With campaign at full tilt, surprise! Jack Smith strikes again
By
Byron York
August 27, 2024 6:56 pm
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WITH CAMPAIGN AT FULL TILT, SURPRISE! JACK SMITH STRIKES AGAIN. Late Tuesday afternoon, Jack Smith, the Biden-Harris administration’s special counsel prosecuting Republican opponent Donald Trump, filed a new version of the indictment charging the former president with four felony counts related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6. Smith amended the indictment in an attempt to make it comport with the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity.
Smith was apparently in a race against time because the Department of Justice frowns on prosecutors indicting candidates too close to an election, and we are obviously getting close to an election. From the Washington Post: “In about 10 days, a Justice Department policy known as ‘the 60-day rule’ will take effect forestalling any new filing of charges against the former president, who is again the Republican nominee for the White House.” Now, you can look up the “60-day rule” and see that some experts believe the actual number is sort of vague or that it is really a 90-day rule. If that is the case, Smith missed the deadline by a lot. If the number is 60 days, he just made it.
In any event, Smith has without doubt violated an explicit DOJ guideline that says, “Federal prosecutors and agents may never select the timing of any action, including investigative steps, criminal charges, or statements, for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party.” By any accounting, Smith has stomped all over that one. How else would one describe an indictment of a presidential candidate that comes after both conventions and two weeks before the candidates’ debate?
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