Opinion: End the criminal cases against Trump
With the election now over, the courts have to decide quickly whether to move forward with the criminal cases against Donald Trump. Although this idea will pain my fellow Democrats, all of the cases should be abandoned.
The federal cases are history. Mr. Smith plans to resign with other members of his team before Mr. Trump takes office in January, according to. He is now trying to determine how best to wind down the cases, which accuse Mr. Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election and illegally possessing classified documents after he left office.
In both cases, the prosecutors’ legal theories were and are unusual, to say the least. Their premise is that financial shenanigans and political strong arming in hard-fought battles for the presidency are serious felonies that can be pursued by local prosecutors in local courts. But these are fundamentally federal, not state, concerns.
The New York case was brought by a prosecutor elected in Manhattan, where more than 80 percent of voters cast their ballots for Ms. Harris; that is also where the jury was drawn from. The Georgia case was brought in Fulton County, where more than 70 percent of voters cast their ballots for Ms. Harris. That is where the prosecutor was elected, and it is where the jurors would be drawn from.
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