Attorneys who represented Trump during Mueller probe look to kneecap Mar-a-Lago case -with an assist from Antonin Scalia

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Source: Law & Crime

Nov 2nd, 2024, 11:47 am


A legal group founded by late evangelical minister Pat Robertson has joined the fray in an effort to convince a federal court of appeals that Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago indictment should remain dismissed.

In their 39-page amicus curiae – or friend of the court – brief filed late Friday afternoon, the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) stakes out a by-now familiar position to docket-watchers. Namely: The idea that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed to his position and, therefore, his prosecution of Trump was equally unlawful. In sum and substance, the ACLJ’s brief argues the special counsel’s office was created in violation of the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

“The principal officers of the United States may only be appointed by the President and may only be confirmed by Congress,” the brief begins. “Special Counsel Jack Smith assumes that he is not such an officer and presents no argument to this Court to support that conclusion. This Court should not take that premise for granted. On the contrary, the evidence shows that Special Counsel Smith is, in fact, a principal officer and that regardless of statute, he could not be appointed by the Attorney General.”

The group’s constitutional argument, while similar to other such arguments, focuses its legal analysis on separation of powers concerns. And, in service of this position, the ACLJ quotes the late Justice Antonin Scalia in order to make their point.

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Full headline: ‘Special counsel Smith answers to no one’: Attorneys who represented Trump during Mueller probe look to kneecap Mar-a-Lago case – with an assist from Antonin Scalia

[Faux pas]

1. EFF em ALL

[Bev54]

2. I think Jack Smith smashed their argument in court filings last summer.

They are just regurgitating garbage.

[AZ8theist]

3. This CRIME pisses me off above all others!!!

If you or I had ONE TOP SECRET document in our possession, we would be in prison awaiting trial.

Yet the TREASONOUS PIG JERK OFF had hundreds, yet is allowed to walk around free, selling more classified information to the highest bidder.
Chinese spies had unfettered access to the docs in his shithole Florida dump. Copies were made.

How many more are floating around his other shithole properties that WERE NEVER CHECKED???????

IT IS FUCKING DISGUSTING.

And now these Reich Wing, ANTI-AMERICAN SCUMBAGS want it ALL FORGOTTEN.....FUCK THEM TO HELL

[William Seger]

4. Scumbags, every one

There can't be any doubt that this totally transactional malignant narcissist took the documents for personal advantage or enrichment in one way or another. The fact that some of the folders were empty implies that he already has. We don't know the damage; this might have been the most significant security breach in history. "Anti-American scumbags" is putting it too mildly for anyone who would try -- uninvited -- to shield this lying, cheating turd from justice.

[republianmushroom]

5. The convicted fellow should be in prison for this crime.

45 months and counting 3 years and 9 months.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Good area in which President Biden can exercise his powers.

Investigate. Arrest. Try. Convict. Then, Fry — starting with John Roberts.

[travelingthrulife]

7. Why don't these attorneys care that he took secret US documents and probably

sold them to the highest bidder?

[FakeNoose]

8. And yet, nobody said a word when Kenneth Starr was appointed as "Special Counsel" illegally

Starr did his damnedest to convict President Bill Clinton for one thing or another.

Wikipedia:

In August 1994, pursuant to the newly reauthorized Ethics in Government Act, Starr was appointed by a special three-judge division of the D.C. Circuit to continue the Whitewater investigation. He replaced Robert B. Fiske, a moderate Republican who had been appointed by attorney general Janet Reno.

(link) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr