The New Special Counsel Is Bad News For Trump
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@ Legal Eagle.... hunter and joe investigation,and irs onslaught on poor people these baffle me.
IM ON CRACK
FTC suing Microsoft. I would like to know from a lawyer what kind of case the FTC has. Love your video no matter what you do.
This has gone far beyond just stupid. It's starting to look like a vendetta.
Ugh. It's always "We can't investigate him because of this, we can't investigate because of that, we can't investigate because it will look political, we just won't investigate Gaetz or Giuliani because I decided not to." I fail to see how this is an even standard of justice.
"credibility issues" with Gaetz witnesses. Weird how a biased as hell cop's word is good enough to get you in full on rape prison but they drop this.
They need to stop trying to take the high road against an opponent who has proven that they're willing to go low.
@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 Seriously. The moment Obama was blocked from filling a supreme court justice seat was the moment republicans lost ALL lenience as far as the justice system is concerned.
@@ananthropomorphictalkinggo6641 You should watch a video Innuendo Studios made called "The Alt Right Playbook - They go low, we go high" covers this topic and is a great entry in the series.
He's never going to see any justice because of this. Democrats are gonna wave their heads in dismay right into a right wing coup at this rate.
This sort of thing is eternally frustrating to me:
"The President has asked me to do something I find illegal or unacceptable. I am refusing to do it. I will resign so the President can have someone else put in place to do it."
It's kind of how companies justify importing products tied to child labour: "If we don't do it someone else will..."
If they really believe strong enough to stop it, they'd stay in place and make it harder.
Pretty sure the alternative was to get fired so resigning doesn’t change the outcome of said person is no longer in said position.
@@Avarren That's true. It's still incredibly frustrating.
I mean, unless it really is illegal, it is their job to follow those orders. Resigning is the appropriate alternative.
"Drawing the line between political action and bribery is very tough to do, let alone get convictions" is such a depressing sentence to describe our legal system.
The day someone figures out a good political system where financial concerns are disconnected from political concerns will be a good day indeed... Unfortunately I don't believe such a system could even exist, but I'd welcome being proven wrong on this.
@@TheMightyDozen I mean, there's a difference between a political system where money is a concern/risk (which will always happen), and a political system that practically makes bribery legal by just calling it "lobbying."
Our what? Where?
Every country on the whole planet has the same problem, and some manage to get better results than others, just look around don't be such exceptionalist hypocrites, Americans! The trick is to make the appearance of anything improper illegal, so you don't have to prove intent. When I have a business relationship with a customer company I have to make sure nothing is offered or accepted that could be interpreted as personal gain for me or my counterpart in the other company. Why can't American politicians be held to the same standard?
@@saxor96 OK, let's make it more specific: A good political system where the personal-financial concerns of politicians are disconnected from their actions as public figures. This I would also argue cannot exist.
You can't send me to jail, officer, I'm JUST put in my application to Starbucks.
Or, here me out here, we could investigate and prosecute suspects regardless of their activities or public office, and not allow people to be above the law...
you mean like Biden ?
@@alr2157 🤡I guess you also think the election was stolen from Donny even though two years later they've still failed to provide a shred of evidence. Seriously clown, isn't Tucker on to tell you what to think?
@@alr2157 if more people had seen Biden's kid's private parts, they definitely would have voted for a tall toddler in an ill-fit suit on his third wife :(
@@alr2157 I love how this is meant to be a gotcha question. Yeah, if he's guilty, lock him up.
hear*
"It appears Garland has chosen not to prosecute Matt Gaetz and Rudy Guiliani." [Deep breath].
That [deep breath] says a lot more on the matter than Garland ever will.
It's says garland is a coward.
WTF? Since when? I just saw a vid on Meidas Touch covering Gaetz's ongoing issues w/ DOJ.
Meidas Touch is a political ad group. Their mission is to make it look like Republicans are weak and in trouble. You're not watching a news source. You're just watching political ads
@@userboscothe DOJ’s top apologists.
Garland the Gutless
I think I'm going to go commit some crimes and then also immediately run for public office since that's apparently all it takes to not be charged
This kind of shit has been going on for ages tbh. I recall a case hundreds of years ago in the UK where a guy served a year in Parliament to avoid getting charged for murdering some dude. Depressingly, nothing new.
looks like there's one justice system for the politicians and a much stricter one for the rest of us
let’s be perfectly clear: there is one justice system for the rich and famous and politically connected, and then there’s the system for the rest of us.
