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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Michael Popoc, Legal A.F. We got Aileen Cannon, the judge in Maralago, |
0:04.3 | Troubles again because she can't figure out that the United States Supreme Court has |
0:09.1 | already 50 years ago, almost to the day, decided the question of whether the Department of Justice |
0:16.3 | can appoint a special prosecutor, a special counsel to investigate things where there may be an appearance of conflict of interest with the |
0:24.8 | Department of Justice. That decision has already been made. It settled law in U.S. versus |
0:30.0 | Nixon, where the Supreme Court at the time in an 8-0 decision with the Chief Justice |
0:34.8 | recusing himself at the time decided that the special prosecutor Leon Jaworsky |
0:41.6 | assigned by the attorney general at the time under a special regulation, not authorized by Congress, |
0:48.2 | but was a direct regulation that was created by the Department of Justice would, in effect, prosecute Nixon. |
0:57.6 | And the issue in US versus Nixon that Judge Cannon can't seem to get her mind around, |
1:02.6 | or she refuses to get her mind around, |
1:04.9 | as demonstrated by the hearing this past week |
1:07.6 | in her court that went on for five hours |
1:10.1 | is that the United States Supreme Court |
1:12.3 | has acknowledged the legitimacy of anyone holding the title of special prosecutor, |
1:17.6 | independent counsel, which I'll talk about separately, or special counsel, which is exactly what |
1:21.9 | Jack Smith is. |
1:24.2 | Let me back up for a minute. |
1:25.9 | In US versus Nixon, there was a fight over the secret tapes |
1:30.9 | that Richard Nixon had made in his office and recording other people as well was a |
1:36.3 | wiretapping, a legal wiretapping operation and the special prosecutor who was prosecuting |
1:41.4 | all things Watergate in 1974 |
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