As the machinations continue between Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and former President Donald Trump over Bragg’s allegation that Trump broke multiple federal campaign finance laws, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Committee asserts that Bragg lacks the authority to go after Trump.
If true, the development makes Bragg look even more like a partisan hack than the TDS-riddled prosecutor has made himself look, assuming that’s possible.
As reported by Just the News, legal expert Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, argues that Bragg is going after Trump for alleged federal election crimes that are not within his jurisdiction.
No local state prosecutor has the authority to enforce federal campaign finance crimes in the first place. There’s just nothing from a factual and legal standpoint to this case. But I don’t think this prosecutor cares about that. What he’s counting on is that he’s in Manhattan.
Manhattan is one of the most liberal jurisdictions in the country. I think he believes that he can get a liberal jury to convict Trump, no matter what the facts are and no matter what the law is.
Oopsie, Alvin — assuming von Spakovsky is correct.
Von Spakovsky also told Just the News that if Trump is found guilty of any of the indictments he faces, the former president could then ask an appellate judge to reverse the decision because Bragg illegally pursued the case.
He can appeal and try to convince an appellate court that this was everything from a malicious prosecution to the fact that it wasn’t actually a violation of the law. A lot of this is going to depend on the judges and the tenure of the judges in the state court system.
And I think that’s what Bragg is counting on because his case is so weak, so nonexistent, that even folks on the left side of the political aisle — including prosecutors — have all basically said there’s just nothing to this case.
Lock Up Bragg !!!! Then TRUMP can BRAGG !!!!!
That fat Efer.