{"id":103362,"date":"2024-07-31T20:02:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103362"},"modified":"2024-07-31T20:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:02:12","slug":"103362","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103362","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Question O’ The Day
\nDo I look like someone who would make that basic mistake?<\/em>
\nAnswer O’ The Day:
\nYes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If we can thank Senator McConnell for one thing, it’s keeping this moron hack off the Supreme Court<\/p>\n

\n

AG Garland slams dismissal of Trump\u2019s classified documents case: \u2018Do I look like someone who would make that basic mistake?\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Attorney General Merrick Garland suggested Tuesday that his lengthy legal career makes it unlikely that he illegally appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate alleged crimes committed by former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the federal classified documents case against Trump earlier this month, ruling that the special counsel was not lawfully appointed by Garland \u2013 a determination that made the Biden administration official bristle.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor more than 20 years I was a federal judge. Do I look like someone who would make that basic mistake about the law? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d Garland said in an interview with \u201cNBC Nightly News.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attorney general noted that his \u201cfavorite room\u201d in the Justice Department is its law library to hammer down the point.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur position is, it\u2019s constitutional and valid. That\u2019s why we appealed,\u201d Garland added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will say that this is the same process of appointing special counsel as was followed in the previous administration, Special Counsel [John] Durham and Special Counsel [Robert] Mueller, in multiple special counsels over the decades going back to Watergate and the special prosecutor in that case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil now every single court, including the Supreme Court, that has considered the legality of a special counsel appointment has upheld it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her July 15 order, Cannon ruled that Congress was required to appoint \u201cconstitutional officers\u201d and the legislature was also needed to approve spending for such a prosecution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat role cannot be usurped by the executive branch or diffused elsewhere \u2014 whether in this case or in another case, whether in times of heightened national need or not,\u201d she wrote in her 93-page ruling.<\/p>\n

The judge determined that \u201cSpecial Counsel Smith\u2019s investigation has unlawfully drawn funds from the Indefinite Appropriation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Special Counsel\u2019s office has spent tens of millions of dollars since November 2022, all drawn unconstitutionally from the Indefinite Appropriation,\u201d Cannon wrote.<\/p>\n

Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against Trump earlier this month, arguing that the special counsel was unlawfully appointed by the attorney general.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor more than 18 months, Special Counsel Smith\u2019s investigation and prosecution has been financed by substantial funds drawn from the Treasury without statutory authorization, and to try to rewrite history at this point seems near impossible. The Court has difficulty seeing how a remedy short of dismissal would cure this substantial separation-of-powers violation, but the answers are not entirely self-evident, and the caselaw is not well developed,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Smith\u2019s team is expected to file a brief related to their appeal in the case, which charged the 78-year-old Republican nominee for president with improperly hoarding sensitive and classified White House documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence after his presidency, by the end of August.<\/p>\n

Trump faced up to 450 years in prison if convicted on all counts in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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