Former special counsel Jack Smith warns of an institutional crisis and political purges at the DOJ during his first major television interview.

During a television broadcast on Thursday, former federal special counsel Jack Smith expressed deep concern regarding the current state of American jurisprudence. Appearing on the MS NOW program hosted by Nicolle Wallace, the former prosecutor described the current political landscape as an extraordinary threat to the nation’s legal foundations. He characterized the ongoing institutional shift as a unique challenge, calling it an assault “different in kind and scope to anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.” This marked his initial public media appearance since stepping down from his federal post in January 2025.

  • baronvonj@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    How could Smith possibly have succeeded when the judges, up to and including the SCOTUS majority, were ignoring the Constitution with their rulings on the 14th amendment and immunity to protect Trump? How does any of that translate to Smith doing a bad job? How was Smith supposed to go over the SCOTUS rulings? Biden failed here by nominating, and then keeping, Garland as AG to begin with. Biden failed by not pushing for judicial reform including the size of the SCOTUS bench and impeachment of corrupt justices. None of those things are Smith’s fault, though, because he had no mechanism to anything about any of it.

    I’m literally in this thread advocating for more DSA-aligned candidates running in Democratic primaries to push out the ineffective old guard neoliberals, but somehow me not blaming Smith for Biden’s failures has you bleating about that I’m a pro-Biden/AIPAC/MAGA cultist. You just don’t come across as a serious person.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      you bleating about that I’m a pro-Biden/AIPAC/MAGA cultist.

      You are literally asking for a performance where what you want me to say “Jack Smith did a good job” when they did, in fact, fail at their job. That’s what we evaluate people on. Not on whether or not they “tried their goodest”, but on the outcomes which result from their actions, which for Smith is bupkis, denada, goose-egg.

      I’m not evaluating you on what you said somewhere else. You put words which position yourself squarely inside the Blue-MAGA cult here.