Gen Z U.S.Edwin Meese III, the prominent conservative leader, thinker and elder statesman, continues a quarter-century formal association with The Heritage Foundation as the leading think tank’s Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Emeritus.Graham: No 'Smoking Gun' Behind Biden Impeachment Inquiry.Swisher: If SCOTUS Bans Abortion Pill The GOP Will 'Lose Everything'.Top Strategist Resigns from DeSantis-backing Super PAC.Waffle House Customer Shoots Man Who Allegedly Threatened Patrons.Car Plows into Parked SUV in Biden's Motorcade.Graham: Israel Must Accept Two-State Solution to Normalize Arab Ties.Democrat Senator Fires Staffer Who Filmed Gay Sex Escapade in Hearing Room.Poll: Trump Dominates GOP Primary with Nearly 70 Percent Support.'Tranq Tourism': Content Creators Blasted for Filming Druggies in Philly.Write to him at or follow him on Twitter. Jordan Dixon-Hamilton is a reporter for Breitbart News. Clark, No 1:23-cv-3721, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. District Judge Steve Judge Jones had a hearing on Clark’s removal motion Monday but gave no timeline for a decision after the hearing. The prosecution of the President and an AAG is a major affront to federal supremacy never before seen in the history of our country. Clark for their privileged and confidential discussions of whether and how to assert federal law enforcement authority other than this new State of Georgia v. I am not aware of any state criminal prosecution ever being brought against a President and a senior Justice Department official like Mr. Meese cited the unprecedented nature of Willis’s case against Clark, Trump, and others from the former president’s administration. I have participated as a lawyer in a wide variety of levels of governments in each office where I took an oath to support and defend the U.S. “Disagreement on legal, factual, and policy matters in the halls of the Justice Department is commonplace, just as disagreements among lawyers in private practice, in state government, and in local government are common,” Meese wrote. Meese relied on his decades’ worth of experience serving in the government to bolster Clark’s arguments. The losing side of privileged and confidential internal DOJ factual and legal disagreements cannot be subject to state law criminal prosecution on the grounds of attempted false writings without destroying the supremacy of the federal government. Meese said Georgia’s prosecution against Clark risks “destroying the supremacy of the federal government.”įinally, the idea that proposing a change of position could be a criminal attempted false statement because it is not the same as the position it proposes be changed is a far-fetched legal non sequitur. The letter then coupled that with a proposed recommendation by the Department that the conclusions Senator Ligon reached be investigated further by the Georgia Legislature, which the letter legally opined the Georgia Legislature could do consistent with the Electors Clause of the Constitution and related case law. “Read in light of the law and longstanding practice inside the DOJ, however, the draft letter was a proposed view of facts as brought out by Georgia Senator Ligon in hearings he conducted about the 2020 election,” Meese wrote, adding: Meese fought back against claims the letter Clark wrote was a false statement. Meese said it is “implicit and logically necessary that the President can also assign tasks to an AAG at his discretion.” Meese argued Clark’s actions fell solely within his authority as a “principal officer of the United States.” Under federal law, a state case may be removed to federal court if the prosecution is “for or relating to any act under color of such office.” Department of Justice had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.” The false statements charge stems from a letter Clark wrote that claimed the U.S. Meese filed a 19-page affidavit over the weekend supporting former Trump-era Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Jeffrey Clark’s bid to remove his Georgia case to federal court.Ĭlark is being charged with violating the RICO statute and attempting to commit false statements and writings. Former Reagan-era Attorney General Edwin Meese argued that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump and his top officials is a “major affront to federal supremacy never before seen in the history of our country.”
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