Jack Smith supports his own legitimacy with receipts of Bill Barr's Bush-era appointments of special counsels

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Law & Crime

Jun 24th, 2024, 11:00 am


Jack Smith supported the legitimacy of his own appointment as special counsel through a supplemental Sunday filing on the Mar-a-Lago docket, one with receipts from Bill Barr’s first stint as U.S. attorney general during the 1990s.

Barr, who reemerged during former President Donald Trump’s administration as attorney general and was perhaps the key force behind undoing what was left of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, himself appointed special counsels while he was the chief law enforcement officer of the U.S. during George H.W. Bush’s presidency, Smith said.

While the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland-appointed special counsel has noted that every challenge of Mueller’s authority to prosecute failed in the courts over the years, Smith has also maintained that he is an “inferior officer” under the Constitution who didn’t need to be confirmed by the Senate and remains subject to the “plenary supervision” of the AG — meaning he’s not operating completely free of any “constraints” or “accountability,” contrary to what Trump’s defense and certain amici curiae have claimed.

After hearing arguments on the question Friday regarding Trump’s motion to dismiss over the asserted unlawful appointment of Smith, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a brief order allowing the prosecution and the defense to “file a separate notice of supplemental authority.”

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jack-smith-supports-his-own-legitimacy-with-receipts-of-bill-barrs-bush-era-appointments-of-special-counsels/

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Link to SC Jack Smith's Supplemental FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24775871/jack-smith-and-bill-barr.pdf

[JohnSJ]

1. Canon needs to be recused

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. She will be if she rules in favor of the arguments against Smith

These arguments have already been decided, most at the SCOTUS level, and so if Cannon rules for them, they will be appealed, and it will likely be “three strikes, you’re out”.

For that reason, unless she is truly a moron (and goes against the advice from her handlers), she will rule against these arguments. IMO, the only reason she granted these hearings is to continue the delays that are her raison d’être.

[onenote]

7. There is no three strikes and you're out rule. And the arguments made in this case differ from those in the Hunter Biden

case.

That being said, she should rule for Smith.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. I wasn't suggesting there was a formal "rule"

Only that if Smith appeals her ruling, it would be the third time, and the 11th may be running out of patience with her inexperience and incompetence.

[Walleye]

5. She's like a child, Sunday school kid

[Pinback]

9. She's a very effective tool

— a blunt instrument, but one that does the job as requested.

[Walleye]

10. I'm starting to think of women who are Republicans as quislings

[bluestarone]

11. They knew she would be the best judge

She might just as well carry a big sign in front her saying, "he can grab my p***Y anytime he wants too.

[czarjak]

2. Barr lied.

Again.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. traitortrump's loose Cannon will schedule a hearing for oral arguments in mid-November.

[Pas-de-Calais]

6. Can she get a cell next to tfg?