Jack Goldsmith
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462 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 10 Sep
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I thought that the documents prosecution was justified.
I was less convinced that the J6 prosecution against Trump was justified.
But whatever, that was a momentous decision in American history to bring that prosecution against your opponent.
And that was a norm violation, whether it was a justified one or not, people are going to debate about.
That is going to have a huge impact.
You're saying that
norm of... I wouldn't say that Biden did because he was nominally out of it because there was an independent counsel.
But yes, he did because, of course, the New York Times reports that...
that Biden was furious that Merrick Garland was sitting on his hands.
And Merrick Garland got that message.
That was certainly a violation of the norms.
He was meddling through the New York Times and the Justice Department's business.
So the Biden administration was not clean on this.
And then there was the kind of state stuff and other stuff that to Republicans seemed like
part of democratic weaponization.
And I think it's frankly a fair charge.
I don't think it justifies what Trump is doing, and Trump, for what it's worth,
has gone so far beyond that he's really taken it and run with it, including in his so-called anti-weaponization initiatives, which are weaponizing initiatives.
And this is why I worry very much about the tit-for-tat, because if we have increasingly spiraling upwards tit-for-tat weaponization where one party uses the tools of the executive branch enhanced by the unitary executive,
to try to destroy and affect the candidates and infrastructure of the other party, that's unsustainable for this country.
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