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Aug 29 2024
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Trump Lawyer Scharf to Newsmax: 'Rogue' Jack Smith Interfering in Election
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, by bringing a superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump in his Jan. 6 case, is committing election interference by timing his action so close to the opening of early voting, Trump attorney Will Scharf, argued on Newsmax Thursday. "It is binding DOJ policy and has been for decades that you don't bring an indictment, you don't commit any overt
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Aug 28 2024
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Ex-Nixon Aide Dean: Jack Smith Will 'Keep Up the Fight'
John Dean, who served as White House counsel during the Nixon administration, said Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith will "keep up the fight" after issuing a superseding indictment in the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump. Smith filed the superseding indictment a day after he asked an appeals court to revive the classified documents case
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Aug 28 2024
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Jack Smith is feeling "confident" in new Trump indictment: Legal analyst
Special Counsel Jack Smith's new superseding indictment in former President Donald Trump's election fraud case signals his team is "confident," MSNBC legal analyst and criminal attorney Danny Cevallos told Newsweek. Filed on Tuesday after Smith sought a month-long delay in the case from Washington, D.C., District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, the new indictment is nine pages shorter than the
Newsweek
Aug 28 2024
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JD Vance says Jack Smith's indictment is "classic lipstick on a pig"
Special Counsel Jack Smith's fresh indictment of former President Donald Trump is a "classic" example of "lipstick on a pig," Ohio Senator JD Vance, Trump's running mate, said Tuesday. Smith filed a new indictment against Trump on Tuesday. It does not include any new charges but reworked the same four felony counts that Trump was indicted on last August—all of which he has consistently denied
Newsweek
Aug 28 2024
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Jack Smith Files Amended Indictment of Trump over Jan. 6 Insurrection
In news from Washington, special counsel Jack Smith has filed a revised indictment against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump faces the same criminal charges in the case, but Smith reworked parts of the original indictment after the Supreme Court granted Trump broad immunity for official acts he took as president. The case is not expected to go to
Democracy Now!
Aug 28 2024
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Jack Smith’s targeted indictment faces a bigger test than immunity
We may never learn if special counsel Jack Smith’s new indictment passes the Supreme Court’s immunity test. If Donald Trump wins a second term in November, he’ll be empowered to end the prosecution that accuses him of breaking the law in trying to overthrow the last election. The superseding indictment filed Tuesday more closely conforms to the Republican-appointed majority’s broad grant of
MSNBC
Aug 28 2024
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Jack Smith zeros in on Mark Meadows in new Donald Trump indictment
Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, has been inserted into a key part of the new superseding indictment against Donald Trump. The new indictment has a greater focus on Trump's actions in Georgia, where Meadows and 18 others were indicted on a charge of election fraud. Meadows has also been indicted in Arizona on election-fraud charges. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Newsweek
Aug 27 2024
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Special Counsel Jack Smith revises indictment against Trump - SCOTUSblog
Just under two months after a divided Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for their conduct in office, Special Counsel Jack Smith charged former President Donald Trump in a revised indictment alleging that Trump conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The court’s July 1 ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that former
SCOTUSblog
Aug 27 2024
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Neal Katyal: Jack Smith gives Judge Cannon a lesson in the law
This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 26 episode of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." On Monday, federal prosecutors filed a brief urging an appeals court to reverse Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case against Donald Trump. Last month, Cannon, a Trump appointee, tossed out the case and ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and
MSNBC
Aug 27 2024
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BREAKING: Trump NEWLY Indicted By Jack Smith In Election Crimes Case
Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment in the federal election subversion case against former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday.
According to Smith, the new indictment is meant to reflect “the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States.”
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