The Georgia indictment isn’t an improvement on New York’s legal credibility, but it does touch on federal jurisdiction. Plus, it's fraught with fluff and innuendo. Further, Fani Willis has spent an equal amount of time and energy trolling for campaign money and posing for cameras. That doesn't help her case. Her foreperson is a
caricature who went to the press and embarrassed herself and her State. But again, in a perfect world, that would have tanked the case. But we don’t live in a perfect world. We live in a divided partisan nation where political DAs make partisan powerplays.
The problem for Trump is, much like the “you can indict a ham sandwich” meme, one can
convict a ham sandwich, depending on the venue. The only venue where Trump stands a chance of a fair trial is Florida.
The
[new] letter from the House Judiciary Committee is a better attack on the latest indictment. It points specifically to the unprecedented attack on free speech and the use of public officials who use public platforms to object to election results no matter the results. When Trump won the 2016 presidential election, there were dozens, if not hundreds, of
elected officials who voiced their claims that the 2016 was illegitimate and stolen. No one prosecuted them. Why? Because it was standard fair. Make outlandish claims, and then sit down. We can ignore the outlandish because we know it is outlandish. This, frankly, isn't rocket science.
The letter from Congress has laid out their
case:
In explaining their rationale for federal oversight of the Georgia-based indictments, House Republicans referenced Willis’ alleged attempt to “use state criminal law to regulate the conduct of federal officers acting in their official capacities,” such as that of Trump and Meadows. The letter additionally raised questions about the involvement of Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith and whether Willis’ office “coordinated” with Smith “during the course of [her] investigation.”
“News outlets have reported that your office and Mr. Smith ‘interviewed many of the same witnesses and reviewed much of the same evidence’ in reaching your decision to indict President Trump,” the letter reads. “The House Committee on the Judiciary (Committee) thus may investigate whether federal law enforcement agencies or officials were involved in your investigation or indictment.”
The Georgia case is related to federal law and does impact potential federal jurisdiction. Unlike the New York indictment, the Fulton County indictment does touch on federal jurisdiction.
Fulton County’s new Trump indictment will face its first major challenge today, as Trump co-defendant Mark Meadows argues in Federal Court that the lawsuit should be taken away from Fulton County’s woke DA and moved to federal court, since federal law requires that federal officers accused of crimes while acting in their official federal capacities be tried only in a federal court.
