Rewind this video: Special counsel Jack Smith should be unappointed, writes QuinHillyer.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s judgment already deservedly was in question regarding his decision to appoint any special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump. It is not clear at all whether a special counsel is necessary or wise. The specific choice of Smith, though, seemed not completely untoward. He has held numerous positions of distinction .
Still, the IRS situation already should have made Garland wary. Especially in a high-profile appointment with major political ramifications such as this one, the need for absolutely impeccable nonpartisanship is paramount. It’s not enough for Garland to “trust” that the special counsel is unbiased. Instead, there should be no decent reason for any observer to distrust the appointee’s objectivity.
Alas, even if Garland is determined to take the questionable step of appointing a counsel at all, a semi-thorough review by Garland should have made him find another person for the job. Smith’s wife, it turns out, is a hyperpartisan liberal movie-maker who donated $1,000 to Biden’s 2020 campaign and worked on a whole series of left-wing documentary or advocacy films, including a laudatory biographical film on former first lady Michelle Obama.
While it absolutely is not always right to assign a sort of political guilt-by-association with one’s spouse — couples certainly can have different political ideas and separate professional lives — this is not an ordinary situation. Garland is using subjective criteria to choose, rather than being forced, to appoint a special counsel, and the counsel is looking into a former president who has announced another candidacy.
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