Steven Calabresi: “President Donald Trump's Manhattan Convictions are Unconstitutional: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleged that the documents were allegedly falsely altered to conceal a contribution of money in violation of federal campaign finance laws or in pursuance of winning the 2016 election by defrauding the voters of information they had a right to know. Neither argument passes First Amendment scrutiny. The federal campaign finance laws were partially upheld in Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976)….
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https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-8th-amendment-option
Andrew C. McCarthy: “ Executive Law 65(12) outlaws engaging in ‘repeated’ and ‘persistent’ fraud in business dealings. Well, okay, but if one engaged in such an egregious pattern of behavior, surely we’d expect to find some victims, right? At least one victim? I mean, if you’re going to incinerate a multibillion-dollar international conglomerate, shouldn’t there be, you know, a bank that lost, if not millions in depositor savings, at least a few bucks? Especially if, as in James’s case, at issue are more than a dozen years of financial dealings. But here: There’s no victim. No harm to any creditor or investor. No bank or insurance company brought in to say, ‘Donald Trump ruined us … or at least profoundly damaged us … or maybe, you know, shaved a few shekels off some middle-manager’s annual bonus.’”
Philip Hamburger, The Wall Street Journal: “Although Ms. James’s case against Mr. Trump concerns his real-estate valuations, much more is at stake...Rarely has there been a better opportunity to challenge the Executive Law for its assault on our freedom of speech.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/why_did_the_media_cover_the_congenital_liar_cohen_but_not_the_expert_witnesses_for_trumps_banking.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/former-ag-meese-georgias-prosecution-of-trump-an-unprecedented-affront-to-federal-supremacy/
“Trump Impeachment Lawyer David Schoen: Why 14th Amendment Will Not Keep Pres. Trump Off Ballot” https://rumble.com/v3fc8ee-trump-impeachment-lawyer-david-schoen-why-14th-amendment-will-not-keep-pres.html
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/03/jack-smiths-latest-indictment-is-legally-flawed-and-politically-suspect/
Thank you to the now legendary Gregg Jarrett for so much great work on the long-running Witch Hunt! https://thegreggjarrett.com/presidential-records-act-is-not-a-criminal-statute/