Aileen Cannon Hands Jack Smith Ammunition in Trump Case

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Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann said he expected the special counsel to appeal the judge's ruling on means of a crime.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case has been criticized for one of her recent rulings, which legal experts suggest will be appealed by special counsel Jack Smith.

Those are not what are called elements of the crime,' Weissmann said.He continued: 'The elements have to be unanimous. Sometimes there's discussion about what is or isn't an element, and that's important, and there has to be unanimity. But it is black-letter law that unanimity does not apply to means.'And yet the thing that I just read is what I would call white-letter law, which is wrong.

 

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