Summary

Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to step down from the Justice Department before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, likely preventing Trump from firing him.

Smith, appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump’s handling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will issue a final report, as required by Justice Department rules, before exiting.

Both federal cases against Trump are expected to wind down, as DOJ policy prohibits prosecuting a sitting president.

Judge Tanya Chutkan has requested an update on the cases by December 2.

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    24 hours ago

    Please don’t ever be lulled into believing that there is anything normal or sane about having a carve out that makes the President not subject to laws. This country was full on founded on the idea of rejecting kings. What an absolute joke of a nation we are. It’s just mustache twirling oligarchs and drooling peasant lemmings all the way down.

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      20 hours ago

      This country was full on founded on the idea of rejecting kings.

      I always believed that too but I’m not so sure anymore. How does something decent become so evil? Maybe it always was evil.

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      This country was founded on the idea of not paying tax if you’re rich, that poor people are akin to animals, and black people were created by god explicitly to serve whites.

      No idea where you got the idea that the country founded by rich tax dodgers and slavers rejected kings, they just didn’t want the kingmaker to be a religious institution outside of their control.