See, I'm not even sure that's the issue here. That may play something of a role, but I think the cult following (that in some cases is literally religious, Trump appears to have the undying support of several mega-pastors and innumerable smaller ones), that has already tried to overthrow the government once, is what has people handling this carefully. No one really wants to start another civil war.
All this committee talk reminds me of the bureaucracy episode of Futurama. " I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulation's in... We kept it grey!"
You said it.
Announcing candidacy to avoid prosecution should be a crime in and of itself.
That only works if you happen to be rich, white, cisgender, hetero, 'christian' and male.
If you aren't all the above, you can announce a candidacy till you're blue in the face but it won't save you from an indictment.
Edit: forgot to add 'hetero' to the list.
@@brianjensen5661
You seem to have missed the last 30 years of US history. By all means go read up. Black females have much higher privilege standards these days.
If I take a brick and beat a 90+ year old nearly to death while screeching 'go back to your own country', in front of small children, I get life in prison, maybe a death sentence. Using racial and pussy privilege, BLM activist Laquisha Jones got 15 years and the 5 BLM Brothahs that helped her, got even less, for attempted first degree murder as a hatecrime.
If I have 20 white people join me to block a road and we drag a black trucker out of his cab and proceed to lynch him while screaming "Kill him, kill him", we all get arrested and we all get 10+ years at least.
When a black lynchmob did the exact same thing to a white trucker, only the victim was arrested and all the lynchmobbers were let go.
@@brianjensen5661 😂😂 did a 'rich, white, cisgender, 'Christian' male' hurt your feefees?
@@brianjensen5661 I mean... Epstein made the 'hetero' thing debatable for rich people in the worst possible way.
@@IAsimov it only seems that way because you're mistaking Epstein's sexuality. He wasn't hetero; he was pedo.
I'm not American but everytime I watch news or even just this channel I get the feeling it's scarily hard to hold politicians in the US accountable to their actions.
Not to say it's any easier where I live, it might be or might not be but I wouldn't know. It's just that feeling of unchecked power that makes me have really bad feelings whenver I hear about it.
Yeah, between everything about the Clintons and Maxwell's client list never being released, it's really obvious our gov doesn't care about justice.
Since the rich run the country, they can alter the laws to benefit them the most, which makes it damn near impossible for them to be held accountable for any of their actions or prosecuted for any real crimes... or serve any real punishment if they are found guilty. It is a real shit show at times.
Yup. It's pretty well known that every president does incredibly illegal things. Trump just pushed that too far.
Nothing sticks to Teflon Don. Never going to ever see charges brought and he’s going to be re elected. Then the laws will change allowing for those who oppose him to be prosecuted and convicted
@@russellstewart5414 Wow.... why bother having laws at that point if you just want to change laws willie nillie to imprison those who oppose what you don't like? I mean, that is straight up Stalin and Putin at that point. Better never be on the wrong side, comrade.
I look at Jack Smith's eyes and my response is "OK, how much time and where do I sign?". A vibe of a cross between a lauded legal professor and the Terminator. He will not stop...EVER!
It seems really ridiculous that we have to prove he did things we all saw him do, right in front of our faces repeatedly. All I'm saying is if I stole a candy bar from Walmart I would have to talk to police.
Exactly
No you wouldn't the police are not gonna waste their time on a random candy bar lmao what? Horrible example dude
@@MousechrisTFM i think we both understand the argument hes making tho
He's also confessed in public multiple times
@@MousechrisTFM. *the point*
You
"The special counsel is funded by the independent counsel appropriation...so Congress can't defund Jack Smith in this case." Thanks for that info. Empty G has been saying she would push Congress to do just that. Once again, she knows nothing, apparently.
The state just wanted to export her, FAR away from them so she can’t get back. Personally, the middle of a forest would suffice better.
Garland, however, can defund him if he doesn't like where it's going, and can block any indictment.
Garland declined to prosecute Trump over the Mueller investigation.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is terribly stupid.
Look up the Meides report. They issued information on this within hours of the appointment. Very informative.
