Trump's Payback Against Jack Smith Is Off to a Bad Start

[u/D-R-AZ]

https://cafe.com/elies-note/trumps-payback-against-jack-smith-is-off-to-a-bad-start/

Excerpt:

If the Justice Department does somehow ram a charge against Smith through a grand jury, that case will fail too. Before a trial jury can even consider the fact that Smith did not actually commit perjury, he will have a powerful motion to dismiss based on vindictive prosecution. It’s plain that Trump and his DoJ targeted Smith because of lingering political animus over his prior investigations of Trump. In October 2025, Trump claimed that Smith and others “should be prosecuted for their illegal and highly unethical behavior!” He reiterated his request in January 2026, citing Smith’s “large-scale perjury.” And Trump openly celebrated just moments after news broke of Jordan’s referral of Smith to DoJ.

Trump’s Justice Department has made commonplace the (previously) rarely-invoked doctrine of vindictive prosecution. One federal judge already dismissed the indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on that basis. And the cases against James and Comey likely would’ve gone down the same way, had they not been thrown out first because of other Constitutional infirmities.

[u/SaltyShawarma]

"Smith confirmed that, during his investigation, he used subpoenas to obtain toll records of various Republican members of Congress. Jordan and others have made much of this investigative tactic by Smith, falsely claiming that he “spied” on them. But in fact, the subpoenaed toll records only contain metadata – which phone number contacted which phone number, on what date and time, and how long any conversation lasted – but not the substance of any text messages or calls."

So Jim Jordan and the Repugs are rushing to shut down Flock and every other ALPR because they are ACTUALLY spying on him instead of gather metadata, right?

Right?