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ancianita

(38,516 posts)
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 10:54 AM Jul 2024

What ELSE we're voting for Nov 5: Why the Maga Six will uphold Cannon's ruling to dismiss the documents case.

When the Immunity ruling was made July 1 2024, Clarence Thomas gave Cannon the reasoning the SCOTUS WOULD SUPPORT re the existence of the present special counsel.

At this point, Jack Smith (the People of the United States v Trump) CAN appeal to the 11th Circuit, AND the 11th Circuit CAN remove Cannon for this ruling, BUT the 11th ALSO knows that its decision will be appealed and the maga 6 injustices WILL OVERRULE THE 11TH CIRCUIT for the reasons Clarence Thomas gave in the maga 6's latest Immunity ruling.


isn’t this merely the sort of crabbed legalism that nonlawyers find infuriating and that should not be part of a discussion of momentous matters like the prosecution of Mr. Trump? No, for reasons best articulated by Robert Jackson, who was attorney general before FDR appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1941. In a 1940 address to a conference of U.S. attorneys, he described the immense and unchecked power that federal prosecutors have to investigate people, to interview their friends and relatives, to authorize their arrest and secure their prosecution.

He noted that the appointment of U.S. attorneys “from the very beginning has been safeguarded by presidential appointment, requiring confirmation of the Senate. . . . You are thus required to win an expression of confidence in your character by both the legislative and the executive branches of the government before assuming the responsibilities of a federal prosecutor.”

Jack Smith hasn’t passed that test, and with his record of having lost cases both at trial and on appeal because of his overreaching approach to criminal law, likely wouldn’t. At a minimum, these prosecutions should be handled by a duly appointed and confirmed U.S. attorney who has.


Mr. Mukasey served as U.S. attorney general, 2007-09, and as a U.S. district judge, 1988-2006. He joined a friend-of-the-court brief challenging both the creation of Mr. Smith’s office and his appointment in the Florida case.


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On November 5 We the voters will have to solve this maga 6 constitutional crisis.

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What ELSE we're voting for Nov 5: Why the Maga Six will uphold Cannon's ruling to dismiss the documents case. (Original Post) ancianita Jul 2024 OP
Thus sprach Rupert Murdoch. Kid Berwyn Jul 2024 #1
I hear you. BUT have you seen Mukasey's name come up anywhere in the Special Counsel filings? ancianita Jul 2024 #2
We are playing fair-and-square. The other side, not at all. Kid Berwyn Jul 2024 #3
Agree. But that counts for nothing with the maga 6 injustices. You see what they've done to precedent. ancianita Jul 2024 #4
Asymmetric Warfare Kid Berwyn Jul 2024 #5
We need to get this demand on platforms -- that he use his official acts powers to undo what the maga 6 rule and restore ancianita Jul 2024 #6

Kid Berwyn

(17,984 posts)
1. Thus sprach Rupert Murdoch.
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 11:14 AM
Jul 2024

BFEE turd Mukasey and his co-conspirators are in for a rude awakening.

We the People don’t approve SCROTUS censoring the Constitution to read: “Me the Donald.”

ancianita

(38,516 posts)
2. I hear you. BUT have you seen Mukasey's name come up anywhere in the Special Counsel filings?
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 11:27 AM
Jul 2024

Has Mukasey been listed as a co-conspirator? If not, then don't think quotes from a former AG count for nothing.

You might as well say that Clarence Thomas is a co-conspirator. A lot of good that will do us.

We need to vote DOWNTICKET like hell for Democrats for Senate and House. That's our only recourse.

The only OTHER recourse is that Biden take advantage of the maga 6's "official acts" key clause and make it his official act to restore the DOJ's special counsel himself.

Kid Berwyn

(17,984 posts)
3. We are playing fair-and-square. The other side, not at all.
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 11:33 AM
Jul 2024

If President Biden doesn't use the powers of his office and the loyal public servants in government, I seriously doubt Trump will restore law and order come January 20, 2025. So, if there ever was a time we needed some executive action, this is it. Joe can declare a national emergency and round up the traitors beholden to Putin -- from Trump to JD Vance to Mukasey and to whatever bums Bush Sr. gave keys.

ancianita

(38,516 posts)
4. Agree. But that counts for nothing with the maga 6 injustices. You see what they've done to precedent.
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 11:37 AM
Jul 2024

Our only power is our numbers. We have to win a trifecta to restore a government that truly represents the will of The People.

It goes against every fiber of Biden's being to overrule a maga 6 ruling, but since the DOJ falls under the Executive Branch, and the Executive is sworn to faithfully execute, you're right -- if there ever was a time for Biden to use the "official acts" clause, this is it.

Kid Berwyn

(17,984 posts)
5. Asymmetric Warfare
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 11:44 AM
Jul 2024

President Biden will need to think outside the box, if not go there, in order to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. Too bad if the weapons he may have to use were supposed to be saved for use by a repuglian. It's not the sick fick, the SCrOTUS and the un-American NAZI horde -- We the People will stand with President Biden.

ancianita

(38,516 posts)
6. We need to get this demand on platforms -- that he use his official acts powers to undo what the maga 6 rule and restore
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 11:49 AM
Jul 2024

balanced, not asymmetric, jurisprudence. It's called living up to his sworn oath and faithfully executing.

I can't explain it as well as he, but he has to explain what he decides. This can't be a populist, political decision on Biden's part. He has to explain the imbalance of three branch power that now exists.

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