Nb also love this channel
What she wants is to use the Holman rule. Which allows Congresspropose amendments to appropriations bills that target specific programs or individuals. I really doubt this would happen tho lmfao
Jack Smith looks like the hardcore antagonist in a crime thriller portrayed from the perspective of the perpetrator.
We've been here before. We all thought the last special counsel was going to nail him to the wall but it took forever and was ultimately toothless. The rich and powerful are simply given a pass on things that would send the rest of us to prison and it's really disheartening.
Partly thanks to Bill Barr. But Moeller doesn't get a pass for refusing to be more affirmative in speaking out during the hearing and in insisting on following that "tradition" of not recommending an indictment of 45.
They're trying so hard to get him on something, whatever there is possible. But maybe, just maybe, he didn't do anything wrong?..
@@JVLeroy223 yup lol 😆
@@JVLeroy223 right, he probably did none of the crimes he openly brags about 😕
@@JVLeroy223 My policy is that if he'd actually done anything they could pin him for, they'd have gotten him by now. They're so desperate to find something, they impeached him twice, and yet none of it stuck. At this point, they're mostly just damaging their own credibility by continuing to pursue him, because anyone who didn't think he was guilty from the start is looking askance at this whole mess.
I used to be an addict and had a problem with the law... Before that my opinion of lawyers was... Not that good. After having a public defender help me get into a free drug rehabilitation center instead of doing 6 months in jail. I have an appreciation of lawyers. Especially public defenders. Not all lawyers are lying money hungry unethical people. My lawyer seriously helped me.
lawyers are actually much better than average people. Their job holds them to a much higher ethical standard than most.
@@alphanerd7221 Some are heroes, some are devilish. In UK, my opponent's lawyers abused me. I couldn't pay for a lawyer. They took unfair advantage e.g ambushed me with rules & cases in the courtroom. They're supposed to tell you in advance so that you have a fair amount of time to prepare a response.
@@alwaysdisputin9930 That sounds like BS.
@@alphanerd7221 what do you mean?
@@alwaysdisputin9930 What I said.
We need some serious political and judicial system reform in this country.
Crafted by the good clean politicians we have in congress?
Who is gonna do that?
Can you just imagine the Ace Attorney justice system?
Honestly, most of it isn't even that the law needs to be reformed. It's just straight up not being enforced. A lot needs to be overhauled but Trump and his cronies have been getting away with blatantly illegal actions under current law this whole time.
@@cesarbugarini499 getting rid of the shitty people who shouldn’t hold any position of power is part of the goal of political reform.
“drawing the line between political action and bribery is very tough to do” that seems like a problem
I’d love to see you explain the potential impact of Moore v. Harper. Seems to me this could be, without overstatement, the most important case that SCOTUS has ever heard.
I think the middle three Justices (Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Barrett) are going to flinch on this case. They really want to throw the outcome to the NC GOP, but in so doing they would destroy all future elections.
Both parties have been doing it for many decades, and it's legal under the Constitution.
I'll believe something will be done at the time it is done and not one second sooner.
I also believe that things are what they are unless they're not.
Same
Lyndsay and Swyllikx showing off their inner zen
Something like what, searching his residence? Denying his security clearance? Disbarring his lawyer? Arresting his Lawyer?
Same. Otherwise, it's pure speculation.
John Smith looks like the kind of guy who could just sit across from a suspect and stare at him, thereby causing the suspect to confess.
So he's Garak?
"His eyes! HIS EYES!"
@@michaelgreenwood3413 more like a Teal'c from SG1.
All we've really seen from John alias "Jack" Smith are a couple of old still photos
Adding the guitar riff for American Idiot when taking about the insurrectionist normies was a perfect touch, bravo sir, bravo.
Love the use of "American Idiot" in the background when showing Greene and McCarthy haha.
Jack Smith looks intimidating enough that he could play his own part in an overly dramatic "based on a true story" movie of this Special Counsel story.
He does have a bit 'Christopher Lee' hanging over him.
Hahahah! well said!!
@@Outside85 With Coach Beard vibes, too.
