After President Donald Trump’s victory, the DOJ today has started to look into how to wind down his multiple pending cases. Former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann and MSNBC Legal Correspondent Lisa Rubin join Andrea Mitchell, Chris Jansing and Katy Tur to provide more legal analysis.
While it’s only a matter of time before Donald Trump’s federal criminal cases are gone, there’s an important distinction between the two prosecutions, which the Justice Department reportedly has been evaluating how to wind down before the president-elect takes office in January. The federal election interference case is in the trial court, after the Supreme Court granted Trump broad criminal immunity and sent the case back to U.S.
The Trump appointee tossed it on the grounds that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed, in a decision that prosecutors say “conflicts with an otherwise unbroken course of decisions, including by the Supreme Court, that the Attorney General has such authority, and it is at odds with widespread and longstanding appointment practices in the Department of Justice and across the government.” As the DOJ’s brief illustrates, the issue pending in the documents case goes beyond Trump.
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