Jack Smith has refused to let his foot off the gas in his political persecution of Donald Trump.
And now he is building a strategy that would greatly aid Joe Biden in his re-election effort.
But Jack Smith just got obliterated by the state of Florida after he made this one unconstitutional request in court.
Jack Smith aims for a court ordered muzzle for Donald Trump
Special Counsel Jack Smith has been getting beat down in court by the judge nonstop, primarily thanks to his constant prosecutorial overreach.
The bench has repeatedly noted the extrajudicial practices used by Smith, disrespecting the justice system just to go after former President Donald Trump.
But despite the obstacles he keeps creating and tripping over, Smith and his rogue team are refusing to give up on pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in court.
Smith recently filed a request that Judge Aileen Cannon issue a gag order to Trump in order to prevent him from making public comments on the case.
Smith argued that he was concerned that Trump would make statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case.”
Meanwhile, according to an early court filing, everyone learned that the FBI had actually been given deadly force authorization and a greenlight for lockpicking for their surprise raid on Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022.
Trump pointed out that the FBI was “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”
It is obvious that Smith is less interested in the safety of law enforcement.
The strategy that he is pursuing is an unconstitutional attempt to restrict the speech of the leading candidate for President of the United States.
Smith’s case is purely politically motivated, especially considering that it is laden with debate, not just in the Florida courthouse, but in the public square as well.
That is why many allies to Donald Trump have been stepping up to defend the former President.
24 state Attorneys General file a brief opposing gag order request
24 Republican Attorneys General just recently filed an amicus brief requesting that Judge Cannon deny Smith’s gag order, which they identify as flatly unconstitutional.
Led by Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody, they argued that the gag order would be a massive violation to his First Amendment rights.
“Once again, we are witnessing a prosecutor seek to keep the presumptive Republican nominee for President from speaking in the midst of an election,” Moody argued.
#BREAKING: Florida files lawsuit disputing pursued gag order on former President Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith in classified documents case@AGAshleyMoody: “The First Amendment, at its core, is designed to protect political speech, and I along with my colleagues will not…
— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) June 17, 2024
“The First Amendment, at its core, is designed to protect political speech, and I along with my colleagues will not stand idly by and watch the Biden administration trample the free speech of a Florida citizen,” she continued.
Joining Moody in this fight are the Attorneys General from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
The brief sent in by the Florida Attorney General points out that Smith’s filed request is extremely broad and vague over what speech exactly he wants restricted.
“The federal government asks the district court to gag President Trump from making ‘statements that pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution of [his] case,’” she identified.
“But what are those statements?” inquired Moody. “The federal government does not explain.”
Smith’s vagueness is clearly a ploy to leave the door open to restricting as much speech by Trump as possible – that the judge is willing to allow for.
But Moody argued that the importance and value of free speech, especially during the political process that Trump is currently engaged in.
“‘Political speech is the primary object of First Amendment protection and the lifeblood of a self-governing people…,’” added the Florida Attorney General. “Yet special prosecutor Jack Smith, on behalf of the United States, asks this Court to curtail that right by ordering a prior restraint on President Trump’s constitutionally protected speech.”
“Such an order is presumptively unconstitutional… If granted, this request would prevent the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States from speaking out against ‘the prosecution and the criminal trial process that seek to take away his liberty,’” concluded Moody.
Jack Smith is serving as a useful political tool for Merrick Garland, who has his eyes set on taking out former President Donald Trump.
But it seems that Garland and Smith are going to have a difficult time trying to accomplish that goal with Ashley Moody and her team of fellow Republican Attorneys General fighting back.