From WSJopinion: Be prepared for a new and startlingly elastic precedent to ensnare plenty of others. That’s the biggest problem with Jack Smith’s latest broadside against Donald Trump, writes KimStrassel.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-unprecedented-jack-smith-special-counsel-donald-trump-president-fraud-c076a2eeIf lying politicians can be prosecuted for ‘fraud,’ as he proposes in the Trump indictment, we’ll need a lot of new prisons.Wonder Land: At the center of the legal problems now engulfing Donald Trump and Hunter Biden is the refrain that no one is above the law. Wagner Group's Yevgeny Prigozhin offers the alternative: No rules.
If there’s one word to describe what everyone might wish Washington would stop producing, it’s “unprecedented.” Yet here we go again, with special counsel’s unprecedented indictment of a politician for engaging in “a conspiracy to defraud the United States.” Be prepared for this new and startlingly elastic precedent to ensnare plenty of others.Continue reading your article with
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