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Opinion: Presidents not immune from law
By Robert Wise
Thu,12/14/23-4:15PM , 152 Reads 8,194 Statewide
Consider the following statements:

"Do you not know that I am above the law?" Charles I to the Duke of Somerset (1640’s): Macaulay’s The History of England;

“When the President does it, it’s not illegal.” Nixon to David Frost (interview 1977):
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Opinion: Moving towards a conviction
By Robert Wise
Tue,11/21/23-11:15AM , 234 Reads 10,565 Statewide
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is moving steadily ahead to put Donald Trump on trial March 4, 2024 in a DC courtroom. The coming trial, before federal district Judge Tanya Chutkan, will address Mr. Trump’s use of election falsehoods to stop, delay or change Congress’ count of the 2020 electoral vote on January 6, 2021.
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Opinion: Willful blindness
By Robert Wise
Wed,10/11/23-12:41PM , 180 Reads 10,985 Statewide
Mr. Trump’s claim to have won the 2020 election, “and frankly, by a lot,” friends argued to me across a lunch table in Jackson are “just his opinion… free speech.” Sure, I said, but Prosecutor Jack Smith took care in his election interference indictment to explain Mr. Trump’s criminal problem is not by itself speech.
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Opinion: Are indictments all political?
By Robert Wise
Fri,09/08/23-12:54PM , 148 Reads 9,610 Statewide
I recently asked a long time Jackson lawyer what he thought of the Trump indictments. My friend replied: “I think it’s all political.” I didn’t want to get into it with a friend, but I have reflected and have 10 questions. If it is “all political”, then:
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