Hopefully, President Trump's lawyers will remind the Supreme Court today that the DOJ has responsibilities as well when it comes to pushing the outer limits of the law resulting in the triggering of constitutional issues. Specifically, the special counsel is using 3-federal statutes that have nothing to do with the events on January 6 in order to drag the former president into his prosecutorial crosshairs. The KKK act of 1876, the Enron obstruction law (which the Court is also looking at), and a law used to prosecute allegedly corrupt federal contractors. In other words, the special counsel claims the power to charge a former president for actions taken while he was president which, the special counsel claims were criminal by essentially re-writing the statutes to apply to January 6. THIS CASE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP is the perfect example underscoring why the special counsel's actions are a dangerous abuse of power by a prosecutor who is not only using creative interpretations of federal law to bring his charges but demands that the Court eviscerate presidential immunity (including its application after a president leaves office). The damage that would result to the office of the presidency is indisputable. As lawyers like to say, bad facts make bad law. Let's hope the justices remember this. Otherwise, Biden and future former presidents will not escape a prosecutor's wrath.
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