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Holy fuck.

Buttery males

some of which were classified.

But not properly marked as such per DOD regulations when sent to her.

So special attorneys, which have been used by pretty much every administration and every congress since the position was created, are not valid now?

Yep. Good luck to the Trump administration trying to enforce anything between this an Chevron.

was the way she dismissed it make it so he can't be charged again in either another jurisdiction or by the appropriate (in her mind) prosecution team?

I don't think so, it would have said dismissed with prejudice if so.

Also not an expert, but I don't think so.

The big threat of that would be a dismissal after a jury was sworn. At that point, jeopardy attached, so rebringing the case could be unconditional under the double jeopardy clause [0].

The virtually unappealable way to do this would be to wait until the prosecution finishes their case. At that point, the defense will file a routine motion for a directed verdict that judges routinely deny. The defense gets to do that again after presenting their case. In either case, the judge granting the motion is not apealable.

The judge could wait until after a verdict and issue a judgement not withstanding verdict, but that is appealable.

[0] Not always though. A mistrial from a hung Jury can always be retired. Other forms of mistrial may be retryable depending on the facts.

Please know lots of us in this country have no desire for this either.

I feel like an appeal is in order.

No no no, you see, it's only when the special counsel is looking into a republican that it's unconstitutional.

Yeah, but that would require real huge steel balls and the best the dems can do is a couple dried peas.

That Canon lady whom I'm not about to call a judge, and Harlan Crow's man friend said it's because Special Counsel Jack Smith was never confirmed as an attorney, where as all other historical Special Counsels were.

So they see him as an unconstitutional representative of the "Administrative State"... Because the rightwing in America are hard line constitutionalists (who still bend shit), they want to destroy the "administrative state" eg. Public Servants, eg. All the stuff that makes up a modern functioning nation.

It goes along with their "defund the government" and "defund the tax system" goals, and their goal to defund all revenue streams of the commons (via privatisation), and "getting rid of red tape" (eg. Public protections).

In the minds of conservatives there should be a basic criminal justice system, and nothing else. That's what they see as government.

Of course when they get into power it's all embezzlement and golden handshakes with corporate friends... So there's the facade they believe in and then what actually happens when they get into office, as there always is in politics.

...now with Project 2025, this pattern may never end.

History repeating itself like a carbon copy.

It's not supposed to happen this fast. There are supposed to be centuries and several generations in between until humanity forgets the atrocities and repeats their mistakes. It's like, as soon as eyewitness' are getting scarce the world acts like it never happened.

I wouldn't be laughing. Fascist states, after their internal purges, tend to need to expand. After these fuckers take over America, they'll come for the rest of the world.

We stopped laughing a long time ago.

ITS NOT FUNNY ANYMORE.

He doesn't get them

Honestly, I'm surprised she didn't just say it was legal because he was still the president since the election was a fraud and the president can do things like that.

Mostly because I'm trying to survive and get to the next day. I do not have the financial or social safety net required to do so. Really it's the latter that is the problem. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted a year. It wasn't a quick one and done kind of thing. As a society we are much less socially connected than we were in the past and we don't really have other people to rely on.

I agree with what you are saying, by not marching in the streets I am part of the problem. I don't know man, shit is fucked. I'm doing what I can but it's not much.

I wouldn't be surprised if I end up like one of the White Rose. It hasn't even been a century since then, smh.

Fuck