"...President Trump was also preparing to bring to Your Honor’s attention today the record of misrepresentations and discovery violations that have marred this case from the outset and illustrate that the Office has disregarded fundamental fairness and its legal obligations in favor of partisan election interference."
"New evidence, obtained via requests pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), reveals that politically motivated operatives in the Biden Administration and the National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) began this crusade against President Trump in 2021. There are 22 FOIA releases from DOJ and NARA attached as exhibits to this brief. Nearly all of these exhibits, though heavily redacted based on FOIA rules that have no application in a criminal case, represent discovery violations in which the Special Counsel’s Office failed to produce documents that support arguments and positions the defense has articulated since at least October 2023."
#BREAKING Former AG Edwin Meese III, Seven G Calabresi, and Gary Lawson challenge the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith in Trump's Immunity case. They raise significant constitutional & statutory questions, urging court to reconsider prosecutorial authority.
"Jack Smith does not have authority to conduct the underlying prosecution. Those actions can be taken only by persons properly appointed as federal officers to properly created federal offices. Neither Smith nor the position of Special Counsel under which he purportedly acts meets those criteria."
"The illegality addressed in this brief started on November 18, 2022, when Attorney General Merrick Garland exceeded his statutory and constitutional authority by purporting to appoint Smith to serve as Special Counsel for the Department of Justice (DOJ)."
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Matt Gaetz 1st attempt to enter HB Laptop in the record. "I seek unanimous consent to enter into the record of this committee the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, which I am in possession of."
The ruling cites very specific limitations placed upon the AG. This is due to a "Legislature" limitation. IN other words, existing Law!
Further noted are two rules being cited.
Read very carefully. Very basically specific provisions will trump general ones. (as in this case). And secondly the more specific AND later encated statute controls. Meaning the newer specific law will trump older ones.