Federal prosecutors accuse Hunter Biden of accepting payments from a Romanian businessman "to influence U.S. government agencies" while his father was vice president.
  • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
    112·
    3 months ago

    Did judge Cannon decide that special counsels were actually illegal? So why do we care? And if we do care about this special counsel shouldn’t we also care about the one charging trump about all those classified documents?

    No, that isn’t what she said at all. Not all special counsels are illegal. It is that Jack Smith was not appointed properly that made it illegal.

    • Lauchs@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 months ago

      And that way, without Senate confirmation, is the same way in which David Weiss was appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden case.

      So, are you defending/citing the work of an illegal appointee? And if so, shouldn’t we also care about Jack Smith’s charges?

        • Lauchs@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          What do you see as the difference that made one appointment legal and the other illegal? (Other than one is investigating a Biden and the other is investigating trump.)

            • Lauchs@lemmy.world
              9·
              3 months ago

              Huh, so in other words Jack Smith was appointed in the exact same manner as Nicolas Bua, Malcolm Wilkey, and Frederick Lacey.

              But, I am glad you get the silly technicality that has been rejected by every other judge who has heard this nonsensical defense.

              • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
                110·
                3 months ago

                Jack Smith was not appointed in the same manner. When did Congress approve Jack Smith? They didn’t. That is the issue as outlined in the article.

                • Lauchs@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  3 months ago

                  And Congress (I think you actually mean Senate) didn’t approve Bua, Wilkey or Lacey as special counsel. (All were appointed by Barr in the same manner as Smith.)

                  • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
                    110·
                    3 months ago

                    Sounds like nobody challenged it or the prior courts had a different opinion.

                    Cannon got this from Thomas. So I expect this to go up the court system