With barely over a month before one of the most consequential U.S. presidential elections in modern times, Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped a 165-page motion against Donald Trump that was unsealed Wednesday. (The motion was regarding his D.C. criminal case against the former president, which had to be adjusted to take into account this summer’s Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling).
Timing is everything: BREAKING: Judge Chutkan Unseals Jack Smith’s Immunity Motion in DC Election Case Against Donald Trump
When a justice department controlled by one party goes after the leading candidate in the rival party just as people are starting to vote, one can’t help but think of the phrases “election interference” and “banana republic.”
CNN Senior legal analyst Elie Honig was appalled by the move, calling it a “cheap shot” in a New York magazine editorial Thursday,…
