public interest in each successive event went down,
York noted on The Hugh Hewitt Show And it seems to me that it would be a good idea to make that clear: that these charges are dead. Completely, forever dead,
I think it will be enormously difficult for Blanche to balance the orders he gets from the president with what he knows is the right thing to do,
former Justice Department inspector general Michael Bromwich told NBC News The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted,
Bondi told Fox News in 2023 That is how they and/or their predecessors have operated in the recent past,
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning,
the group wrote in a statement following Smith’s motions, quoting Winston Churchill Preserve your documents, because we’re coming after you. You people are criminals,
The government has moved to dismiss this appeal as to Donald Trump. If granted, defendant Trump will not appear in the caption in future filings in this case."
The special counsel alluded to that in a footnote of the brief, writing The Attorney General—like other department heads, see Gov.Br.39-40—has relied on Congress's broad grant of power to staff and operate his department for more than 150 years,
By statute, the Attorney General retains plenary control over all officers of the Department of Justice,
He attempted a coup, and what was Merrick Garland doing? Nothing. So every day the clock went by, he undermined us. It helped normalize Donald Trump,
Thank God Merrick Garland waited nearly two years to appoint Jack Smith because, after all, nothing is more important than preventing the optics of politicization."
Political commentator, podcast host and author of Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy, Brian Tyler Cohen, posted Never forget how much responsibility Merrick Garland has for Donald Trump's second presidency and total evasion of legal accountability."
Progressive journalist and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan said