Smith, in a Fiery Filing, Accuses Judge Cannon of Being 'Wrong' on Trump's Trial and Threatens Her With Extraordinary Appeal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The Department of Justice, which employs Mr. Smith, writes in its own resource manual that "Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy, which should only be used in exceptional circumstances of peculiar emergency or public importance."
53% : Mr. Smith's cri de coeur takes the form of a reply to Judge Cannon's order that both he and President Trump furnish her with jury instructions in respect of the relevance of a Watergate-era statute, the Presidential Records Act.
45% : Mr. Smith maintains that the only relevant law is the Espionage Act and the various obstruction charges he has handed up.
43% : Jury instructions are the latest flashpoint between Special Counsel Jack Smith's and Judge Aileen Cannon over her stewardship of the trial of President Trump, a conflict that brings into sharp relief how the relationship between prosecutor and jurist could soon be altered by an appeal.

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