“Jack Smith Owes Us an Explanation,” Jack Goldsmith? No, Jack Goldsmith, YOU owe us an explanation!
Yo, Harvard! Nice Learned Hand Professor of “Law” ya got there!
Damn right you do, Jack Goldsmith, Mr. Learned Hand1 Professor of Law at Harvard University! Why, Jack Goldsmith, are you writing this nitpicky bullshit takedown of special prosecutor Jack Smith’s recent legal brief outlining in detail the charges against Donald Trump arising from the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and the evidence backing them up, which he filed with the judge presiding over the case, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who released a redacted version of the brief, over the objections of Trump’s lawyers? Why is it so wrong for American citizens to learn about Donald Trump’s unprecedented assault on our liberties almost four years after the fact?
Gee, Mr. Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University Jack Goldsmith, aren’t you the same Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University who “warned” us in August of 2023 that “The Prosecution of Trump May Have Terrible Consequences”? And followed that steamin’ hunk o’ disengenuosity up with another steamin’ hunk o’ disengenuosity, “More on How to Think About the Costs of the Trump Election Fraud Prosecution,” whose very headline was, well, a steamin’ hunk o’ disengenuosity, because Trump wasn’t being accused of “election fraud”, but rather sedition! Bad Jack just cannot stop lying!
Ever since Smith brought the charges against Trump, the Supreme Court has been doing its level best to prevent Trump, the greatest criminal in American history, from being brought to justice. And Jack Goldsmith has been cheering them on every step of the way! Oy, the hypocrisy! Some of the most “learned” legal “scholars” in the land want the biggest criminal in American history to walk! Go figure!
Afterwords
Jack Goldsmith first rose to “fame” back in 2004 when he resigned as head of the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice with the Bush administration, more or less in protest over the Bush administration’s use of torture. Now he’s desperately trying to ensure the re-election of a man who applauds torture, who pardons men either convicted of or facing charges for murder, on the grounds that American soldiers have the right to kill as many damn foreigners as they please.
Back in August 2023 I belabored Ugly Jack’s ugly deceits “explaining” why we shouldn’t punish Trump for his heinous crimes here.
UPDATE
Over at the “Just Security blog, NYU law professors Andrew Weissman and Ryan Goodman provide a lawyerly take down Goldman’s hypocritical attacks on Smith’s new statement in their post Refuting the Latest Baseless Attacks Against Special Counsel Jack Smith. Thank you, professors!
Learned Hand served as a federal district court judge from 1909 to 1961. Despite his “lowly” rank, he had an enormous reputation. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter was always pressuring Franklin Roosevelt to appoint Hand to the Supreme Court, exactly the wrong tactic to use with FDR. Earlier and later presidents may have balked at giving Hand even an appellate court position for the same reason.