4) perhaps is in the Biden family’s tarot card reading — their fortune telling. But DOJ under Biden cannot simply wish away Trump’s defenses.
Sadly, the Leftist media in their breathless frenzy will not try to educate their viewers on how complex statutory construction works.
And truth be told, most of the relevant viewers wouldn’t get it even if CNN tried. Because they have something akin to immunity to deep rational analysis. To logic. To the law.
2) Smith is particularly stymied by highly complex regulatory statutes.)
Here, Smith is totally ignoring the Presidential Records Act — but it’s on the field and cannot be ignored. When multiple statutes apply, they often must be harmonized.
One of the key principles of statutory interpretation is that the specific controls over the general. And the Presidential Records Act is the more specific statute given what the facts are at issue as alleged in the indictment.
3) It controls here over the Espionage Act unless, perhaps, Smith could show that Donald Trump was acting as a spy giving national defense info to our Nation’s enemies. And of course, he can’t because Trump is so loyal to the US he sweats Americana on a hot day and on a cold day his soup is red, white, and blue. So ironically, like many of the Left’s plays are really a form of psychological projection, the Espionage Act (as to China, Romania, and Ukraine) #TrumpIndictment
1) I’ve read the entire indictment. And I disagree @ mitchellvii.
Let me explain something to everyone about how statutory interpretation works. (And it’s clearly a weak spot for Jack Smith, given his 9-nothing smack down in the Supreme Court on the honest services case against former VA Bob McDonnell and his failed prosecution against wealthy Dem trial lawyer and VP candidate John Edwards. As the Edwards case shows,