This is Michael Popoc, Legal A.F. Some people were worried, but not me that Jack Smith was going to have a hard time defending his indictment in the DC election interference case against the new immunity decision issued by the United States Supreme Court, the MAGA right wing of that court on July 1.

Everybody was dithering and wringing their hands.

Oh no, will the indictment survive? Will he be able to prosecute Donald Trump in the DC election

interference case? What will be the procedures? Don't worry. I already see corporate media

reporting this the wrong way. They're reporting it like

Jack Smith rejects opportunity to put on mini trial against Donald Trump.

That is written by people who don't practice law.

I hate to be rude, but let's just call it out for what it is on legal A.F.

For those that practice regularly in federal court, including criminal law,

let me tell you why the mini trial thing never was a thing. I mean it was

delicious. It was something I would have loved to have seen Mike Pence and all of the coup plotters be dragged in including from

their locations in prisons to testify against Donald Trump but that's not how you

test the veracity of an indictment. An indictment is issued by a grand jury.

The indictment has to rise or fall on its own merits, on its own four quarters of what is on the face of the indictment. A prosecutor is not allowed to

supplement the indictment, change the indictment. The indictment is the charging document.

It is issued from a grand jury. It informs the criminal defendant in our system

of justice who is presumed to be innocent about the charges against them and the evidence

against them.

Separately, the prosecutor has to provide an entire truckload, electronic or otherwise, of all of the documents, information, witness testimony, data that would both be incriminating

and exculpating, meaning tending to prove someone's innocence.

That is an obligation of the prosecutors in our

system of government and it has to be turned over in advance. And so that's

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