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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Monday, November 21st, 2022. Today, Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed Jack Smith, Special Counsel to investigate Donald Trump,

a shooting at an LGBTQ plus club in Colorado Springs with an assault weapon, leaves 5 dad in 18 injured. A GOP operative is convicted of funneling money to Donald Trump, a Florida judge blocks DeSantis's anti-woke law for colleges, and evidence shows Justice Alito leaked the Hobby Lobby decision before it was released.

I'm your host, Allison Gil.

Boy, we couldn't have had a busier weekend of news that began on Friday and just kept going, including this really, really terrifying and disturbing story about the Supreme Court and Justice Alito that dropped on a Saturday.

And it just kept going throughout the weekend. Later in this show today, I'm going to be talking with the author of Where Lawends, Andrew Weissman, who has co-authored a model prosecution memo for the documents case alongside other brilliant legal minds like Joyce Vance, Norm Eisen and Ryan Goetz,

and Norm Eisen and Ryan Goodman have just security. And with the news of the appointment of a special counsel, I will not be starting a podcast called Jack Smith, she wrote, but you can get all things special counsel right here on the beans with appropriate profanity.

And we have yet another shooting with an assault rifle targeting the LGBTQ plus community. There are five dead and 18 injured at a nightclub in Colorado Springs. This is a direct result of violent political rhetoric coming from the magaside.

This suspect is in custody, apparently a patron of the club took his handgun away from him and hit him in the head with it. And that's what ended the shooting spree. Now, I'm not going to repeat his name. He's in custody, but we'll keep you up to speed as to motive as details become available, but it seems pretty obvious.

I'm hoping there will be hate crimes charges federal charges. I hope they throw the book at the kid. And then we need to ban assault weapons in the United States, which Joe Biden is calling for.

So this is absolutely tragic. Of course, all of my thoughts and my love go out to the community of Colorado Springs, the LGBTQ plus community there as well, family and friends and everyone who was impacted by this. Absolutely disgusting attack on peaceful people.

So very sad by that news today. We do have a lot to get to. Let's hit the hot notes hot notes. All right, Friday, Marik Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate Donald Trump and two of the criminal probes currently underway, including the fraudulent electors scheme to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power and the Mara logo documents case. His name is Jack Smith.

He's a former Hague war crimes prosecutor, former a USA worked at EDNY for a while, former chief of public integrity unit of the Department of Justice. Oddly enough, he worked there alongside Donald's lawyer Jim trusty, but I think he was in a different unit. I think he was in the crimes unit.

Now, a lot of people are bafflingly upset by this appointment, but I've been calling for a special counsel for a long time back in October of 2021. In fact, over a year ago. And here's why first the power, a special counsel has prosecutorial powers.

They can grant all their team members the full power of a US attorney. They can indict and their subpoenas are toothy because their grand jury subpoenas. And if you flout a grand jury subpoena, you can go to jail or be fined or both.

Second, speed. I know you feel like Mueller and Durham took forever. And there, you know, it did take two years for them to wind down with three years for Durham and and read report, but it only took five months before Mueller started making it rain indictments.

On the likes of Manifording Gates, for example, it would be their only focus, by the way, these two investigations, unlike a US attorney in DC or the FBI without a special counsel, they have a ton of things that they have to investigate.

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