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SEE YOU IN COURT
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s new filing alleges Trump planned before the 2020 election to deny the results if he lost, and ignored the lack of evidence of voting irregularities.
Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno. He practices law in Washington, D.C.
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FINISH LINE
The loss isn’t just suffered by federal prosecutors, but by American voters who are now forced to vote in darkness without the sunlight a public trial would have provided.
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EPIC
Smith’s move against Trump is the latest in what is becoming a battle never seen before.
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DEVILRY?
So many questions... Is it because of a disagreement between Smith and DOJ/Merrick Garland? Is it down to Garland’s nerves around a court case close to the election?
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POWER PLAY
We should take Gorsuch’s “be careful” warning to the president seriously, because the fact that he felt free to issue it shows the real dangers of an unchecked Supreme Court.
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LEGAL LABYRINTH
Judge Tanya Chutkan can choose whether to have lawyers in the ongoing Jan. 6 case combine their paper fight with live witness testimony. She should choose the live testimony.
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TOTALLY GUILTY
Joe Biden’s reform proposals are a good start—but what is really needed to reform the court is to water down not only the length of time justices serve, but how many of them serve.
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FAILING GRADE
To AG Merrick Garland, appointing Jack Smith offered the—ultimately illusory—promise of insulating the DOJ from being attacked as a partisan weapon of the Biden administration.
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UNREAL JUSTICE
Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz seemed to want to put on a show—a show that concealed the real dangers of using the trappings of Congress to interfere with the administration of justice.
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TAKEOVER
In Justice Sotomayor’s dissent to the Trump immunity ruling, Shan Wu heard the anger and isolation of a jurist seeing the court taken over by the power of a conservative majority.