It did seem like the previous SC decision indicated that the president pushing the Justice Department to do his bidding was an “official act” that couldn’t be prosecuted. Makes sense that Smith pulled all of that out, although to me that was pretty egregious behavior unrelated to his official job duties.
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Per Scott MacFarlane, CBS news, this happened during court proceedings today in the election interference case.
Defense: Justice Thomas directed us to raise this issue
Judge Chutkan interjects: “He directed you to do it?”
Defense: Well… he didn’t direct us to
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I would not be surprised at all if Thomas was directly advising the defense, all for a proper fee of course.
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34 count sentencing delayed til after the election.
Looks like Aileen Cannon took lessons from the C. Thomas school of disclosure.
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