USSA watch: Jack Smith is ruled illegal - No authority
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Judge smashes Jack Smith, on grounds he never had valid authority, to file any charges, to begin with.
Biden & Garland's "appointment" of Jack Smith was illegal, all along.
This covers "documents" case.
Jack Smith J6 case is different judge - and is excluded from order below - but - there is no way for that judge to avoid this question.
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"Since November 2022, Special Counsel Smith has been exercising 'power that [he] did not lawfully possess.' All actions that flowed from his defective appointment — including his seeking of the Superseding Indictment on which this proceeding currently hinges — were unlawful exercises of executive power," she wrote.
But how different from other Special Counsels? Well....
"Cannon specifically contrasts Smith’s appointment with Weiss’s, because Weiss was already a U.S. attorney and Smith was a private citizen by the time he was appointed."
tldr;
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USA Special Counsel supposed to be Senate-confirmed
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Several have not been Senate-confirmed, as SC. That is true - and dodgy, right there
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BUT, at least they were Senate-confirmed to some other, current DOJ post, say, US Attorney
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Jack Smith wasn't even that...... Biden & Garland appointed private crony, a push too far
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Ripples, Hunter challenges his SC Weiss:
It's fine by me. Never thought Hunter should have been tried, on gun charges. Guns are least of what Hunter did.
But, to see Hunter adopt "the very argument that Democrats and liberal law professors denounced as meritless and menacing" - hilarious!
Will it work? "However, a key difference between Smith and Weiss is...Weiss is a Senate confirmed U.S. Attorney where Smith was a private citizen plucked by Merrick Garland from the general population."