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submitted 23 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Summary

Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to step down from the Justice Department before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, likely preventing Trump from firing him.

Smith, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump’s handling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will issue a final report, as required by Justice Department rules, before exiting.

Both federal cases against Trump are expected to wind down, as DOJ policy prohibits prosecuting a sitting president.

Judge Tanya Chutkan has requested an update on the cases by December 2.

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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 84 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Please don’t ever be lulled into believing that there is anything normal or sane about having a carve out that makes the President not subject to laws. This country was full on founded on the idea of rejecting kings. What an absolute joke of a nation we are. It’s just mustache twirling oligarchs and drooling peasant lemmings all the way down.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

This country was full on founded on the idea of rejecting kings.

I always believed that too but I'm not so sure anymore. How does something decent become so evil? Maybe it always was evil.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 39 points 22 hours ago

So maybe I'm getting sometging wrong here?

"DOJ policy prohibits prosecuting a sitting president" how is this not in conflict with a prosecuted candidate (for other crimes) being allowed to be president?

[-] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 33 points 22 hours ago

Oh it makes no goddamn sense, but yet here we are.

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 12 points 19 hours ago

Well you see, the law doesn't apply to some people. Hope this helps.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 21 hours ago

The constitutional electoral process supersedes DOJ policy.

[-] thoralf@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 20 hours ago

I cannot blame him. I wouldn’t want to work under a criminal that I’m currently prosecuting either.

He’s way too smart to wait to be humiliated by the orange buffoon.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

Well what the fuck else is he supposed to do. This is what people voted for.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

If he's smart he'll have his family out of the country by then too. I know Trump planned on firing him, and I think Smith is smart enough to know that he'll use a firing squad when he does it.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago

Smart man. Sorry your country isn’t free anymore.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago

"You can't fire me, I quit."

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