I was thinking the same thing… he looks hella intimidating.😮
He's one of the few that's still looks bafassed shaved and in a suit too
so everytime I've heard someone on youtube, cnn, legal experts, and any kind of social media say something along the lines of- "Bad news for trump, or trump is in trouble, or trump is going to be this or that" it never ends up happening.
In a few centuries, some one will find Trump guilty. They can dig up his corpse and put him on trial, like a crazy pope of old.
That's life for like 99.9% of politicians. You would have to have a film of Trump punching 20 babies and saying "I am Donald Trump I love punching babies and commting war crimes" and even then lawyers would spend billions to somehow spin that into a 5 year sentence at worst. Likely would get out and people say either the babies deserved it or it's all fake
Totally agree, they get our hopes up then a crash and burn. Teflon Don will always slide by....always.
I know but it's actually happening now!!! The fat man has ran out of rope to hang himself with, Jack Smith is poised to kick out the chair!!
True, will he ever end up behind Bars, sadly i doubt it.
As always, the SOFTEST of kid gloves and the gentlest possible handling of Donald Trump’s many crimes, proving that, once again, our justice system is not intended to hold the rich and powerful accountable in the slightest.
The building of a rocket or a nuclear bomb takes similar levels of care and precision, and looks like nothing from outside the process until the fatal moment.
Well yeah, they have to use kid gloves, have you seen the size of Trump's hand? Adult gloves would never fit him
In Trump's case, I'm not sure id it's due to money, but rather the massive, cult-like following that has already tried to overthrow the government by force once. It includes more than a few actual mega-pastors who pretty much consider him...not quite the second coming of Jesus, but maybe Solomon or David. Combining religion and politics to that degree gets genuinely dangerous.
The best legal arguement ever: There are reasons! Wow. Never would have guessed.
I still doubt they'd listen, he should really sell Trump-brand earmuffs with his trading cards!
This is all very informative and interesting. It’s also very depressing, it feels like the justice department is constantly spinning it’s wheels
_it feels like the justice department is constantly spinning it's wheels_
If _feels_ like it?
They ARE. It's all designed to keep tensions high until such point Dolt-45 is re-installed as supreme leader in 2024. America, Done.
Jack Smith has wrapped up the special master BS and sent loads of subpoenas, also filing for contempt of Trump's legal team over failure to find/return documents.
If you look at Meidastouch or No Lie by Brian Tyler Cohen with Glenn Kirschner which covers progress
Any indictments that fall on Trump are going to have to be beyond bullet proof. If nothing else, Trump has shown he's perfectly able to drag out cases for great lengths of time. They are going to want to make any appeal be completely groundless. To do that they need everything on Trump to be beyond bulletproof.
They are two sides of the same coin. They can't prosecute each other
Unless Republicans decide they can use the prosecution
Smiths headshots make him look like the grizzled retired priest who lost his faith, in act 3 of an exercism movie, the part where he's found it again and is about to go all "not today satan!"
A real Bad Ass!
I'm going with Rasputin at the beginning of a biopic.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You said that perfectly! My imagination said you nailed it. Write a book.
I’m totally getting hooked on LegalEagle-you’re making me a law geek! Keep up the great work.
I’m so grateful for these videos. It has to be exhausting to have to make them about Trump so often, but you’re providing so much important information and context to things that most of the major media outlets think we’re too dumb/lazy to understand, or are too dumb/lazy to understand themselves. There’s never been a more important time for citizens to have a basic understanding of the law. I’m not using hyperbole here when I say that what you do here is nothing short of patriotism.
And then Merrick Garland called me and said, "Sir, what you have done here is so incredible; no one has ever done anything like this before. So we are assigning you your own Special Prosecutor." Isn't that amazing? Never before in this great nation's history has there been such a special prosecutor. Imagine, I am so great and wonderful of a king that I get my own special prosecutor! [With apologies to Fedos. Just thought I'd fix your syntax and amplify it a little]
"Uh, YES SIR! It's even BETTER than a Special Master!! Um, more important, and uh, more prestigious! Only TOP cases get a special prosecutor!"
i heard that bit of Green Day's "American Idiot" playing behind the shaman and MTG, bravo sir.
