Comment on Romanian oligarch hired Hunter Biden to influence US policy, special counsel says
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 month agoDid judge Cannon decide that special counsels were actually illegal? So why do we care? And if we do care about this special counsel shouldn’t we also care about the one charging trump about all those classified documents?
No, that isn’t what she said at all. Not all special counsels are illegal. It is that Jack Smith was not appointed properly that made it illegal.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And that way, without Senate confirmation, is the same way in which David Weiss was appointed special counsel in the Hunter Biden case.
So, are you defending/citing the work of an illegal appointee? And if so, shouldn’t we also care about Jack Smith’s charges?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 month ago
David Weiss was appointed legal.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you see as the difference that made one appointment legal and the other illegal? (Other than one is investigating a Biden and the other is investigating trump.)
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yes I see the differences. One was a government employee appointed and confirmed in the proper channels. The other was not.
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