Jack Smith s New Trump Indictment Sniffs at the Supreme Court – WSJ

The reality is that the immediate fate of this case is in the hands of the voting public in November. Mr. Smith knows this. If Mr. Trump loses the election, the special counsel will have all the time in the world to make his case under President Kamala Harris. Ms. Harris could follow Gerald Ford s example of pardoning Richard Nixon after Watergate, as a way of putting an ugly episode firmly into the past. This would be best for the country, though it s hard to imagine Ms. Harris doing it.

But if Mr. Trump wins and returns to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, the federal cases against him will no doubt be dismissed by the next Attorney General. Is Mr. Smith hoping to prevent that outcome by slamming this superseding indictment on the table barely two months before Election Day?

In any case, the more that the special counsel tries to race the clock, the more it bolsters Mr. Trump s argument that politics is what s really motivating him. Lawfare is still at work.

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Doing what Mr. Smith is doing probably seems like a better idea when you’re thirty-five than when you’re sixty-five.