With how much Devon has covered Trump's various legal ventures, I'm shocked to find there isn't a dedicated Donald Trump playlist
Wait, one can avoid prosecution by entering an election? Shouldn't it be you cannot run in an election if you are under prosecution?
i'm so sick of hearin conservatives saying its " poliitically motivated" i mean literally everything is. and i swear i've ehard that " the timing is bad" for the last like four years, the timing will never be good. they just keep complaining
Like it's ever stopped them. 🙄
They are just the victim in every scenario. It's sad
They do that for everything. Mass shooting happens? Okay, can we get gun control? No, its too soon, we need thots and payers! And then another shooting happens. Gun control now? No, more thots, more payers. And on and on.
Everyone must be held accountable for their actions, ESPECIALLY our leaders.
Devon, I just wanted to know, I've been following your content for a couple of years now and I love your format and how you teach about the legal process. Thanks for all the great content you create (I follow you over on Nebula too!). Keep up the great work. I'm sure 2023 will give you plenty of great fodder for content, and I look forward to your take on things!
Recently found your channel and am binging your videos. Thanks for presenting your knowledge in a way even I can understand it
Sounds like the Public Integrities section is completely useless since you're investigating people who have the power to just stop you and throw out everything you do.
@@echoshatter Ah but then who makes sure they're not corrupt?
@@candiman4243 And thus the triangle becomes a circle of corruption and power abuse.
The Special Counsel's Hague yearbook picture looks scary. I'd be scared if I was being prosecuted by someone that looks like he can chew up war criminals and mafioso and spit them out.
Yeah, so did Mueller. Look how that turned out
@@Bubbles99718 Trump was president during Muellers investigation and AG Barr h>trumps lapdog finally shut it down.
To me he looks like a Professor from the Durmstrang Institute (think TriWizard Tournament from Harry Potter)
@@Bubbles99718 The video actually goes over the ways Mueller's investigation was constrained and how Smith's very much is not.
Edit: Also, Smith looks like Special Council Coach Beard
@@nommchompsky yeah and that was bs. Even Burr when asked about it said, "if Mueller thought there was indictable offenses he should have indicted."
That little bit from American Idiot at 3:32 is just... *chef's kiss*
Loved that little “WoOoOoOo” in the sponsor ad at the end 😂
"We can't indict a sitting president, it would be an international embarrassment!"
President does irreparable damage to the country while committing multiple crimes, making the country an international embarrassment...
Doing that is called a Coup-d’etat. A real one, not the pseudo one DemocRats are saying about Jan. 6.
If causing Irreparable damage and multiple crimes is your reason, why not have the Entire Biden Administration and the entire DemocRats lined up in on a wall already. You know how many times here in Asia are we slapping our face at the many Blunder and total Disasters your government is doing. We are laughing at you now America.
@@inisipisTV I'm not American. You sound awfully angry at the Biden adminstration and suspiciously like an American Republican voter who is posing as somebody living in Asia for some reason.
Seems a lot of effort for a youtube comment reply...
I thought the problem with indicting a sitting president was that it was determined that nothing in the presidential pardoning rules says a president can't pardon himself. So if you convicted a president who still held his office, he could immediately just pardon himself to get out of the consequences. Thus you must first impeach the president and remove him from office before you can charge him criminally. It's a pretty stupid loophole.
I REALLY appreciated the soft background playing "American Idiot"... That was a nice touch that made me laugh, thanks! 🤣👍
That Grisham book reminded me of the 90s show Dark Justice. I would love to see Legal Eagle do a lawyer review of this show. It's classic 90s cheese: the main character is a Judge by day, and vigilante by night.
You're right, that joke never does get old. It's a perfect joke. The best joke. Specialists told me they're amazed by that joke.
Remember Merrick Garland's background, he was Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the entire reason he brought in an objective third party is to review the evidence because the DOJ has every intention of indicting Trump, and Garland want's to make sure it sticks this time and that none of the crap gets on their suits.
Yeah, I think Garland’s being extremely cautious rather than a coward or limp stick.
Do it right, not fast.
Then why didn’t he do this two years ago?
@@warlordofbritannia That’s exactly what people were saying about Mueller. He did worse than nothing. He wasted almost two years knowing he wasn’t going to do anything. All theater.
@@carlodave9 The video explains it at around 8 mins in.
@@carlodave9 because two years ago he hadn't collected and reviewed all the evidence.
Due process takes time.
