These political indictments are the real threat to our democracy.
Smith was given 60 agents and other government workers to find anything to charge against Trump. Fearing a mixed jury in Florida would not find him guilty, he came up with this January 6 charge just to get a trial in DC. That will have a jury and judge that will be similar to the furthest left members of our forum. They will find him guilty of anything that is put before them.
True, the Supreme Court will toss out the conviction just like it did with his conviction of the governor of Virginia but that will be after the election. It will have served its purpose.
During impeachment, Republicans were saying impeachment wasn’t the proper process for what happened. They maintained that the justice system was the proper forum.
(a) For Prejudice. Upon the defendant’s motion, the court must transfer the proceeding against that defendant to another district if the court is satisfied that so great a prejudice against the defendant exists in the transferring district that the defendant cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial there.”