Ex-US attorney: Jack Smith "may need to politely tell Judge Cannon to butt out" after latest order
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/08/ex-us-attorney-jack-smith-may-need-to-politely-tell-cannon-to-butt-out-after-latest-order/U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday asked special counsel Jack Smith about his use of an out-of-district grand jury in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.
Cannon, the federal judge in South Florida assigned to the case, is demanding answers from Smith on the "legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district."
Most of the classified documents case is being handled out of Cannon's district in South Florida, but some grand jury work in the case was also conducted in Washington D.C., where the former president was also recently indicted for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Cannon took issue with this and questioned why a grand jury heard evidence in D.C. after Trump had already been indicted by a grand jury in Florida, demanding an explanation from Smith by Aug. 22.
"Based on her order, it appears that Cannon is crossing into the government's lane," former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor, told Salon. "Under the constitutional separation of powers structure, the executive branch has sole authority to investigate and charge criminal offenses. There is no reason the special counsel cannot investigate related charges in other districts."
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than a national security case. And that's very important to our media. By their standards and methods, both parties must be equally guilty of all or any infraction for which the GOP is guilty. Only Democrats can be guilty of stand-alone violations. The typical ratio is 10 unsubstantiated rumors of foul play by Democrats for every actual law broken by Republicans. Because it's a proven fact that it requires 10 news cycles repeating grossly false and overblown rumors of Democratic fouls to dilute a single factual account of Republican lawlessness. Do you have any idea of how many hours of head-in-the-sand reporting is required for that system to work? But if that's what it takes, the American media is up for the task. Every network wants to be broadcast on military posts throughout the world. It's a trophy thing. And no base, or even top, commander is going to allow too much criticism of the Republicans who provide and maintain the MIC. That shit gets out among the grunts and the lid comes off the whole charade and its goodbye effective deterrence and we're vulnerable to another Pearl Harbor fiasco call to arms.
All that bother just to keep the American people informed about the true nature of their government and its media dependency? Really, where are your priorities?
Oh, and yes, there's a good bit of 
sprinkled in this missive.