Cant wait for the next video to see how you interpret and explain the 4 criminal charges referred to the DOJ. This will be good.
I just wanna say I love the inclusion of the song American Idiot early on the video lol
Legal Eagle is the greatest legal youtuber. He is the most beautiful, the smartest, you know people call me to say this Legal Eagle guy is really special. A very stable genius. Tremendous.
I see what you did there 😂
He's the greatest legal mind
It's amazing, Trump rolls out his ridiculous lines over and over. Is he hypnotizing people?
What you wrote there is a great example of what's colloquially called d... sucking. (I think you know what that 'd' stands for.)
@@WarpRulez And what you wrote here, dear friend is colloquially called a 'WHOOOOOOSH'
Love the shade thrown at MTG and Lil' Kev with the American Idiot riff playing in the background
I loled at the opening joke, it truly never gets old
Hot damn I love your transitions!
Best transitions into sponsors on RUclips
Abundant evidence exists in the public domain to establish guilt. The question is not "Is Trump guilty?"; the question is "Is the rule of law still a thing?"
Guilty of doing things which are not illegal?
@946 Towguy I'm not sure I'm understanding your meaning. Are you suggesting that it's not illegal to commit Fraud, Sexual Assault, Mishandling/Destruction of Public Records and Classified Documents, Obstruction of Justice, Witness Tampering, Reckless Endangerment, Seditious Conspiracy, Insurrection, and Felony Murder?
@@clocksurfer You either have a vivid imagination or just like to say things which make no sense.
@946 Towguy Wrong. Trump committed several of these crimes in full view of the public, and has made several public statements in which he (inadvertently?) confessed to some of the crimes. In fact, with regard to sexual assault, he actually BRAGGED about doing it habitually.
@@946towguy2 it makes perfect sense. Seems like you need to work on your reading comprehension and stop maintaining a ridiculous level of wilful ignorance.
What I'm hearing here is that if you are a politician, law doesn't apply to you and you will never get any punishment.
I could have gone the rest of my life without seeing the image at 5:17 but thanks for sharing it anyway.
That stock photo guy at the end is reading Dostoyevsky and Kafka, I'm impressed
So what I'm hearing is, this special counsel has been the Wrist Slapper In Charge for decades, going through the motions of legal prosecution with absolutely zero actual teeth or consequences. Par for the stupid, broken course.
That’s… not what you’re hearing.
Did I miss an example of when he's actually prosecuted someone successfully and then that person either wasn't sentenced at all, or immediately pardoned?
Jack Smith - A Legacy of Failure
@@jeffredfern3744 I don't even think the guy himself is a failure, he's actually successfully prosecuted a bunch of people, it's just he has to leave the sentencing up to the system being sentenced, which of course protects itself.
That's the case for the US political prosecutions.
Fraud and bribary are very hard to prove. X does Y which benefits Z. X receives renumeration from Z.
Simple?
Unfortunately the prosecution need hard evidence that Z paid X in order to do Y.
The Jan 6 is hard to prove on Trump, because it's mostly testimony.
But the documents were there, Trump was told to return them, he refused.
If a prosecution focuses on this, his money supply could end.
If a Republican is elected President in two years time, Trump will likely be pardoned. But he is nothing without his suppliers of loans.
If only giant billionaires could go to prisons like us plebians
>>If only giant billionaires could go to prisons like us plebians
LOL Ted "I'm gonna back him again and hope he doesnt dis me this time".
Jack smith looks like the season 3 " take no prisioner, tragic backstory yet soft hearted lawyer" addition to a gritty melodramatic show about the government.
Amazing that a legal explainer channel could get almost 100k views in an hour. It makes me feel some teeny tiny little glimmer of hope for society.
I mean legal eagle is clearly well off, he invested a lot in high quality editors and presentation from the inception of the channel which helped.
@Queen Zelina 👑 fair enough, not saying his videos are bad.
Which society, though? What if 75,000 of those views are from non-Americans, laughing?
@@ibahart3771 Whoops, hi there from New Zealand, the literal opposite side of the world.
@@kx7500 Honestly I liked it more when he was less flashy.
Loved that you played Green Day’s American Idiot while showing the rioters
You ROCK! Thanks for posting.
