Commenter “T J Olson” writes: Federal defense attorney and aggressive Con Law advocate, Robert Barnes, has an unexpected take on the Deep State’s further engagement with ex-Prez Trump. He believes that it wasn’t egregious overreaching. Instead, he argues that indications … Continue reading →
Margot Cleveland speculates: NONE of the three criminal statutes used to justify the search require materials to be “classified”… Espionage Act’s plain language does not require material related to “national defense” to be classified. (Preliminary research confirms my reading but … Continue reading →
One thing the Mar-A-Lago raid has driven home is that the left truly believes – and they think much of the general public will agree – that what ordinarily would be allowed most presidents and ex-presidents is not to be … Continue reading →
William Jacobson writes this about the warrant and inventory: The affidavits supporting the warrant have not been unsealed, and it’s unclear whether Trump would have a copy. The inventory does not give any indication what the records were, other than … Continue reading →
Something like this raid would have to have been done with the utmost transparency and documentation, as well as objective observers, if it’s done at all. But none of that was present. Here’s today’s news: FBI agents who searched former … Continue reading →
From Newsweek: The raid on Mar-a-Lago was based largely on information from an FBI confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents, two … Continue reading →
Ann Althouse writes: “We have full access to everything. We can go everywhere.” That was the repeated statement of the 3 DOJ lawyers — who were described as displaying an “arrogant” demeanor — who were present during the Mar-a-Lago raid, … Continue reading →
Two of Trump’s lawyers were busy giving interviews yesterday. Here they are: It seems that these raids were irregular in a number of ways beyond the obvious fact that the target was an ex-president and leading opponent of the current … Continue reading →
Here’s Andrew C. McCarthy on yesterday’s Mar-A-Largo raid: There’s a game prosecutors play. Let’s say I suspect X committed an armed robbery, but I know X is dealing drugs. So, I write a search-warrant application laying out my overwhelming probable … Continue reading →
William Jacobson thinks the goal is to provoke: This is a provocation. They are trying to get a reaction that allows a further crackdown. See, In Re J6. It’s also a provocation to get Trump to declare his candidacy for … Continue reading →
…and have been for some time. Here’s what happened today: Former President Trump on Monday said that his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida is “under siege” by a “large group” of FBI agents. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a … Continue reading →
Andrew C. McCarthy is one of those writers who’s sometimes very very good and sometimes not at all good. You never know exactly which McCarthy is going to turn up, except that he tends to be good on anything to … Continue reading →