Barbara McQuade

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424 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 7 Feb

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Fresh Air · Implications Of The DOJ Targeting The President’s Critics · 1 Oct 2025 podcast
They're able to review them quickly and conclude that there is nothing that is the basis of criminal charges here for misusing classified information was the basis of that investigation.
So now it's closed.
But of course, the headline is still there fresh in people's minds as they cast their ballots.
I think it's possible.
I imagine that Jim Comey's lawyers are at least thinking about filing a motion to dismiss this case on the grounds of selective prosecution.
for an improper purpose.
Sometimes that could be race, it could be religion.
One of the most famous cases of selective prosecution involved charges against operators of laundry services in San Francisco in wooden shops.
So after the Great Fire in San Francisco, there was a prohibition on running laundry services in wooden buildings because of the danger of fire.
But it turned out that the prosecutions were only brought against Chinese owners of laundry services in wooden buildings and not white operators.
And so they successfully brought a claim of selective prosecution.
You're only going after one race of people in prosecuting this case.
It's difficult to prove this claim, however, because it requires a couple of things.
One is showing that others similarly situated were not charged with crimes.
In the case of the laundry services, it was easy to do that because they could just line up and say, look, here are all the Chinese owners.
Here are all the non-Chinese owners.
These were charged.
These weren't charged.
In a case like Jim Comey's, it's hard to prove the negative that somebody else did make a false statement before Congress but wasn't charged.
But what's easy to prove in this case is the second element.
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