On Nixon's DOJ's resigning. Never understood why they resigned. If you want to block such unscrupulous action refuse to obey and keep the office. Resign and risk a cronie doing it anyway, stay and block any chance of it happening.
As someone appointed to a position like that, it is your legal duty to act. The only way to refuse is to give up your position. It's the same as a board member of a corporation. When board members resign, it's because they aren't willing to do what they are told by their shareholders. I was on a board where two of us stepped down because we were told to violate the law by our membership and we weren't willing to do that.
"It's always hard to determine whether it's political action or bribery."
Political action IS bribery.
Are the phone and lamp secured with blu-tac, or could they just be quite heavy?
I didn’t realize that Dane county was in the UP… of Michigan!
Whoever did the production work on this video did a great job! 🙂
Oh lol, don't think im supposed to see this yet. A nice surprise when I clicked on the Playlist tho.
XD
Considering the video was released 23 seconds ago your probably right.
My guy has an early access Pass
@@Gg-ij7li what an obnoxious bot
And you didn’t even say first
@3:30 underscoring the section with Green Day's "American Idiot". Nice touch :)
You should have brought up Audible years ago dude, but, still, confirms (after ur shred of Established Titles) ur depth of character, for a guy running a great channel, many thanks!!
That picture everyone is using for smith makes him look like the type of guy that would assassinate someone in the morning and get some fly fishing in before lunch.
Jack Smith looks like a Starfleet guy who brings Klingons and Romulans to justice.
O.K. I'm glad to know more of the details. Thank you.
"or when I am meant to be listening to family or loved ones"
That kicks me square in the relatables
Keep on making these types of videos PLEASE! I love this info ❤
The dude looks like he's about to wish me that the odds are ever in my favor.
he looks like hunter biden on a mission for vengeance
Devin, I’d recommend watching “The Escape Artist” for a British equivalent to Grisham’s story. Stars the excellent David Tennant.
David Tennant IS excellent!
That whooshing sound when the text was popping up sounds exactly like my patio door opening, I nearly shit myself 😄
When is the treason trial and can I buy tickets now?
Worry about the current president buddy
@@LooperEpic why did the current president tried to lead an insurrection against the United States based upon a lie? Did the current president take a nearly 20 million loan from North korea? Did the current president release 5,000 Taliban fighters and invite their treacherous terrorist leaders to camp david? I just need to know how you're going about this.
Ok, the Green Day music playing in the background gave me a smile and made my day. Thank you good sir.
If only everyone could risk the copyright claim
your graphics team is awesome
As someone who has never been to USA, and only seldom follows US politics, it pretty much seems like every special counsel or investigative team in the end does absolutely nothing.
They have to make enough noise to make it look like they actually considered prosecuting someone who’s rich and or powerful. The façade is arguably more important to the people that maintain the façade then to the American public who know it’s a façade.
Especially when there's nothing there.
I know he's probably wearing sweatpants out of frame, but this guy really rocks a jacket and tie...
@@democrrrracymanifest"Super 200"!
Thou the amount of news about him is frustrating you have to admit it's better to hear about him so we know what he's doing the fact he went any amount of time unchecked is horrific
It's depressing that people start forgetting how shitty he is when he's out of the limelight but it does seem like that's what happens
John Mulaney said it best. Trump is like a horse in a hospital.
No new wars, jobs for everyone, minorities were being uplifted by a party instead of being thrown money(band aids) at. What a pos he was because of mean tweets
The very fact he hasn't been handcuffed and sent to Guantanamo Bay for stealing some of the most highly sensitive government secrets is horrific if any normal person had done this it would have been thrown in a black van and never seen and heard from again. I know we have due process and all that but I mean come on.
Notice how he hasn't had a rally in a bit? He can't afford them anymore - it takes money and staff to arrange the rallies and they've abandoned him. Possible also that the cities are starting to tell him NO when they're called up about hosting.
Hi one of your legal eagle's here, love your channel, love your content. I was hoping you can do a video on monetising AI generated artwork (copyright climbs) Marquees touched on the topic slightly on his channel
Considering the extreme penalties given to mere mortals, who violate document security rules (ITAR, for example), why is the one who holds the highest clearance not being given the highest penalties for violations? Is there a way of barring him from holding a clearance level?
