Today, the rule of law was thrown out the window — not by Trump but by special counsel Jack Smith.
Smith asked a federal judge to dismiss the indictment charging Trump with plotting to subvert the 2020 election.
Smith made a similar filing to an appeals court in Atlanta, thereby ending Smith’s attempt to reverse the dismissal of the federal case accusing Trump of illegally holding on to classified documents after he left office.
Both filings were a grave mistake.
What happened to the rule of law? What became of the principle that no person is above the law, not even a former president? What happened to accountability?
Smith says he had no choice, given the Justice Department’s policy that it’s unconstitutional to pursue prosecutions against sitting presidents.
But he did have a choice. He could have asked the courts to put the cases on hold until Trump is no longer president.
That’s essentially what Judge Juan Merchan did Friday with regard to sentencing Trump on his May conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
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