.ByronYork's Daily Memo: The 2024 election year will be a year of trials
THE 2024 ELECTION YEAR WILL BE A YEAR OF TRIALS. Every now and then, the attorney general, whoever he or she is, whichever administration he or she serves, writes a memo called"Election Year Sensitivities." The purpose is to remind the Justice Department's 115,000 employees that they should not allow politics to influence their work.
Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! And of course, Garland's Justice Department, if in fact special counsel Jack Smith indicts former President Donald Trump a second time, for Jan. 6 and actions to overturn the 2020 election, will be responsible for just two of the four trials that could entangle Trump in the election year. The other two will be the work of more openly partisan prosecutors, the elected Democratic district attorneys in Manhattan and Fulton County, Georgia.
In any event, the trial will likely take place during critical moments in the 2024 campaign. If the judge had approved the Justice Department's Dec. 11 request, the trial would have gone on in the weeks leading up to the Iowa caucuses and perhaps on caucuses day itself. Now, with the trial coming at some unspecified later date, it could happen during the primary season or during the Republican convention.
A more serious way of looking at it is to ask whether each case should have been, or should be, brought. The answer is easy with the Manhattan indictment. It should never have been brought. The documents case is more difficult. It appears beyond dispute that Trump mishandled classified information. But it's also beyond dispute that as president, he had a special status as far as classified information was concerned, and that status did not end entirely when he became a former president.
Just as a side matter, all of the prosecutors are setting a terrible precedent for future prosecutions of former presidents.
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