That means he's no competent to stand trial.
I think some disagree on the question of whether that was Hur's call to make, or whether Hur should have left that to a judge after hearing independent expert analysis -- that is the typical way this kind of question is resolved.
Hur made the decision as part of his exercise of prosecutorial discretion -- any trial would not ultimately end in a conviction.
If competent, a jury would likely acquit him not based on his innocence but rather is frailty.
Or he would be found not competent to stand trial.
But this fails to consider the whole point of security classifications -- it is to provide a flow of sensitive information to decision-makers, with no decision-maker being more important than POTUS.
Do you really prefer a circumstance where a potential incoming POTUS --
He's ahead in the polling -- comes into office without knowing everything that is needed to make informed decisions.
My default position is that new POTUS -- whoever he/she is -- makes the rules, not the NatSec bureaucracy.
If New POTUS wants to be China's best friend...
Then any NatSec official or military official who disagrees needs to resign - not try to advance their policy preferences as a "resistance" bureaucrat, or otherwise frustrate new POTUS.
"Ornato’s description of events also matched testimony offered by Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense, in the Colorado Supreme Court hearing about Democrat efforts to limit the ability of Americans to vote for the candidate of their choice.
The Colorado court, whose efforts to remove Trump from the ballot were so extreme they were overturned this week by a unanimous Supreme Court, claimed Patel’s “testimony regarding Trump authorizing” at least 10,000 National Guardsmen was “illogical” and
“completely devoid of any evidence in the record.” Because Ornato’s corroborating information had been suppressed from the public record by the January 6 committee, the Colorado Supreme Court improperly dismissed evidence."
Biden Admin cooking the books on job growth.
Report +275,000 jobs for Feb., way ahead of estimate of 198,000 jobs.
BUT -- revised downward jobs for Dec and Jan:
January down to 229,000 from 353,000 !!??!!??
Only overshot by 35%.
Of the 275,000:
68,000 in health care
52,000 in government
42,000 in food and beverage industry.
24,000 in "social assistance"
186,000 out of 275,000.
Manufacturing didn't go up.
Work Force Participation rate remains at historic lows -- 62.5%.
Work Force Participation rate measures the percentage of eligible workers who want employment that are employed.
It was highest in 10 years under Trump just prior to COVID at 63.3%.
It was at its highest ever during the boom of the 1990s at 67.2Dot.Com
She's not -- the Supreme Court has held that a defendant cannot delay a case for the purpose of gaining a tactical advantage where the delay will likely cause harm to the Govt's ability to present its case -- i.e., an elderly witness who might die. @BarbMcQuade
Delaying the case for tactical advantage is not allowed.
A common example -- after a case is pending for 3 years, moving to change attorneys a month before trial and then asking for a 6 month continuance for the new attorney to prepare. Usually won't be allowed.
The "publiç's interest" is in not having the quality of the Govt case decline/degrade by the passage of time when the defendant is stalling for that very purpose and no other. It never overrides due process rights.
That is not at issue here so that case law is irrelevant.
The more I think about today's events -- the arrest, cuffing, and shackling of my client Steve Baker, and the repudiation of DOJ's drive for lengthy sentences on glorified trespassing charges three Appeals Court Judges appointed by Democrat Presidents - the more pissed off I am.
I want in-person meetings with Jim Jordan, Chair of the House Judiciary Comm, and Sen. Lindsay Graham Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Comm.
I do not think they understand the actual mechanics of the lawfare employed by the Biden DOJ against J6 defendants.
It cannot be laid at the alter of partisan politics -- the three Judges today made that clear.
Three ostensibly "liberal" Judges declared Biden DOJ sentencing tactics -- to ratchet up the number of years of prison imposed -- is not permitted the way they have been arguing for it.