In English, “Out of the abundance of caution” means “Garland TOOK A YEAR practicing his punting skills. “
Sure, this time is going to be different. They're finally going to get him, for real, this time. Seriously. Really.
I hardly remembered Jack Smith from the days of prosecuting Serbian war criminals a couple of decades ago but now I am reminded of him and why he has shot to near the top of my list of most admired people on this planet.
Thank you for an informative video Hello Legal Eagle
Can we just tell him his cell is the oval office?
"All the world leaders are wearing orange jumpsuits, I swear."
Keep crying boy 👍😎
Haha, great song selection at 3minutes
I bought the judges list as a Christmas present after hearing you talk about it.
One thing that confuses me as we’ve been having so much Justice Department activity in the last five years, why is the justice department under the executive branch and not under the judicial branch? After all, while you might consider it a conflict of interest to have attorneys present in cases to judges who are in the same department as them, it seems to me that that would be much less of a conflict of interest than having people who were appointed by the president to have as part of the responsibility the requirement to investigate the present. If the logic behind having justices be appointed for life to the Supreme Court is that they would then be less political, that doesn’t it also makes sense that the justice department should have nothing to do with Congress or the president once they are put in the office?
This is easy. It would require two separate branches to actually convict someone that way. That means there is a check and balance. If the judiciary investigated, then all questions on the investigations would be conflicts of interest.
@@ronaldking1054 But that's essentially how things already work in local government. It's a matter of perspective, of course, but if Congress still controlled the purse (which it technically does, I believe; the Justice department is technically something Congress allows the executive branch to do, but doesn't have to), then there is no real conflict. Judges don't need to oversee the AG, and the Pres already appoints the judges. However, the current system allows the Pres to fire an AG, meaning they are not independent from the Pres.
If the issue is the AG having influence over judges, I think that would be easy enough to legislate. Pres still appoints, but then the AG stays unless Congress removes. Thus, judges have no sway over AG, and AG no sway over judges, therefore no COI.
@@EliotHochberg the head AG and some top positions are appointed by the president and approved by congress.. They can change every 4 years. Judges are appointed by the president and approved by congress as well but get a life term which means a single Executive can have influence over the outcomes of many trials for decades.
As it is now, only the top positions are appointed by the president and a lot of people in the Justice Department are actually staffers that have served through multiple POTUS but can be fired by potus and loose their job when potus changes. If they get too political the next potus might not even let them serve in the DOJ at all. Judges can go ham after appointed and only congress can remove them. Which getting that many people to vote to remove is a very unlikely scenario.
The judiciary is no more independent than the DOJ I would argue in many ways it is less so. Simply look at the current SCOTUS majority who one week says a 100 year precident is not historically rooted enough to be honored and the next says a 10 year precident is law of the land due to how long it has been in place. All based along political lines and there's nothing that anyone short of congress can do about it.
Lastly, what incentive would a judge have to rule against their own? Cases brought by the judicial branch tried by the judicial branch is such a huge conflict of interest. It would be worse than putting politicians in charge of deciding district lines. The pipeline is lawyers to judge. Often based on how much success a lawyer has or how many cases they have trialed in front of what level judges. The nepotism would be out of control. People would become fodder for padding judicial resumes.
@@LC-sc3enI think you meant to type 100 year “precedent”
@@EliotHochberg No, local government does not investigate and find judgments usually. There are still district courts that do not investigate a thing. There are courts that deal with probate or family issues. They have nothing to do with the police department.
Next, you are claiming that the Executive Branch is biased towards the President, but there were entire issues when Trump decided to attack the various parts of the agencies based on independence. The problem is that if there is too much dependence, in theory, the legislative branch could then impeach. The problem is that the removal of officials has become politicized in the legislative branch. This was the same point raised about the judges by another commenter.
Now, you are claiming that the judges have no sway over the AG, but in fact, they do, as they can rule against the AG or rule for the AG in terms of if they have a conflict. If such a conflict did occur, then the executive branch has no ability to deal with the conflict at all. The check on this is that the President indeed can be removed by the legislative branch, and this again has been eroded because the removal of officials has become politicized. In fact, the accepting of officials has become politicized.
the fact you played "American Idiot" by Green Day is amazing