Andrew McCarthy: “BRAGG’S PROSECUTION OF TRUMP VIOLATES NEW YORK STATE’S CONSTITUTION…Congress gave the Justice Department and the FEC exclusive enforcement authority over federal campaign law to ensure uniform application nationally of what is an esoteric, constitutionally fraught area of law. To allow any local prosecutor in the country, despite having no federal jurisdiction, to implicate these laws and impose his own version of them is the antithesis of what Congress intended…Bragg’s prosecution violates the U.S. Constitution because he is trying Trump on a crime — conspiracy to steal an election by violating federal campaign law — that is not charged in the indictment and is not even a New York crime….
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Andrew McCarthy: “BRAGG’S PROSECUTION OF TRUMP VIOLATES NEW YORK STATE’S CONSTITUTION…Congress gave the Justice Department and the FEC exclusive enforcement authority over federal campaign law to ensure uniform application nationally of what is an esoteric, constitutionally fraught area of law. To allow any local prosecutor in the country, despite having no federal jurisdiction, to implicate these laws and impose his own version of them is the antithesis of what Congress intended…Bragg’s prosecution violates the U.S. Constitution because he is trying Trump on a crime — conspiracy to steal an election by violating federal campaign law — that is not charged in the indictment and is not even a New York crime….